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Laila’s Story – Trinidad & Tobago Social Work (Women’s and Gender Studies and Peace Corps Prep minors) – Class of 2019 What she would like other students to know: My time in Trinidad and Tobago was by far my most challenging and rewarding semester during my time at PLU. I experienced so much, both good and bad, and not only learned a lot about a beautiful new country, but also about my self. As a white person traveling to a country of black and brown people with a complicated and painful

in the lab measures a liquid into a graduated cylinder.] Prof. Auman: Our faculty members work really hard to provide a high-quality experience for our students while also providing them the support that they need to be successful here. [video: Prof. Yakelis’s voice comes in over clips. A sweeping shot of PLU’s campus on a sunny day. A professor writes on a whiteboard in blue dry erase marker. Students seated at tables facing each other discuss class material.] Prof. Yakelis: Here at PLU, you get

major in college!). While waiting to go to orchestra class in middle school, I used to make fun of singers because they would make silly sounds and make crazy faces out in the hallway. Now I am a singer and have made silly noises while making funny faces warming up in taxis, public bathrooms, random stairways and even outside in the woods when no practice rooms were available. I bet innocent passersby thought I was a crazy lady. I am a lyric mezzo-soprano and have performed recitals, concerts and

violation or receives an additional 3 Performance Progression Alert (PPA) for minor violations, the student will be dismissed from the School of Nursing. Each situation is individually evaluated, and permission to continue and/or repeat is not automatically granted. Generally, students will remain on probation for one calendar year from the date of the RAP review. Graduate students must maintain a grade point average of 3.0 in all graduate work. Graduate- level credit will not be given for any class in

Kirsty Palmer Kirsty at the West Antarctic Ice Sheet divide PLU Class of 2013 Global Studies and Hispanic Studies Double-Major Studied away in Valparaiso, Chile Current: Steward at McMurdo Station, Antarctica When Kirsty Palmer was busy studying towards her degrees in Global Studies and Hispanic Studies at PLU, she had no idea that she would one day live and work on Antarctica. What you or I see as the largest gathering of ice in the world, Kirsty sees as home, and has for the past year and a

Semester, may I take a summer course?Students who are newly-admitted for the following Fall Semester may take a summer course.  However, you must contact the Office of Admission on your intent to enroll in a summer course prior to your matriculation in the Fall Semester. Contact the Office of Admission at 253.535.7151, by fax at 253.535.5136, or by email at admission@plu.edu. Can I take a summer class as a community member?Community members are welcome to attend PLU courses! In the summer, please

removed once the overdue material is returned. If PLU receives an invoice from the lending library for the replacement of overdue material, those fees will be passed along to the patron.  There are no refunds. Why won’t ILL order textbooks or course texts?Most libraries do not borrow and lend textbooks. Also, items can not be kept for an entire term. ILL is available to provide supplementary materials you might need for class-related research, but which are not owned by the PLU library.  Purchasing

gowns make their grand entrance as Pharrell Williams’ song “Happy” fills PLU’s Scandinavian Center. “Let’s get that applause going,” says a smiling Jonathan Jackson ’12, as he starts clapping for the Class of 2019 Palmer Scholars. Jackson, a member of the PLU Alumni Board and a current MBA student at PLU, is executive director of Palmer Scholars. The organization was founded in 1983 by Tacoma businessman R. Merle Palmer to help low-income students of color in Pierce County achieve their dreams of a

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good days and bad days within the minutia. On bad days, she reminds herself to acknowledge what she can’t see — something she learned navigating her own educational journey. “You see these kids sitting in desks every day, and there’s not always a visible explanation for why they are the way they are,” she said. “No one wants to fail.” That understanding came in handy on one of the bad days, when a student swore at her in class. She wrote him up and kicked him out into the hallway. “I was very