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worldview. Assessment for Student Learning: Uses multiple approaches in the assessment of and for student learning, promotes student self-reflection, and modifies instruction and support accordingly with intentionality around the data collected. Classroom Environment & Culture: Creates a safe, positive, Jesus-centered learning environment where students are known, valued, and celebrated, and where learning time is consistently maximized so that each student can develop a learning posture, growing in

with an attitude…or Santa Claus,” he said. The book has inspired conversations about the nature of God, healing and human nature, and dealing with everything that comes with living in a world in which terrible things happen. In the book, Young explores a meeting Mackenzie Allen Philip has with God, as well as Jesus and the Holy Spirit, all of whom he finds in a shack in the middle of the Oregon woods. He challenges God on why terrible things happen to innocent people, such as Philip’s young

address is entitled: “New Wineskins: The Lutheran Contribution.” In science the present geological changes to the planet announce a new geological age, the Anthropocene, as a successor to the present age, the late Holocene. For humans this is, to remember a parable of Jesus, “new wine” that requires some “new wineskins” (i.e., a different way of life). Rasmussen will explore what these new wineskins and what are the contributions of Lutherans to them. Professor Larry Rasmussen will be the keynote

Choir of the West will remember for a lifetime. It is made all the better by our successes in these events, which brings great visibility to PLU and our music program,” Nance said. “I hope we will continue to participate in festivals and competitions as we tour abroad in the future.” WATCH ‘Lux Aeterna,’ was written and conducted by Jesus Gomez ’17 and performed on the European Tour. Links Read the Blog! Read Next Choir of the West International Tour 2019 LATEST POSTS Choir of the West International

. Michael also had the opportunity to investigate the Gilder Lehrman Institute’s impressive archive as well as materials at the New-York Historical Society. (Historians tend to be pretty geeky when they get the chance to examine historical records up close.) The long journey was closely related to what Michael had been prepared to do at PLU. “I felt that Pacific Lutheran prepared me well to interact with scholars at these institutions and to discuss archival materials and the methodologies that they use

with five other choirs.WATCH ‘Lux Aeterna,’ was written and conducted by Jesus Gomez ’17 and performed on the European Tour.Links Read the Blog!View The Anton Bruckner Competition was just the second world choral competition for Choir of the West. In 2011 the choir participated in the Harmonie Festival in Limburg-Lindenholzhausen, Germany, where they won gold awards in the large mixed chorus and male chorus categories, as well as silver in the women’s category. Richard Nance hopes the Bruckner

interested in the widespread historical practice of Indigenous child removal when I carried out research in Australia in 1998, just a year after the Human Rights Commission issued its Bringing Them Home report,” Jacobs wrote in a post on the University of Nebraska Press blog. “The Commission had gathered deeply disturbing testimony from hundreds of Indigenous people—known as the Stolen Generations—who had been forcibly removed from their families to be raised in institutions or non-Indigenous homes. … I

and learning led to a deep and abiding belief in the importance of education for all people (not just Lutherans!) at all levels—from preschool to graduate education—that Lutherans have been justly famous for throughout our 500-year history. Pacific Lutheran University is an expression of that Lutheran commitment to education and learning. But take it a step further. For Luther, learning was never an end in itself. It was always learning for the sake of serving our neighbor who, as Jesus taught us

actually kind of a miracle because we had no technical glitches, everybody knew where to be and what they were doing, but it required an amazing amount of planning in the month or two before the actual residency. It was a very successful residency online, but once again, it was disappointing that we could not be on campus to be together. But we still had a really great experience.“The Galleons” explores some historical themes which seem to have been new for your work. Was that something that came

January 3, 2008 New director joins Campus Safety The new director of Campus Safety is Tony Berger, who began transitioning into the role Dec. 17.“I’ve been adjusting well,” Berger said, noting the quiet time around the holidays has made the transition less stressful. “I’ve been gliding into the post, versus being thrown right into the fire.”Berger is replacing outgoing director Jesus Villahermosa, who is leaving PLU after just over a year to head up the core security division of the County-City