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it will fit into their life after college, said Jessica Holden, SIL graduate assistant and co-planner of the retreat. During the 28-hour retreat, students participated in small group discussions led by faculty, staff and student leaders. The group discussions typically built on ideas presented by a movie or a panel of speakers. One of the panels included Greenaway, recent graduate Jason Schonau-Taylor and ASPLU president Carl Pierce. The three discussed their experiences at PLU that led them to

you’re over 18. If you’re not yet registered, do it now! You can’t just sign up on Nov. 3 and vote the next day. Now that the Oct. 4 deadline to register to vote online or by mail has passed, you have until Oct. 20 to register to vote in person (read: you have to literally walk into an office) at your county auditor’s office. Refrain from dressing up your animals at home or the PLU squirrels and sticking an “I Will Vote” sign in front of them. Squirrels are cute, but squirrels can’t vote. And they

recruit, prepare and retain STEM teachers in a more inclusive way.”The scholarships, dispersed to qualifying seniors and teacher candidates in the MAE program over the next five years, will ideally target students looking at careers who plan to work locally — creating a pipeline of successful, diverse educators that feeds back into the South Puget Sound school districts.  “We hope that it will be able to remove some financial barriers for those students who are interested in teaching but may not think

have a place where they can go and talk. When and where do you meet?  Stuen first floor lounge, usually in the afternoons. The exact time changes based on the semester but this semester it’s been on Wednesdays at 6 once or twice a month.  How can students get involved? Follow us on Instagram @plu_neurodiversityclub and join our discord (the link is in our Instagram bio). You can also email snc@plu.edu with questions.  Read Previous Growing into her own: Sarah Davis ’23 discovers her passion for

masters in journalism from Emerson College. Still, with all these academic credentials behind her, Valerius remembers turning away from an acting career because “I thought I wasn’t pretty enough.” Black women are also conditioned from a very young age to fit into a certain role, she added. There are certain roles, both socially and professionally for men and women in black culture. “We are conditioned on what a woman buys or doesn’t buy, and to wear high heels and look like Barbies. For the media

deferred gift to PLU through her will. She knew she could help PLU continue to have long-term financial stability, not only after she graduated, but into perpetuity. “It just made sense to me,” Foss said. “I don’t want my degree at PLU to lose its value.” Members of the Heritage Society include those who have committed to one or more of the following deferred gifts: bequest, charitable remainder trust, charitable gift annuity, life insurance, gift of residence or farm with a retained life estate, or

October 22, 2010 Student production offers musical varieties By Kari Plog ’11 Junior Julia Stockton is putting her spin on a longtime theater tradition this month, when Pacific Lutheran University hosts the annual student production “Night of Musical Theatre” from Oct. 28 to 30. “The way it has grown in the past has been really, really phenomenal,” Stockton said. “NOMT” included numbers of “Next to Normal,” the Broadway hit that stars PLU alum Louis Hobson ’00. “It’s evolved into something that

Division III Week. Drive to 125, an effort to reach 125 wins across all sports during the 2014-15 academic year, was launched in Fall 2014 in honor of Pacific Lutheran University’s 125th anniversary. “I thought that would be something cool to do if PLU had one of those ‘anniversary moments,’” said PLU Associate Athletic Director Jen Thomas. “It’d bring the whole Athletics department into one unit and be a great opportunity for every single program to be part of a larger theme.” And that’s just what

. “I knew that coming into the (MAE) program that anti-racist practices and equity-focused practices were something I needed to work on,” Anderson said. “I’m a white cisgender female teacher and I know I have implicit biases because of my background and because of how I grew up.” PLU professors Wendy Gardiner, Ksenija Simic-Muller and Andrea Munro were co-collaborators on landing the NSF grant in 2020.Learn more about PLU’s Culturally Sustaining STEM Teacher ProgramThe CS-STEM Program is designed

she isn’t surprised, either, that so many Lutes choose to go through the NBCT process. “I think [PLU] graduate[s] people who are serious about what [we] do. [We’re] focused on that whole idea of vocation,” she said. “We want to go into this process because we want to be better. We want to be the best people we can be, the best teachers we can be—and being the best means going through the hardest things and coming out the other side having learned something.” Read Previous ‘Namibia Nine’ Premieres