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spending more time with my two amazing 6-year-olds, since they have been patiently waiting for mommy to “finish her homework.” Gretchen Elyse Nagel – Bachelor of Arts in German, minor in religion Why PLU? I chose PLU as a transfer student from the University of Oregon because I valued the warmth of the smaller campus community and the dedication to international involvement and travel. I saw opportunities within that smaller community to build meaningful, impactful relationships with both faculty and

passionately backs that fight. “Classics is the foundation of our knowledge, our history, our philosophy and how we make sense of the world we live in now,” said Dobyns, who graduated in 2001 and credits his self-directed film major and his overall professional success to the classics at PLU. “Without that foundation, we have no grounding in why the world is the way it is.” O’Brien and division leaders across the university are now tasked with responding to those preliminary recommendations, part of an

Pacific Northwest and Mexico, so to go and experience a new place is … just a delight.” Kaja Gjelde-Bennett Kaja Gjelde-Bennett ‘17, mentored through the grant application process by Storfjell and Call, chose to pursue her Fulbright opportunity after graduating from PLU. She enrolled at the prestigious Arctic University of Norway (UiT) in Tromsø to pursue a Master of Philosophy in Indigenous Studies in the hopes of realizing her professional dream — advancing efforts for indigenous language

tours were fantastic! The German program was so open and friendly! The study away opportunities were endless! Even with all of that I won’t say I knew at first-sight that I wanted to go to PLU, but the more I though about it the more I wanted to come here, and I sure am glad I did! My PLU experience: As a first-year it took me about five seconds to make my first, and now one of my best friends here at PLU. I lived in the German wing (in Hong Hall) my first year which was the best decision I have

more, says Boyd. “The housing market didn’t keep up with demand, and public policy didn’t respond adequately,” she explains. During college, Boyd grew “immensely curious about how people became homeless and disappointed by our culture’s willingness to tolerate it.” While majoring in philosophy she solidified her ethic of service and began getting involved. Boyd’s career started in direct services, continued in policy and law, and she now serves as the chief executive officer at Bellwether Housing

organization’s commitment to research and education. In addition to having 88 neighborhood branches and the largest circulation in the country, NYPL is the world’s largest public research library and works extensively with New York City Public Schools. “It’s actually three different types of library all rolled into one,” Bannon says. “There’s nothing like it.” NYPL is a world-class collecting institution, but its access philosophy is different from many peer organizations with similar collections. “It’s

the size of the Pantheon in Italy, with intense curiosity at the variety of the world in Tanzania. As a Humanities major, you will spend your life in this building. Eventually, you will have stories from each classroom. For example, when you came to love philosophy in 220, when your professor told a joke that caused you to blush crimson in 219, when you bared small parts of your soul in 211A. You will notice when a flyer is taken down or put up on a bulletin board, and you will know exactly where

the liberal arts—A basic understanding of history, language, art, religion, culture, ethics, philosophy and science is a foundation for all more specialized knowledge, c.f., PLU’s ROTC program. Learning and research within community—Nobody pursues an education alone. We were meant to collaborate with each other. It’s built into our DNA. Even an online course assumes there’s someone on the other end helping to lead and guide us while we study in front of our laptop. The intrinsic value of the whole

intellectual rigor as it was about religion. With his fellow reformer, Philip Melanchton, Luther established the German pattern of secondary and tertiary education upon which the American system was modeled in the later nineteenth century. Professor Luther’s Reform of both faith and education came about as a result of his asking troubling questions, for which he got into trouble. Luther and Melanchthon have shown us that colleges and universities are, and must remain, places to ask troubling questions, to

: That makes a lot of sense. I think it depends on what this question is asking. It’s innovative because of the ways in which we have been taught to think in the systems we’ve built. And the systems are very cleverly hidden by white supremacy. Jen: Exactly. Here’s a great example: A philosophy faculty member gave a talk years ago on whether faucets are racist. He was looking at these automatic faucets that don’t pick up darker skin tones*. So a touchless faucet is an innovation, right? But it’s