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  • of their abilities and talents. We are excited at recent successes, including enrollment growth. Our message is getting out! In September, 2018, PLU welcomed an incoming first-year class of 649 students—more than 5 percent over the previous year. PLU recruited 179 new transfer students—almost 15 percent more than the year before. In addition, PLU welcomed this academic year 372 graduate students—the highest graduate enrollment since 1995. Bishop Richard Jaech PLU’s mission – to educate for lives

  • Sara’s Story – Uruguay, J-Term 2015; Ecuador, J-Term 2016; Argentina & Antarctica, J-Term 2017; Trinidad & Tobago, J-Term 2018 Biology (Hispanic Studies minor) – Class of 2018 What she would like other students to know: Before starting my undergraduate degree at PLU, I had never left the United States. Studying away is an incredibly rewarding, yet trying, experience. I felt that each time I returned home, I came back a truer version of myself. The opportunity to step out of whatever box you

  • the relationship between a young girl, Li’l Bit, from a tightly knit, lower-middle-class family, and her uncle-by-marriage, Uncle Peck. The play thoughtfully integrates the metaphor of driving with the idea of control and manipulation. The March 8 premiere is presented as part of the first event of the 2013 School of Arts and Communication (SOAC) Focus Series. Four events, each with a different disciplinary lens, address various aspects of empowerment. A post-performance discussion will be held

  • Coordinator to discuss their rights afforded to them under Title IX. The Title IX Coordinator, following an individual needs assessment with the student/employee, will help organize with faculty and staff the reasonable modifications necessary to assist the student/employee while they are navigating their pregnancy or related conditions. Some examples of the reasonable modifications that may be implemented include, but are not limited to, access to a larger desk, class location reassignment to a building

  • all students in the fullest development of their abilities and talents. We are excited at recent successes, including enrollment growth. Our message is getting out! In September, 2018, PLU welcomed an incoming first-year class of 649 students—more than 5 percent over the previous year. PLU recruited 179 new transfer students—almost 15 percent more than the year before. In addition, PLU welcomed this academic year 372 graduate students—the highest graduate enrollment since 1995. Bishop Richard

  • International Honors Program builds a ‘Starship’ On day one of PLU Professor of Mathematics Daniel Heath’s Designing a Starship class, students have no idea what they have signed up for — and that’s exactly how Heath wants it. The course is part of PLU’s International Honors Program (IHON), which means it… December 20, 2022 AcademicsBiologyCommunityCurrent StudentsDiversity Justice SustainabilityGlobal EducationInvolvementLife on CampusLutheran Higher EducationMathematicsPacific

  • PLU alum returns to Namibia to research infections and teach marimba Biology major Elizabeth Larios ’21 was awarded a Fullbright scholarship for her work in Namibia. When she was in fourth grade, Larios wanted to be a neurosurgeon. That’s when her class took a field trip to a science museum and Larios saw an exhibit about… November 17, 2022 AcademicsAlumni ProfilesBiologyCommunityDiversityDiversity Justice SustainabilityGlobal EducationInvolvementJusticeLutheran Higher EducationMusicPLU

  • in adventure therapy and nature therapy, If that could be added, it’d be great! Life here is busy (if it weren’t, how boring it would be!) and very good. I am currently lining up my internship for this counseling program. I am going to be supervising an undergrad class on a May Term trip to Alaska for social work with Hope Community Resources. In gaining experience with that organization during the trip, it is pretty likely I will stay up there for my internship credit as a full-time therapist

  • grade, and I have had the privilege and the blessing to be able to observe teaching in the local Catholic schools. I have always said that I want my students to be critical thinkers and social justice leaders. I think it is really important to have diversity responsive literature in classrooms and I always tie in social justice components including identity, justice, diversity, and action in my teaching. I always said that no matter which school I end up working at, I would uphold that same

  • Learn More: Urhobo Water Masquerade Staff 2This staff appears to be a “rattle staff” used during water masquerades and other rituals. Although it may look heavy, it is relatively light when held. The figure on top appears to be a female figure, sitting on some sort of stool. She is adorned with what appears to be necklaces and bracelets, suggesting her social prominence. The woman in this piece is either wearing a headpiece or has an intricate hairstyle, also suggesting the figure is a regal