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director of PLU’s opera programs, started talking with Youtz. They agreed fall 2016 would be the time PLU professor of music and composer Greg Youtz (photo by John Froschauer) to just “go for it,” as Youtz described it.  Youtz quickly wrote the rest of the opera and turned it over to Brown, who was tasked with bringing it from page to stage. “At first — I have to be honest — I was a little daunted by the difficulty of the music,” Brown said. “I’ll admit I was worried that our students wouldn’t respond

DIRECT ADMISSION TO EDUCATION The School of Education offers direct admission for the Bachelor of Arts in Education (BAE), Bachelor of Arts in Music Education (BME), and Bachelor of Arts in Kinesiology (BAK) Health/Fitness Certification programs. The PLU Education program does not require a separate application for our teacher certification programs. Your application to PLU is also your application for direct admission to Education. When you apply to PLU (it’s free to apply), list the teacher

PLU’s School of Nursing evaluation processes require the use of independent, external measures of student performance. This enables student performance to be compared to that of students in other nursing programs across the country. Nursing education is academically rigorous, culminating in a comprehensive national licensure exam. While it is our goal that every student admitted to the PLU School of Nursing will be successful in achieving RN licensure, it is necessary and prudent to implement

especially during the Portuguese Colonial period from 1920 to 1974. This had a major impact on their society and molded much of their art into what is seen today. The Makonde are an agrarian kin-based and matrilineal society. They adhere to an ancestrally based spirituality, despite pressures to convert religiously and adjust economically to the capitalist market. Their matrilineal social structure, meaning ancestry is traced through the female line, is rooted in their creation story, which speaks of the

Learn More: Makonde Mask 1These lipiko masks, which in the language of the Makonde people means “helmet mask.” come from the minority ethnic group of the Makonde live in southern Tanzania and northeastern Mozambique, both north and south of the Rovuma River. The Makonde first came to the region in the eighteenth and nineteenth century seeking refuge from the slave trade and they have continued to experience a great deal of cultural transformation and change over the past century, but especially

Learn More: Makonde Mask 2These lipiko masks, which in the language of the Makonde people means “helmet mask.” come from the minority ethnic group of the Makonde live in southern Tanzania and northeastern Mozambique, both north and south of the Rovuma River. The Makonde first came to the region in the eighteenth and nineteenth century seeking refuge from the slave trade and they have continued to experience a great deal of cultural transformation and change over the past century, but especially

Learn More: Makonde Mask 3These lipiko masks, which in the language of the Makonde people means “helmet mask.” come from the minority ethnic group of the Makonde live in southern Tanzania and northeastern Mozambique, both north and south of the Rovuma River. The Makonde first came to the region in the eighteenth and nineteenth century seeking refuge from the slave trade and they have continued to experience a great deal of cultural transformation and change over the past century, but especially

Learn More: Makonde Mask 4These lipiko masks, which in the language of the Makonde people means “helmet mask.” come from the minority ethnic group of the Makonde live in southern Tanzania and northeastern Mozambique, both north and south of the Rovuma River. The Makonde first came to the region in the eighteenth and nineteenth century seeking refuge from the slave trade and they have continued to experience a great deal of cultural transformation and change over the past century, but especially

did not really have jobs other than in teaching, nursing or households. People did not think she could do it, simply because of her gender. However, she overcame many hardships and proved many wrong, becoming a testimony and a model for millions, including myself. What did that experience mean to you? Meeting Justice O’Connor was especially meaningful for me on a personal level because of my desire to see a full display of gender equality in this nation. During my years at PLU, I was heavily

giving couldn’t stop there. “When you lose somebody, especially your child — your son, your daughter — you lose yourself,” Georgia said. “The biggest fear that a parent has when they lose a child is that their life was for nothing.” So, to guarantee Panago’s lasting legacy, his family and friends came together to create a memorial foundation to help minority high-school students in Tacoma pay for college. Panago’s Legacy Scholarship aims to help two or three students each year. Georgia said she’s