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The Latinx group supports Latinx students and graduates of the PLU Marriage and Family Therapy Program. It is a space to collaborate and lean on one another.
largest ethnic minority group in America, it is imperative to create spaces like this to support current students and alumni during and after the program. This group created a sense of community that does not exist for Latinx therapists in Washington State, as well as alumni residing in other states and abroad. Alumni and current graduate students are able to support, network, and build community as we navigate our unique challenges as Latinx therapists. Hence, this group is critical for the
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TACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 11, 2018) — Pacific Lutheran University welcomes the I Am Psyched! National Tour to campus, where it will be housed in the Mortvedt Library until Sept. 24. I Am Psyched! is a multimedia initiative launched by the American Psychological Association Women’s Programs…
it will be housed in the Mortvedt Library until Sept. 24.I Am Psyched! is a multimedia initiative launched by the American Psychological Association Women’s Programs Office to explore the history and contemporary contributions of women of color in psychology as they engage in psychological science, practice and social justice. The I am Psyched! National Tour got started in early 2017 with an installation at Howard University in Washington, D.C. The exhibit traveled across America to 12
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Associate Professor of Norwegian and Scandinavian Area Studies | Peace Scholars | berguscj@plu.edu | 253-535-7512 | Why do you serve on the Peace Scholars Committee? Our global society needs young adults who not only want to make the world a better place, but are educated to contribute with knowledge, skills and insight gained from experience.
, 2007 Fulbright Award for research in Norway 2002-2003 Professional Memberships/Organizations Modern Language Association NORTANA: Norwegian Teachers and Researchers Association of North America Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study Biography Why do you serve on the Peace Scholars Committee? Our global society needs young adults who not only want to make the world a better place, but are educated to contribute with knowledge, skills and insight gained from experience. The Peace Scholars
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Preparation for law school at PLU is an advising system rather than a curriculum of prescribed major/minor or otherwise organized courses.
, and coursework aimed at developing intellectual skills and resources apt to generate success in legal study and practice. Recent successful PLU applicants to law schools have taken such diverse courses as those in the anthropology of contemporary America, social science research methods, American popular culture, English Renaissance literature, news writing and argumentation, recent political thought, international relations, freelance writing, intermediate German, animal behavior, neuropsychology
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A student messaged me on my Facebook page the other day with an article on college rating systems. Along with messaging her back my response, I thought to share my opinion here with you. Hi President Krise, I’m eager to hear your thoughts on this…
most famous to the most focused on local needs–indicates that this is a risky proposal. America has the world’s finest system of higher education–no one else comes close. Imposing a rankings system tied to funding is almost certain to weaken one of our strongest sectors of society. Two books that are worth reading to understand why highly trained personal services like higher education, health care, legal services, and live performances cost what they cost are: The Cost Disease by William Baumol
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The Common Reading Selection Committee is delighted to announce that for the 2018-2019 FYEP Common Reading, we will revisit Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates . The text, drawing from an autobiographical account of the author’s youth, is written in the form of…
in America. Deeply inspired by James Baldwin, Coates details the ways in which he experiences institutional racism from schools, the police and even “the streets”. However, unlike Baldwin the author views white supremacy as an indestructible force that black Americans cannot evade or erase but will continue to struggle against. Between the World and Me has captured the attention of faculty, staff, and students across the university, sparking collaborations across campus, including an invited
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Associate Professor of Music; Director of Jazz Studies | Title IX | cassio.vianna@plu.edu | 253-535-7760 | Cassio Vianna is the Director of Jazz Studies and Assistant Professor of Music at Pacific Lutheran University where he directs the University Jazz Ensemble and teaches jazz music courses.
Northern Colorado, where he studied jazz composition with David Caffey. Dr. Vianna has been featured as a performer/clinician at festivals and conferences in Latin America and across the U.S. He has presented at the Midwest Clinic, Jazz Education Network Annual Conferences, International Composers Symposium, NAfME Northwest and WMEA Conferences. Vianna is also a very active clinician with high school and college bands. In 2015, he traveled to China to perform and to teach a two-week program at the
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Michael Halvorson ’85 was a technologist before he was a historian. His PLU undergraduate degree is in computer science and he worked at Microsoft for the first 10 years of his career. He spent the next 15 years writing books about software and emerging technology.…
volume, Code Nation: Personal Computing and the Learn to Program Movement in America (2020). I met with him on a rainy winter afternoon to discuss how he defines innovation, how it’s taught at PLU, and why studying history is critical to understanding the benefits and consequences of innovation. Is it possible to define innovation in a single sentence? I think so, let me try. Innovation is creating some new method or idea or product, and it is basically a creative act to do something new. Wow, there
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A yearlong sabbatical in 2017-18 provided Dr. Brenda Llewellyn Ihssen, Dr. Michael Schleeter, and Dr. Seth Dowland with opportunities to rethink their courses and pursue scholarly interests.
new setting while pursuing her scholarly goals. Photo courtesy of Dr. Seth Dowland Dr. Dowland, Associate Professor of Religion and Chair of Women’s and Gender Studies, was able to focus on his second book project, which has the working title of “Purity and Power: The History of White Christian Masculinity in America.” He completed much of his research at Oxford University, which houses the largest collection of scholarly material on American religion outside of North America. Dr. Dowland
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When asked how her students are persevering in times of distance learning, Giovanna Urdangarain, Associate Professor of Hispanic and Latino Studies responded, “They inspire me daily.” Transitioning to online learning has been a lengthy process for all involved, but Professor Urdangarain is grateful to have…
the main tool she utilizes in both her professional and personal life. Giovanna Urdangarain, Associate Professor of Hispanic and Latino Studies Over the pandemic, Professor Urdangarain’s courses have focused on issues of migration, loss, language, justice, vulnerability and discrimination as related to LGBTQI and other minoritized communities in Latin America and in the U.S. She says that her classes have been able to maintain the integrity of in-person discussions, despite being online
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