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residents create a deeper awareness for gender identity while creating a safe and understanding environment.Women's Empowerment & Gender Equity (Stuen)In addition to general RA responsibilities, the Women’s Empowerment & Gender Equity RA is placed in a Stuen wing and is trained to build community around the Stuen mission of “promoting gender equity through intentional programming, community building, and faculty interaction by focusing on activism, education, leadership opportunities, and reflection
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the development of the new Master of Science in Finance program. He points to the considerable time both he and Brown spent in the business world. They both stress pragmatism. It informs the way they teach, and it underscores the value they place in putting students in situations that focus on real-world business and finance issues. “As much as we can simulate reality, then our students will have an edge,” Boeh said. “So the question is: What can we do to simulate reality?” “One of the lessons
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approaches, the science behind them and how they can be easily and lovingly enacted with great results. Behavioral Approaches: Dr. Vanessa Tucker, Associate Professor of Education, Pacific Lutheran University Neuropsych and Medical Approaches: Holly Galbreath, PhD, Owner of Dr.HG Services, PLLC 2:30-3:30pm – “Race, Racism, Trauma and Anxiety”Dr. Eddie Moore Jr., Founder/Program Director for the global White Privilege Conference (WPC) 3:30-3:45pm – Short Break 3:45-5:00pm – “Anxiety as a Generational
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. Candice Hughes Senior Class Speaker Spring Commencement 2008 A native of Trinidad and Tobago, Candice Hughes came to PLU as a freshman in 2004. She is the first graduate of the university’s recent exchange program with the University of the West Indies. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Geosciences. Hughes spent over a year as an environmental intern for the Port of Tacoma, and studied away in Botswana during spring semester 2008. At PLU, she’s been active in numerous student organizations
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. (Photo courtesy of Andrew Croft) With family and friends, the couple founded PlayUp, and with the board ran a weeklong soccer-empowerment program for 200 children in Namuwongo in Kampala, Uganda. (Before running out of funding, PlayUp also ran a supplemental education program in Namuwongo elementary schools for two years.) “I fell in love with the game again—and with why I fell in love with it,” Croft said. Back in the states, in the winter of 2012, Croft accepted an offer to train with the Tacoma
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the child-welfare system. The topic is a natural fit for PLU—even beyond the Spring Spotlight Series theme. PLU Benson Family Chair in History and Professor of History E. Wayne Carp is a noted historian of adoption and residents in the area whose lives were affected by post-WWII adoption practices pertinent to indigenous children, and Jacobs’ lecture also ties in with the 2015 Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education, held on campus March 4-6, whose topic is “Children’s Voices.” “Up until
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sitting in his first few classes.“Professors were encouraging students to expand our worldviews, take all sorts of different prospectives into account, and challenge what we previously held to be true,” he says. “I was into it from the start.” Wright has successfully embarked on a career at the nexus of the two driving interests with which he arrived at PLU. After graduating magnum cum laude six years ago, he’s worked for an education foundation and an environmental advocacy organization, and now
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Paul Manfredi, 魏朴 CIWA Director, Higher Education, Director of Chinese Studies Program at PLU Full Profile 253-535-7216 manfredi@plu.edu
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Dr. Colleen Hacker takes her class outdoors. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU.) New Banners on CampusHave you noticed the faintly medieval yet very contemporary banners on campus? Each one presents a core element of Lutheran education as practiced or valued at PLU: Critical Questioning, Protecting Freedom, Liberating Study, Learning Together, Care for Creation, Discerning Vocation, Service to Others, Globally Engaged. Each of the eight terms is inspired by the faculty and staff produced booklet Core
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