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community. We also think she will be an effective partner with faculty and staff to provide learning opportunities around questions of identity, vocation, faith formation, justice and other topics relevant to PLU’s mission of educating students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care,” he said. “We look forward to welcoming Jen to PLU and supporting her and her staff as she builds a campus ministry that is diverse, engaging, nourishing, at times challenging, and worthy of the
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Scholars Program touches on her interest in nursing and peacebuilding, and its summer schedule was perfect timing. “I’m interested in how can nurses play a role in peacebuilding,” Rush said. “Nurses have this rapport in a community already. They are there to help that community heal and how can they transition to a peacebuilding role?” Rush, who is from Colorado, found herself at PLU through a series of random college applications. “I really connected with PLU’s mission of sustainability, justice and
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national averages — is a direct result of Hewins’ stable leadership. He praised the superintendent’s focus on purposeful recruiting, thoughtful and rigorous professional development, social justice and equity, and more. “While a team effort certainly created the growth, Frank’s leadership set the vision and expectation for success,” Keim said. “That type of leadership is what the Superintendent of the Year award is designed to recognize.” Hewins has worked in Franklin Pierce Schools for three
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the university’s Diversity, Justice and Sustainability (DJS) fund. Over the past 10 months, the series was produced by a documentary team of four MediaLab students: project director and graphic designer Rachel Lovrovich ’18, a digital media major; director of photography and editor Joshua Wiersma ’18, a communication major; chief writer Julia Grosvenor ’19, a communication major; and producer Mackenzie R. Cooper ’19, a communication major.'A World of Difference'RSVP to see the first two
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year. Check out worldofdifferenceseries.com for more information about the MediaLab documentary. Visit www.plu.edu/medialab to learn more about MediaLab, the applied research and multimedia program. Generous funding helped make “A World of Difference” and “More Than a Mission” possible. The former received funds from PLU’s Wang Center for Global Education and PLU’s Diversity, Justice, and Sustainability (DJS) Fund. The latter also received funds from PLU’s DJS Fund, as well as the Center for
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study environmental studies at Pacific Lutheran University with all those experiences informing his worldview. He will graduate this month after spending the last few years examining issues related to global climate change, sustainability and environmental justice. He cited Environmental 350 — for which he studied Pierce County’s Clover Creek and its surrounding watershed — as one of his favorite classes. “It was all focused around different areas of the creek and studying its health along its route
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researchers to be among the top 13% of universities in the country for return on investment, and was recently ranked third in the West for “Best Value” by U.S. News & World Report.Connect with us! /* justice. Lutes aren’t afraid to do things unconventionally to leave the world
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call her in my head. She helps me take so many risks that I never thought I could accomplish. Her door is always open for me. Tell me about your favorite class at PLU. My favorite class was statistical consulting with Dr. [N.] Justice. We learned practical skills that will help in work as a data analyst or consultant. How has working with Campus Life as an ambassador for assessment, evaluation and research enriched your learning at PLU? I am taking it as practice for what I want to go into, which
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what I’m most passionate about, which is writing, journalism, politics and social justice.” 3. A family-college balance. Leaving home does not mean leaving your family. Still, it can sometimes be hard to explain to them that you can’t come home because you’re stressed about a paper due on Monday. Balancing the two worlds looks different for everyone, but it gets easier to manage over time. “Often with first-generation students, there is a pressure to do majors that have a more direct career path
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Director of Student Rights and Responsibilities Connie Gardner (not pictured) co-teach this PLUS 100 course The concept behind PLUS 100 is a simple but valuable one: a class designed to prepare college freshmen for success, both academic and personal. “In the beginning we talked more about work, time management, that kind of thing,” Martinez said. “But now we’ve got into more social justice, implicit bias, things that have to do more with communication with people.” That ties into what McAdams
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