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earn their master’s degree and a Washington state teaching certificate. “I feel like all the professors really understood what it was like in the classroom,” said Cook, who teaches at Baker Middle School in Tacoma. “Education changes, students change, demographics change. But they stay current on best practices and research for the youth we are currently educating.” That’s by design, says Mary Jo Larsen, assistant dean of the university’s education department. “We are (primarily) face to face, not

that is huge,” she said. “Sometimes as things change in the world, organizations change. The student focus is still alive and well and strong. I would come back again.” Well, she already has — sort of. “I can’t get any more degrees,” she quipped. “This is the closest I can get.”

normally see in the community very often,” Larsen said. Adequate medical care for inmates is a constitutional right. But for Larsen, it’s more than that. “I get a direct, daily sense that I make a difference,” he said. “What I do now is right in front of me, it’s almost immediate all the time.” And that feeling was precisely what Larsen was after when he made a midlife career change more than a decade ago. Larsen, who studied evolution and avian ecology at The Evergreen State College, worked as a

end of a year, graduate students earn their master’s degree and a Washington state teaching certificate. “I feel like all the professors really understood what it was like in the classroom,” said Cook, who teaches at Baker Middle School in Tacoma. “Education changes, students change, demographics change. But they stay current on best practices and research for the youth we are currently educating.” That’s by design, says Mary Jo Larsen, assistant dean of the university’s education department. “We

world. “The fear and sadness cannot be adequately expressed,” Boers wrote. “We are so sorry for the lives lost, thankful to be safe, and hopeful that tonight might be transformational in some way, that I, we, might do something to change things.” Globally, Pacific Lutheran University alumni such as Boers are coming face to face with the international conflicts that are defining the modern era. Some by accident, others by choice. Service amid war Dom Calata ’08, a military brat who followed in his

prohibit racial and gender preferences by state and local governments). The campus climate changed during my time at PLU because my peers and I chose to change it. Lou Vargas ’12: When speaking of PLU climate and culture, my memories bring me back to my first-year experience. It was certainly difficult for an immigrant of color like myself to acclimate with my peers who were mostly white. And not just any white — privileged white. The kind of white that didn’t recognize privilege. Their humor was

will be starting a Masters of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia. I will be specializing in natural resource management planning in Indigenous contexts, and will be finding ensembles and other opportunities to continue playing lots of music!”  

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bodies, all equally valued, is demonstrated through many individual courses taught across the curriculum and strong support through the Center for Diversity Justice and Sustainability, Campus Ministry, Veterans Affairs, International Education, and Office of Accessibility and Accommodation. Care for the earth is honored through Environmental Studies and through PLU’s commitments to sustainability in buildings, waste management and recycling, composting, and its long time membership in the Association