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success in her life to mentors like Palerm. A Latina woman born to an immigrant father, Larios has been fighting against stereotypes her whole life. Neither of her parents finished high school and she didn’t learn to speak English until kindergarten when, after becoming lost during a spelling lesson, she started taking English language acquisition (ELA) classes. “Our school nurse was actually the teacher and she would sit the three of us down — me, my cousin, and my uncle, who was in the fifth grade
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frenzy,” Ford said. “But I found peace in this chaos and all the craziness round me. I found myself asking what it meant to me be me, Mycal Ford, in this country.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJsemlTJn1A Ford saw Chengdu as an opportunity to share not only American culture but also African-American-American culture. He also told them about his journey as a high school student who grew up in Tukwila, Wash., and had no intention of going to college until a high school teacher encouraged him to
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me about ways people perceive and interact with the environment and asked me to critically consider negative social externalities that arise from pollution and other concerns. I really enjoyed these classes but wanted the opportunity to take more math and science courses and ended up shifting the environmental studies degree to a minor and adding a chemistry major. The Hispanic Studies degree was really inspired by my high school Spanish teacher. I took AP Spanish 4 and 5 in high school and loved
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presenting Benge with a glitter-encrusted purple cord at graduation. “Because Lizbett began pursuing her degree at PLU around the same time that I began teaching there, we very much developed as a student and teacher alongside each other,” Smith said. This “interconnected growth” is a facet of mentorship that Smith believes often goes overlooked, as expertise in any field is always “contextual and incomplete.” Smith added that while she “may have had expertise in women’s and gender studies as a
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patients but also with themselves.” This business includes helping create a curriculum breaking down barriers for diversity, equity and inclusion between healthcare workers and their patients. “I think there’s a lot of history that hasn’t really been touched, unfortunately, and a lot of the biases that we are seeing in healthcare today kind of relate to that history,” she said, “… so I’m just hoping to be a mentor and teacher to new nurses so they can start their practice off on the right foot
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spiritual teacher, a tireless advocate for equity and inclusivity, and a beloved and integral campus leader.At ELCA institutions like PLU we talk a lot about our Lutheran commitment to being “rooted and open.” How do you think about this call and how does it show up in the work of Campus Ministry? I think rooted and open has always been a Lutheran value. I always tell our students that Lutherans aren’t that concerned about being right, or about getting people to believe all the same things. Rather
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her life to mentors like Palerm. A Latina woman born to an immigrant father, Larios has been fighting against stereotypes her whole life. Neither of her parents finished high school and she didn’t learn to speak English until kindergarten when, after becoming lost during a spelling lesson, she started taking English language acquisition (ELA) classes. “Our school nurse was actually the teacher and she would sit the three of us down — me, my cousin, and my uncle, who was in the fifth grade — two to
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of Nursing — giving back to a community they’re a product of. Jodi Erickson '12 “Having been taught by people who are very passionate about nursing in a setting where students and faculty are encouraged to develop a rapport, it helped me realize what it is to be a good teacher,” Erickson said. “We are creating people who are going to go out and take care of other people, so it’s good to have a nurturing environment.” For Kathleen Richardson ’06, assistant professor of nursing, the nurturing
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second degree, Bachelor of Education, in 1951. For the next two years, Hauge served in active duty in the United States Army. After returning to the Northwest in 1953, Hauge began a long career in education, starting in the Clover Park School District as a teacher, principal and administrator. During this time, his three children — Jan, Steven and David — were born. Always wanting to advance his education, Hauge completed his master’s degree in education from Pacific Lutheran University in 1962. From
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Employee must report any information about Prohibited Conduct to their supervisor or directly to the Title IX Coordinator on-campus. Responsible Employees on the PLU campus include all part and full time faculty/staff/administrators, including Campus Safety student employees, Teacher Assistants, student Athletic Trainers, and Campus Life Residential Assistant student employees. Title IXTitle IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 is a federal law that prohibits sex-based discrimination. This includes
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