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Jan Weiss Associate Dean, School of Education & Associate Professor of Education Full Profile 253-535-7282 weissjm@plu.edu

“All Tradition is Change”: Redefining Community in the SCC https://www.plu.edu/prism/news/all-tradition-is-change-redefining-community-in-the-scc/

the years ahead. Educator & CheerleaderTeaching During a Global Pandemic Read Previous Encouraging Biliteracy Through Online Learning Read Next Scholarship, Sleep, and Self in the Pandemic LATEST POSTS Gaps and Gifts May 26, 2022 Academic Animals: Making Nonhuman Creatures Matter in Universities May 26, 2022 Gendered Tongues: Issues of Gender in the Foreign Language Classroom May 26, 2022 Introduction May 26, 2022

DJS Fellows https://www.plu.edu/diversity-justice-sustainability/djs-fellows/

and the original care takers of the land PLU is on. I am passionate about Indigenizing colonized spaces.”Waste Diversion EducationElizabeth Elliott (PLU ’22) assessed PLU’s current waste diversion education and offered suggestions to a cross campus group on reengaging Move Out as a waste diversion education. FINAL REPORT Elizabeth Elliott (PLU ’22) Hometown: Kent, WA, USA Major: Science, Technology and Society Major; Women’s and Gender Studies Minor “I chose the Waste Diversion Education project

Philosophical Discourse and Tweeting: On Dr. Pauline Shanks Kaurin’s Public Philosophy https://www.plu.edu/prism/news/philosophical-discourse-and-tweeting-on-dr-pauline-shanks-kaurins-public-philosophy/

English Writing, with minors in Music and Philosophy. She wrote this article as part of her work in English 320: Intermediate Creative Nonfiction. Read Previous The Trail to Social Justice: Ultrarunning Meets Dark Green Religion Read Next Indivisible: English Faculty Members Join the Anti-Trump Resistance LATEST POSTS Gaps and Gifts May 26, 2022 Academic Animals: Making Nonhuman Creatures Matter in Universities May 26, 2022 Gendered Tongues: Issues of Gender in the Foreign Language Classroom May 26

News and Achievements https://www.plu.edu/mfa/news-and-achievements/

Prose about Alzheimer’s Disease, Holly J. Hughes, Kent State University Press, 2009. Fire On Her Tongue: An eBook Anthology of Contemporary Women’s Poetry, edited by Kelli Russell Agodon & Annette Spaulding-Convy, Two Sylvias Press, 2012. The Pen and the Bell: Mindful Writing in a Busy World, Brenda Miller and Holly J. Hughes, Skinner Press Books, 2012. Becoming: What Makes a Woman, Jill McCabe Johnson, University of Nebraska Gender Programs, 2012.

Student Life and Campus Resources https://www.plu.edu/catalog-2023-2024/student-life-and-campus-resources/

resources and programs to promote gender equity, social justice, diversity education, and student support Anderson University Center 150 253.535.8750 https://www.plu.edu/diversity-justice-sustainability dcenter@plu.edu Center for Graduate Programs & Continuing Education Assistance with graduate programs and continuing education offerings Corner of Pacific Avenue & Garfield St. 253.535.7723 www.plu.edu/centergpce/ gpce@plu.edu Center for Media Studies Co-curricular activities of Student Media Lab to

Changing Lives One Book at a Time with Professor Ned Schaumberg https://www.plu.edu/prism/news/changing-lives-one-book-at-a-time-with-professor-ned-schaumberg/

Attention Read Previous The Parkland Literacy Center Read Next “Opening Crazy Worlds”: Learning about Language with Professor René Carrasco LATEST POSTS Gaps and Gifts May 26, 2022 Academic Animals: Making Nonhuman Creatures Matter in Universities May 26, 2022 Gendered Tongues: Issues of Gender in the Foreign Language Classroom May 26, 2022 Introduction May 26, 2022

Preparing you for your future career(s): how PLU helps https://www.plu.edu/admission/blog/preparing-you-for-your-future-careers-how-plu-helps/

receive one-on-one career and internship guidance from seasoned alumni in your field of interest. Here are the three programs we’re offering this year: The College of Liberal Studies mentoring program is tailored for students in a diverse range of majors and minors, such as Anthropology, Chinese Studies, Criminal Justice, Economics, English, Gender, Sexuality, & Race Studies, Global Studies, History, Holocaust & Genocide Studies, Language & Literatures, Native American & Indigenous Studies, Philosophy

Quan Huynh ’25 Discusses her Internship at the Washington State Senate https://www.plu.edu/admission/blog/quan-huynh-25-discusses-her-internship-at-the-washington-state-senate/

lot of her policy work right now has to do with mental and behavioral health, and sponsoring a bill from high school students on banning the pink tax (a term used for gender-based price differences applied to identical products). She’s also working on mental health competency, or forensic competency, so finding ways to improve our criminal justice system for people who have mental health issues and are being convicted of a crime, and making sure they are getting treatment as well as standing trial

Quan Huynh ’25 Discusses her Internship at the Washington State Senate https://www.plu.edu/political-science/news/quan-huynh-25-discusses-her-internship-at-the-washington-state-senate/

little rough.What type of policy work does Senator Dhingra and your office work with? She has a very wide variety of policy that she works with. A lot of her policy work right now has to do with mental and behavioral health, and sponsoring a bill from high school students on banning the pink tax (a term used for gender-based price differences applied to identical products). She’s also working on mental health competency, or forensic competency, so finding ways to improve our criminal justice system