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, along with chairing the associate board for YWCA and serving on its events and civic-engagement committees. Even more personally, in the aftermath of her late husband’s military-related PTSD struggle, Young helps other families rallying around their soldiers and has become an engaged advocate for increased support for them. Read Previous PLU Human Resources Moves Into Garfield Station Read Next Endowed Internship Allows Lute a Full-Circle Vocational First Step COMMENTS*Note: All comments are

/or volunteer at multiple local churches, including First Lutheran Church, Christ Episcopal Church, and Urban Grace. “Gene cared about people,” wrote longtime friend and fellow Christ Episcopal Church member Doug Dahlgren in the passing announcement sent to Christ Episcopal community members last week. “He cared about doing what mature, heartfelt faith brought into the heart. He was highly educated, widely read and loved books, but his greatest joy was putting his arm around someone in distress or

by Faculty Assembly. *Note: All comments are moderated How does student-faculty ratio impact our philosophy of enrollment?The idea of the philosophy of enrollment is to establish the size of institution that we want. The task then is to ensure that we have the people and facilities needed to support the student body. Our habit over decades has been to follow a boom-and-bust cycle, which puts tremendous stress on the institution to manage. I think we’ll be much better off if we can have a steady

negative reactions she received, Dr. Shanks Kaurin is still willing to engage with a broader audience online. In widening her audience to Newsweek readers, Dr. Shanks Kaurin considers the accessibility of philosophical writing. “I think academic philosophy is filled with bad writing,” Dr. Shanks Kaurin says, “[Philosophers] are writing to just a few other people and there’s a lot of jargon.” But Dr. Shanks Kaurin is careful to not fall into that trap. She says, “I try to aim for a well-educated, lay

a public health educator. She was more than a year into her service when rumblings began that there was a deadly virus, COVID-19, making its way around the globe. But in Guinea, Chell had only heard of one confirmed case. One morning, she woke up to a flurry of messages informing her that the pandemic would be changing her life in an instant. “It was probably five in the morning. I looked at my phone and I had 130 text messages. I’m not exaggerating there were a bunch,” Chell says. She was part

anymore. It is only through education that we can finally put our nation’s troubled past – and present – behind us and realize the dreams of our best citizens, from our founders’ declaration that we are all “created equal,” to Martin Luther King’s dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed…that this home that we share will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and I hope that you will help PLU be that oasis; I hope that you will share your ideas and

justice. I remember reading about apartheid and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and really becoming aware of the hatred and injustice in the world. Dr. (Karen) Travis introduced me to public health and showed me a way to use my skills in a field that I was passionate about. My ways of thinking were influenced by my economics classes, I often stop and think about the incentive structures that are leading people to make certain decisions, or about the economics of prevention. I also reinforced my value

baseball teams for 11 years, including the San Francisco Giants and the Milwaukee Brewers; was inducted into the PLU Athletic Hall of Fame in 2001; and was awarded the Heritage Award by the PLU Alumni Board of Directors in 2008. Kittilsby and his family also continue to support and connect with PLU in a variety of meaningful ways: Kittilsby has served on the Alumni Board, managed Lute Club and is on the Hall of Fame selection committee; his daughter, Kim Kittilsby ’84, is a two-term president of the

preceding interim director was programs and operations manager. "I would describe it as a place where people can come and fully be themselves."- Laura Brewer '03 says of Tacoma's Rainbow Center Each position has nurtured Brewer’s enthusiasm for community connection and engagement. “I love…learning about people,” she said. “Everyone who comes up is different and they all have different stories.” Brewer became the interim director of the Rainbow Center in January, stepping into the position following six

layout and reconfiguring it to make the most of the space. Since we’ve finished the house that was featured on HHI and don’t get the keys to the next house until December 2020, we bought an old pop-up caravan to renovate, we’ve never completed a renovation of this nature so it’s been a learning curve so far. It feels good to put time and energy into an entirely new project. You can follow Nicole and Paul’s renovation projects @renoaddicts on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.  Read Previous Pandemic