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new revenue stream from what use to be reliable, traditional advertising dollars is shrinking. The business is trying to figure out where the money will come from. None of the panelists had a clear answer. It may come from a click-per-view mechanism, online subscription, targeted online advertising and personalizing news homepages for the reader or a number of other options. But a change will take place that stabilizes the industry, Zeeck said. These changes were going to happen anyway. But
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coming to campus. VWS was conceived and is co-directed by English professors Jason Skipper and Rick Barot. When both began teaching at PLU, they started the series as a way for authors to share experiences with their readers in person. “Literature can change you, and often it does,” said Skipper. “My hope was to create a Visiting Writer Series where at each event this was a possibility for everyone in the room.” Since the series began, famous writers such as Mary Oliver, Brian Teare and Peter Geye
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develop solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. These problems include but are not limited to: climate change, food and water insecurity, immigration, poverty, and income inequality, as well as ongoing large and small-scale conflicts resulting from strained relations among those of different races, ethnicities, religions, genders, sexual orientations and social classes. “A recent Gallup survey suggests that polarization negatively affects American’s community attachment and trust in others
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aligned with tribal entities. CTE also helps high school students toward graduation. “CTE is one piece of a big puzzle” that’s helping get kids across the finish line, Nelson says. “It’s exciting to be part of a group of people making change for kids.” Read our full Nancy Nelson ’93 feature. Jenifer Leavens ’18: Elementary Assistant Principal Jenifer Leavens joined Chief Leschi Schools in 2019, first as dean of students and then moving into her current position as elementary assistant principal, where
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national theatre honor society, Alpha Psi Omega, the production is entirely student run and led under the direction of Ali Rose Schultz ’14. More than 30 students are involved onstage and off. As director, Schultz is responsible for selecting and assembling designers and actors, running the rehearsal process, and assisting the design process. Schultz chose this production for several reasons: the multifaceted and relatable content, her passion for theatre that inspires social change, and her
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centered on screen] Professor Ramos: What does it take to understand climate change, or how human activity impacts geological formations, or how different cultural beliefs or political views shape our relationship to the earth. It takes interdisciplinary expertise and a robust place-based learning curriculum. These complex questions can’t be answered by a single discipline or field. [video: All three professors framed on screen] This is why, what makes our major unique in the region is in our last name
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be achieved in a vacuum. It is important for academics to educate students who will be fully engaged citizens in the world, who living out the PLU mission, are change agents at the micro and macro level. All members of our local and global communities deserve to be treated with respect, dignity, and courtesy regardless of difference. Sustainability“Sustainability aims to create synergy among care for people, for the planet, and prosperity, both now and in the future. These values provide
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position is programming diversity related events for students and the university. 2001 Fall of 2001, the new Diversity Center, located on the lower level of the University Center, was founded. Teal and turquoise paint, gently used television, comfortable chairs and a couch—all the ingredients for a new student-centered space. The dCenter also brought a change in student leadership. Student Peer Advisors were replaced with student Diversity Advocates. The change redirected the focus of student leaders
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. “Most could not see the Holocaust amidst all the horror,” after the war, Hayes said. Reparations were addressed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Four things had to change for a surge in reparations Professor Peter Hayes of Northwestern University talks about the long fight for restitution by those who suffered under the Nazis in WWll. Billions have been paid over the last decades, but it took the ending of the Cold War and the power of class action suits to bring justice for some heirs and
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wasn’t. I was a hard worker and it was my opinion that hard work would get me where I wanted to go, and where I wanted to go was a very fluid concept,” she said. “I was never concerned with making a choice about what I wanted to be when I grew up, because my parents led me to believe that I could be anything, and it was OK to change your mind as long as you were responsible and gave it a fair shot first. I didn’t know it at the time, but they taught me how to fail forward, so I was never afraid of it
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