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encourage her to pursue higher education. She didn’t know the questions to ask regarding that pursuit. “It informs the research I do,” she said. And in the fall, Chávez’s past struggles and successes informed her talk at the annual Pave the Way Conference, where she served as one of three featured speakers. She presented to hundreds of educators, policymakers, and nonprofit and industry partners about the opportunity gap in Washington state. The annual conference focuses on increasing educational
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skills by asking them to pay careful attention to essential literary features: space, time, plot and story. By adding a research component, students can be tasked to investigate details on specific places (e.g., when a monument was built or who attended specific venues that the character visits). They can be asked to add images to accompany pins or points on a map. In addition, the assignment can ask students to write a gloss, or short description or explanation, to accompany the pins and image, and
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higher education. In this climate, PLU is well-positioned. The two most worrisome positions to be in are 1) the strictly undergraduate private liberal arts colleges—particularly those in remote locations that are heavily tuition-dependent and that lack large endowments. The other uncomfortable place for an institution to be in this environment is the large public research university, because of the plummeting levels of state and federal support, the increasing reliance on corporations for research
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library books display the range of topics noted above and additional topics such as slavery, Black humanity, and Black pride expressed in a variety of styles and methods. See the online version of this exhibit here. Exhibit supported: The Center for Diversity, Justice, & Sustainability; Gender, Race, and Sexuality Studies; and the Black Student Union Curator: Holly Senn, Librarian On Exhibit: Veterans Day: A Salute to Service On November 11, the United States celebrates Veterans Day, a day dedicated
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Making a Career Change? Consider These 6 Graduate Degrees Posted by: chaconac / October 12, 2021 October 12, 2021 Changing careers is normal. Though there’s no real statistic on how often people change careers in a lifetime, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics examined the number of jobs “young baby boomers” (individuals born between 1957 to 1964) held from age 18 to 52. The result? Younger baby boomers held an average of 12.3 jobs in that time span! While the research provided by the BLS
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February 11, 2011 For more than a month, geosciences professor Claire Todd and her geosciences student, Michael Vermeulen ’12 lived and worked on the ice in Antarctica. (Photos by Claire Todd) Editor’s Note: For the past two research seasons, Assistant Professor of Geosciences Claire Todd and two students, Mike Vermeulen ’12 and Mathew Hegland ’13 travelled to Antarctica to research climate change among the rocks and ice. Vermeulen went with Todd in the 2010-2011 research season, while Hegland
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Society Endowment has been active on campus. George Long graduated from PLU in 1966 with a degree in biochemistry. He went on to work in pharmaceutical research across the country, teaching in universities and making a home and starting a family in Vermont. Although Long studied biochemistry, the endowment is interdisciplinary. “I think this was something that he wanted to be connected to science,” Hagen said, “but also to society.” This summer, three students were chosen for work across the natural
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