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graduate school.” “Perhaps now more than ever, I think the world needs as many young people as possible considering the issues and dilemmas of today through the lens of Economics, which considers the implications of scarcity and choice,” Travis says. “Our students leave with the tools to successfully contribute to society in many different venues.” Read Previous From Opportunity to Opry Read Next PLU Alumna Named Western Washington’s “New Journalist of the Year” COMMENTS*Note: All comments are

next goal is to use my public administration certificate to transition to the public sector next year. Teaching, while it has been a fantastic run, was never my intended career choice. While at PLU my main concentration was global studies, and the master’s degree I finished in the Netherlands was focused on public policy. I am ecstatic for the opportunity to switch careers and become a more useful and engaged citizen.ResoLute: ‘Two families, two countries’What advice do you have to someone else who

the healthcare industry? This is your chance to dive into your future plans and how this degree will help you excel. Download the Quick Guide in PDF3. What do you perceive to be the greatest opportunities or concerns in the field of your desired program? This question allows you to explain why this career choice is the best for you and demonstrates to the application committee that this is the best program for you. By addressing what you know about the program’s field of study, you are

interventions and repair work that take place in the post-genocide context. Students conduct research and create a poster and presentation about an organization of their choice that works to repair the atrocities of genocide. Past projects have highlighted people working to destroy Cambodian land mines and those working with rape survivors and their offspring in Rwanda. “It’s really just amazing and a powerful aspect of the class that left students, not in despair or thinking that the world is a terrible

Arts in Education program has an excellent reputation and continues to be a top choice for passionate, committed prospective students: PLU has been certifying teachers for more than 120 years 100% satisfaction rate from principals who hired our MA in Education graduates (2017 data) Students spend a full year with more than 800 hours in the classroom All full-time faculty have K-12 experience If you are interested in learning more about joining a community of education experts at PLU, we encourage

of a newborn baby, a smile, a tear, an artist’s stroke of a brush. And here you are … right in the thick of things. You are the one who has the choice to take this time at PLU, and prepare yourself for a life of success, a life of contributions to the world we live in. If you’re here today thinking you’ve got your life together, and you’re invincible and PLU has nothing to offer you, good luck. But even more importantly, if you are here today ready to embrace what these upcoming years have to

at the criteria, it just made sense. These are things we want from PLU students.” Wiley was an obvious choice to lead the program. Not only is she a faculty member who can work directly with the professors on campus, but she is a Peace Corps alumna herself. She taught English for two years in Mauritania, a large country on the northwest coast of Africa. Later, Wiley returned for doctoral work. She maintains connections with communities there.“One thing I learned in the Peace Corps was that

through innovative voter-outreach efforts and community organizing.What motivates you most about your current role? What motivates me the most are the people that make it happen — the volunteers who show up on a Saturday and give a few hours to knock on doors and talk to their neighbors about why a candidate is the best choice for office; students marching in the street for climate action in record numbers around the world; or the first-time candidates, particularly people of color and women, who are

chase the money, and the ones who had no other choice.“I fall into the latter camp,” Conover said. “I sincerely believe that no matter what I majored in or what career I started in, I would have ended up programming.” Today, Conover is a senior software engineer at Rainway, a Seattle-based video game streaming service. He works from his home in San Jose, California Before taking the job at Rainway, he worked at Wiser Solutions, an information and technology firm specializing in ecommerce and

years of paid tuition. He double majored in psychology and individualized studies, while working with faculty on research projects and co-founding the ultimate frisbee team. PLU was just one stop on a journey that led to Bell making partner at a New York City financial firm. Even though his fields of academic study and his career choice might seem unrelated, to Bell, they are completely aligned. At PLU, Bell was able to conduct research all four years under Wendelyn Shore, professor of psychology