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had to wear in P.E., the day we moved a hundred thousand books to the new library, intramurals, dorm competitions, Louis Armstrong in concert, a Hubert Humphrey speech, the first dances on campus, girls wearing pants only on weekends, upper campus for women, lower campus for men, Old and New Testament taught as half sermon, half lecture, half history, crew cuts and Jackie hair, The Mooring Mast, a new swimming pool, were we the Knights or were we Lutes when the saints came marching in? When you
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are now adding to the conversation in ways that may expand our possibilities for understanding this important dimension of human life. Consider for example just a few of the titles to have appeared in the last few years, selected to give a sense of disciplinary and theoretical range: Keith Thomas, Man and the Natural World: A History of the Modern Sensibility (Penguin/Random House 1983); E. O. Wilson, Biophilia: The Human Bond with Other Species (Harvard 1984); Harriet Ritvo, The Animal Estate
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of self, rather than a dreamed-of salary. In short, discovery of the authentic I inspires professional creativity, and compassionate, reflective citizenship.Creating an environment that promotes lifelong honing of the I is what liberal education is all about. As such, the undergraduate “liberal arts” skills that students learn, be they history, biology, a foreign language, or psychology, should in praxis be a mere framework through which an attentive teacher lays a path for students to discover
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bring a rich, lively analysis to bear grounded in the trio’s own personal experiences and expertise. Other Episodes+ In the podcast’s third episode, Hambrick talks with noted Trinidadian author Earl Lovelace, PLU English professor Barbara Temple-Thurston and dCenter alum Shelondra Harris ’17 about the university’s Trinidad and Tobago exchange program. The conversation covers PLU’s 25-year history with the twin-island republic, Harris’ experiences when she took part in the program and the Diversity
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volunteered on every school capital campaign in recent history. In 2017, Al was awarded The Saint Robert Bellarmine Award, the school’s highest honor. Allen and his wife Inge are the proud parents of a PLU graduate, Petra Morris West, a 1986 graduate of the School of Business. In addition, Allen is a donor to and the living benefactor of the Lillian C. Morris Endowment Fund for scholarships at PLU. This is a fund that awards over $14,000 each year to a number of deserving students.Donor Spotlight“I am
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volunteered on every school capital campaign in recent history. In 2017, Al was awarded The Saint Robert Bellarmine Award, the school’s highest honor. Allen and his wife Inge are the proud parents of a PLU graduate, Petra Morris West, a 1986 graduate of the School of Business. In addition, Allen is a donor to and the living benefactor of the Lillian C. Morris Endowment Fund for scholarships at PLU. This is a fund that awards over $14,000 each year to a number of deserving students.Donor Spotlight“I am
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on Sunday morning. After an orientation and safety session, we will likely have time to visit Leon and learn more about the city, culture and history of the area. We start the well on Monday. On Friday afternoon we will head back to Managua to do some shopping in the city market. We’ll spend Friday night at a hotel near the airport, and then leave Saturday for our return flight to Seattle. The weekly schedule tentatively includes: Saturday (6/4) – Depart Seattle, overnight (Atlanta, Houston or
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mission designation.Filling the Chinese language deficitA State Department report on the China challenge calls for the U.S. to train a new generation of public servants and policy thinkers to attain fluency in Chinese and acquire extensive knowledge of China’s culture and history. Yet, interest among U.S. students has been declining since peaking around 2011, as American views of China more generally have plunged to the lowest level since polling began. Multiple factors, including dimmer China-related
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: Independent Studies. Graduation: Corboy will walk in the May Commencement ceremony and graduate in August. Peace-building experience: Corboy received a Gates Scholarship that helped fund a J-Term course in Greece detailing the struggle of Jews to integrate into new communities following the Diaspora. She followed this with a semester at Swansea University in Wales, studying the history of war, genocide and efforts to recover from conflict and rebuild communities. She also participated in a semester-long
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, with 82 percent of its population living on less than $1 a day. It’s a country dominated by trade—now mostly beef, sugar and coffee—trying to elbow its way into tourism and leave behind a past crowded with civil war, damaging foreign involvement and corrupt politicians. PLU students learned about the history of Nicaragua through a series of interdisciplinary lectures scheduled by Mulder that explored the environment, ethics and culture of a country that still struggles to provide basic necessities
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