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  • Building relationships, building scholars Academic posters, scholarly articles and videos illustrated the intellectual life of the university at the third annual Student-Faculty Research Reception. Sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the reception is just one venue where faculty and student researchers display their work…

    July 7, 2008 Building relationships, building scholars Academic posters, scholarly articles and videos illustrated the intellectual life of the university at the third annual Student-Faculty Research Reception. Sponsored by the Office of the Provost, the reception is just one venue where faculty and student researchers display their work and explain the intricacies of the collaborative research represented. The reception featured 24 projects from the humanities, social sciences and natural

  • Associate Professor | School of Education | gardinwl@plu.edu | 253-535-8342 | Wendy Gardiner teaches literacy courses in the Education Department.

    Wendy Gardiner Associate Professor She/Her Phone: 253-535-8342 Email: gardinwl@plu.edu Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Jolita Hylland Benson Chair in Elementary Education Education Ed.D, Curriculum and Instruction, National Louis University M.Ed, Curriculum and Instruction, National Louis University B.S., Elementary Education, Ohio State University Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Equity Literacy Teacher Education Diversity Responsive Children's Literature Mentoring and New Teacher

  • Please save the date for these important workshops as they are added. Attendance at each meeting for your cohort is expected.

    Fellow in Humanities Laree Winer, Director of Wild Hope Center for Vocation Friday, March 8, 2024 – 3:00-4:30 pm | Hauge Admin 101 Lutheran Higher Education: Putting it to Practice* Marit Trelstad, Professor of Religion *For this workshop, please read chapter 6 from the book So That All May Flourish and a chapter of your choice. Friday, April 19, 2024 – 3:00-4:30 pm | Hauge Admin 101 Working with Student Feedback Antonios Finitsis, Executive Director of Wild Hope Center for Vocation Friday, May 3

  • Imagine Otherwise: Radically Co-Creating Education Futures “Make Change Wherever You Are”

    HIGHER EDUCATION PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT Imagine Otherwise: Radically Co-Creating Education Futures “Make Change Wherever You Are” Educators can make change from wherever they are. This three-part certificate program engages educators in radically (re)imagining and critically co-creating equitable futures in K-12, higher education, and beyond by transforming their lived experiences and radical aspirations into tangible action plans for collective change. Radical imagination and critical

  • #educationisnotacrime

    faculty (AGF) for the Baha’i Institute of Higher Education (BIHE) in Iran, which offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in Science, Engineering, Humanities, Social Science and Business and Management. The AGF, composed of hundreds of accredited professors from universities outside of Iran, creates and supports distance learning designed to overcome unrelenting religious persecution of Baha’i’s and the systematic denial of their access to higher education.

  • Welcome to this year’s edition of Prism, which we’re rolling out in a fully digital format. It’s got some great features — links to sites with extra information on topics discussed in our

    read a profile of Scott in the English Department pages.) As PLU celebrates its 125th year with a visit from His Majesty King Harald V of Norway, we in the Division of Humanities take time to celebrate another outstanding year of teaching, learning, and scholarship. Inquiry and community are two key values in PLU’s mission statement.  In our cover story you’ll read how four of our faculty have pursued inquiry that engages with communities outside PLU — and how this community engagement has in turn

  • Professor Emeritus | Religion | oakmande@plu.edu | The Reverend Doctor Douglas E.

    Douglas E. Oakman Professor Emeritus Email: oakmande@plu.edu Website: https://community.plu.edu/~oakmande/ Curriculum Vitae: View my CV Professional Biography Personal Additional Titles/Roles Small Groups Leader for Campus Ministry Education Ph.D., Bible, New Testament, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley , CA, 1986 M.Div., Christ Seminary - Seminex, St. Louis, MO, 1979 B.A. with Honors, Religion, University of Iowa, 1975 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Hebrew Bible New Testament History of the

  • Originally published in 2014 One of the things that studying Indigenous stories and situations has shown me is that knowledge isn’t neutral. Our systems of knowledge grow out of our ways of being in the world and are all culturally-specific—that is, they are all created…

    tribes in the area, we hope to build a cooperative program that meets local needs and provides a space for Indigenous ways of knowing at PLU. This won’t be about framing Native Americans and other Indigenous peoples as the object of study. Instead, it will be about empowerment and about building an education based on an Indigenous paradigm. A member of the Puyallup Tribe harvesting camas on PLU’s campus during an event co-organized by the Native and Indigenous Studies program in 2021 Ebenezer Scrooge

  • PLU’s mission to support the education of our students and larger community on issues of diversity and justice are intimately connected to the study of the tragedy of the Holocaust.

    2021 Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education: “Holocaust Distortion And Denial” Presented by Dr. Yehuda Bauer and Dr. Christopher Browning, experts in Holocaust studies. Oct. 27, 2021 | On-campus and Virtual Thanks to the generosity of donors this event is free and open to the public. The 2021 Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education at PLU is proud to announce that this year’s conference will be the first collaboration with the world’s leading Holocaust center, Yad Vashem, in

    Powell-Heller Holocaust Education Conference
    12180 Park Avenue South, Tacoma, WA 98447-0003
  • Professor Emeritus | School of Education

    Jan P. Lewis Professor Emeritus Professional Additional Titles/Roles Term of Service: 1989-2022 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Literacy Education Elementary Education

    Area of Emphasis/Expertise