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  • Academic EndowmentsPLU’s faculty and academic programs are nationally and internationally recognized for their quality and distinctiveness. Great progress has been made in bringing a global emphasis more broadly to the academic, curricular and programmatic areas of the university. That work can be accelerated through the funding of endowments with a particular global emphasis, including: curriculum development, expanding study-abroad opportunities, creating more student-faculty research

  • 253.535.7415 www.plu.edu/career career@plu.edu Academic Internship/Cooperative Education courses are unique opportunities for “hands-on” job experience with directed academic learning. Students gain an appreciation of the relationship between theory and application, and learn firsthand about new developments in a particular field.   An academic internship/cooperative education experience enables students to gain skills and competencies, apply academic learning to the workplace, and receive

  • Letters of Recommendation The main focus of the Pre-Health Sciences Advising Team is to individually mentor students and alumni through the process of applying to professional programs in the health sciences. With the advent of centralized application processing services such as AMCAS, AACOMAS, CASPA, or ADEA AADSAS, and changing admission requirements, it is no longer expeditious for the team to compile and merge letters into a composite letter. Typically, letter writers are faculty, work

  • Letters of Recommendation The main focus of the Pre-Health Sciences Advising Team is to individually mentor students and alumni through the process of applying to professional programs in the health sciences. With the advent of centralized application processing services such as AMCAS, AACOMAS, CASPA, or ADEA AADSAS, and changing admission requirements, it is no longer expeditious for the team to compile and merge letters into a composite letter. Typically, letter writers are faculty, work

  • research resources. Know that not every item can be obtained through ILL.JargonWords or phrases that are unique to a particular field of study. These words tend to have different meanings in different fields.Journal/PeriodicalA publication that is released on a regular basis, which contains a number of articles about a specific topic.KeywordsWords that represent the main concepts in a research question or search query.Literature reviewA section of an academic article that provides an overview of the

  • members should be disqualified in a particular case. Such alternates shall be chosen in order of highest votes received in the election. These ten are elected to a term of one calendar year beginning on October 15 and ending on October 14 of the following year. Cases still in process at the end of the stipulated calendar year will be completed by the committee assigned to that case. For the period beginning October 15, 2023 and ending October 14, 2024, the members of the Formal Dismissal Hearing

  • love of History started early, listening at the dinner table to her parents’ wide-ranging conversations on civil rights protests and other 1960s events. (It turns out this was a memory we both shared – only instead of the Pacific North West, my dinner-table eavesdropping took place on a dairy farm in south-eastern Australia!). Beth found herself attracted to the human stories of the past – especially, she says, to questions of authority — although answers were often lacking in the monotonous, dry

  • -graduation plans? I’ll get a Master of Public Health in Epidemiology. I am specifically interested in global public health and plan to focus on the Hispanic population. Gaining a broader understanding of world events was important. Hispanic studies is my second major, as I hope to focus on the Hispanic community, in public health. My grandfather came here from Mexico as a migrant farmworker with my great-grandmother and his brothers and sisters. He never had the opportunity to get past a third-grade

  • On Exhibit: LGBTQ+ Authors and their Works October is LGBTQIA+ History Month. While we encourage engaging with these topics year-round, October is a special time to reflect on the history of LGBTQIA+ movements, moments, and iconic figures. In this exhibit, the Center for DJS, in collaboration with the PLU Library, is choosing… October 5, 2022

  • dog I walked to earn money while in grad school, Cardigan was a combination of my two best friends when growing up and Ava was based on a photograph of my younger sister. “ “Leslye’s writing is lush and gorgeous; she blends reality with a bit of magic to create literature that is both cerebral and earthy,” say Zitron. “Her characters are complex and challenge readers to think about them beyond ‘I liked or didn’t like them.’” While Walton’s vocational focus at PLU was preparing to become a teacher