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  • The Academic and Honor Society Clubs and Organizations seek to recognize student achievement, better understand the academic fields of interest, and engage with students and allow them the space to

    ACDA conferences, providing you with valuable insights and keeping you updated on the latest trends in choral music education. While our primary focus is on choral music education majors, we extend a warm welcome to anyone with a passion for the choral arts, regardless of your level of experience. Our goal is to create a diverse and inclusive community where everyone can unite in their shared love for music! Follow our Instagram at @pluacda for more updates! Type of Club or Organization: Academic

  • 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…

    author/editor of seven published texts and the founder of the Emergent Strategy Ideation Institute, where she is now the writer-in-residence.” – from https://adriennemareebrown.net/book-me/ Featured Here: Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds (ebook) ALOK (they/them) is an internationally acclaimed author, poet, comedian, and public speaker. As a mixed-media artist their work explores themes of trauma, belonging, and the human condition. They have shown up on paper, on stage, on social

  • By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, WASH. (Jan. 26, 2015)—After World War II, government authorities removed thousands of American Indian children from their families and placed them in non-Indian foster or adoptive families. By the late 1960s, an estimated 25 to 35…

    Schnackenberg Lecturer to Discuss the Removal of Indigenous Children From Their Families Posted by: Sandy Dunham / January 26, 2015 Image: Dr. Margaret Jacobs (Photo: Craig Handler/University of Nebraska-Lincoln) January 26, 2015 By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, WASH. (Jan. 26, 2015)—After World War II, government authorities removed thousands of American Indian children from their families and placed them in non-Indian foster or adoptive families. By the late 1960s

  • Activist fights against poverty and disease Stephen Lewis, a humanitarian, diplomat and human rights activist, will visit Tacoma for the Wang Center for International Programs’ symposium “Advances in Global Health by Non-Governmental Organizations,” slated for Feb. 21 and 22.Lewis is the former United Nations Special…

    Thursday, Feb. 21 at 7 p.m. at the Greater Tacoma Convention and Trade Center. Lewis is currently the chair of the board of the Stephen Lewis Foundation in Canada. The foundation helps ease the pain of HIV/AIDS in Africa at the grassroots level by providing care to women, assists orphans and other children affected by the disease, supports the grandmothers who care for their orphaned grandchildren and supports associations on people living with the disease. Additionally, Lewis is a professor in global

  • New MediaLab film explains “Compassion Fatigue” and impact on aid workers Three PLU student filmmakers spent more than a year researching the cumulative effects of tragedy and trauma, which will soon be unveiled in a new documentary – “Overexposed: The Cost of Compassion.” The documentary…

    October 1, 2011 New MediaLab film explains “Compassion Fatigue” and impact on aid workers Three PLU student filmmakers spent more than a year researching the cumulative effects of tragedy and trauma, which will soon be unveiled in a new documentary – “Overexposed: The Cost of Compassion.” The documentary focuses on the idea that there is a human toll associated with The new documentary from MediaLab, “Overexposed: The Cost of Compassion,” examines and defines “compassion fatigue.” repeated

  • Getting down to business – and winning! By Chris Albert Over Spring Break, six PLU business students took a deep breath and kept charging as a computer breakdown cut their time to complete a competition in half. “Problems happen in the real word,” said Vitaliy…

    April 26, 2011 Getting down to business – and winning! By Chris Albert Over Spring Break, six PLU business students took a deep breath and kept charging as a computer breakdown cut their time to complete a competition in half. “Problems happen in the real word,” said Vitaliy Marchenko, shrugging off the setback. And in the end, the lost time didn’t matter. From left to right: Colin Zinnecker, Sanne Jacobsen, Tiffany Brown, Kasey Dorcas, Vitaliy Marchenko and Alisha Fisher took home two first

  • Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies (GSRS) at PLU is an interdisciplinary major that requires three core courses (GSRS 201, 301, and 499), along with 24 hours of electives in at least four other

    least two different divisions or schools; and at least four of these courses must be at 300 or 400-level. Courses from any discipline that are not on the approved list, for which at least 60% of the assignments center on women, feminism, gender, race, and/or sexuality, may also count for the GSRS major. This allows the integration of gender, sexuality, and race studies perspectives into courses that are not explicitly or entirely structured around those perspectives. Students should consult the GSRS

  • Date: February 27, 2017 Time: 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. Place: Anderson University Center (Regency Room)

    Award. As a head coach in lacrosse and field hockey, she won a combined 7 national titles, amassed 362 victories, and was named NCAA Division II Field Hockey Coach of the Year 3 times. Sharon was inducted into the NFHCA Hall of Fame in 2003.Panel ModeratorColleen M. Hacker, Ph.D., CC-AASP, USOC Mental Skills Registry Professor, Department of KinesiologyPanel IntroductionMallory E. Mann, Ph.D.,Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Kinesiology *Special thanks to Dr. Colleen Hacker whose

  • Cover art by Sheila Mesick Intersections, Number 51, Spring 2020 Intersections is a publication by and largely for the academic communities of the twenty-seven institutions that comprise the Network of ELCA Colleges and Universities (NECU). Each issue reflects on the intersection of faith, learning, and…

    home in the Presidential Center for Faith and Learning at Augustana College, Rock Island, Illinois, the institutional sponsor of the publication. Intersections extends and enhances discussions fostered by the annual Vocation of the Lutheran College Conference, together lifting up the vocation of Lutheran colleges and universities. It aims to raise the level of  awareness among faculty, staff, and administration about the Lutheran heritage and church-relatedness of their institutions, especially as