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generosity of an anonymous donor deeply invested in PLU’s commitment to global education and international partnerships, Wells and her peers returned to Namibia as seasoned teachers, four of them national-board certified. Each teaching pair focused their dialogue on a pedagogical issue they faced—such as learner engagement, classroom management or social-emotional learning. But nothing can quite replace seeing these strategies in action, Wells said. When Eva Dumeni, a first-grader teacher at M. H. Greeff

she normally wouldn’t take. She enrolled in Land Management and Conservation Biology, which she says broadened her view. “It helped me understand that with science and human bodies, nothing is a closed loop,” she recalls. “The way we work with the environment, the world and other organisms affects how we function as humans.” A holistic worldview has served Ash well. When diagnosed with long COVID her sophomore year, Ash used the experience to frame her capstone project, “Exercise is Medicine

Foundation, where he is responsible for facilitating business-driven strategy for IT solutions through the integration of Project Management and Organizational Change Management. He has previously worked at Enstar Group/Paladin Managed Care Services, the City of Tacoma and Russell Investments. He teaches Information Systems courses to undergraduate and MBA students at PLU.Can you share a very brief synopsis of what you talk will be about? Chavez: I’m going to talk about the 5 million undocumented Latino

, from museums to hikes, and we could choose what would best benefit our personal topic. They wanted us to gain a lot of information by immersing ourselves in the culture and meeting with locals. So, I spoke to many naturalists and residents about land management and conservation efforts throughout the region. We’d typically be out and about all day in groups of 3 or 4. Finally, phase three is still underway, and this has been the writing process. We had a rough draft due last month, went over it

neighborhood. In 1997, U.S. Bank merged with First Bank System in Minneapolis, intending to take all of the trust assets back to Minneapolis. “I said ‘No thank you. I’m not going back to the Midwest,’” Benson said. Instead he created his own company and began managing money for some of his clients from U.S. Bank. During the next six years, Benson Associates became a very successful investment management company. In 2003, just after Dale joined the PLU Board of Regents, Benson Associates was sold to Wells

maintained and broadened. “Part of it has been careful management,” Anderson said in explaining the university’s growth and success at pushing towards its academic and economic goals. “Part of that has been just good fortune…simply put, we are able to focus on what we do best. Read Previous OTR Read Next Dreaming is important COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS

graduate school at Portland State University to gain her master’s degree in education with a concentration in counseling. She then went on to earn certification in personal management from Portland State in 1986. As one of her closest friends and PLU college roommate for three years, Nowadnick said, “we knew early on that [psychology] was her first love.” After graduating from Portland State, Wold worked in the counseling field for six years, helping kids and teens who had been sexually abused or had

Professor Giovanna Urdangarain (Hispanic Studies). Discussion will also be led by the student organization Network for Peacebuilding and Conflict Management. After attending the conference, both McCracken and Correa will attend the Peace Scholars program in Oslo for seven weeks during the summer. The students will be spending time at the Nansen Center for Peace and Dialogue in Lillehammer, where they will be participating in dialogue sessions with students from the Balkans and the Middle East. The

Office; Parkland community organizations; and representatives from PLU’s Art Department, Sustainability Department, Center for Community Engagement and Service, ASPLU, Facilities Management, Auxiliary Services, Office of Finance and Operations, G.R.E.A.N., Students of the Left, Office of Residential Life and Wang Center for Global Education. And painters—lots of painters. “What’s been most enjoyable is meeting community members and students and hearing their stories,” said Refaei. In the end, the

relationship between human communities and between people and the Earth. “As a black person, I have been living it my entire life,” Finney said. “Even though I’ve been fortunate enough to do work around these issues, I may leave my computer in my office at night, but I can’t take my skin off at night and put it away.” Finney is a professor in Environmental Science, Policy and Management at the College of Natural Resources at the University of California-Berkeley. Her book, Black Faces, White Spaces