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  • InformationWang Symposium More InformationRachel Carson Lecture Watch VideoPowell Heller Conference Watch VideosDale Benson Lecture Watch the VideoLutheran Studies Conference Watch the VideosWorkshopsContinuing Education at Pacific Lutheran University offers a variety of professional development courses and programs to meet the needs of business professionals and life-long learners. Discounts for the workshops below are available for PLU alumni, students and current employees. Contact Continuing Education at

  • Dr. Mallory Mann Associate Professor of Kinesiology Phone: 253-535-7743 Email: mannmf@plu.edu Office Location: Olson Auditorium Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Department Chair of Kinesiology Education Ph.D., Bowling Green State University, 2016 M.S., Miami University, 2009 B.A., Pacific Lutheran University, 2006 Biography Mallory initially joined the Kinesiology department on a 1.5 year appointment as a Visiting Instructor in January of 2014. Since then she completed her Ph.D

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  • Dr. Mallory Mann Department Chair of Kinesiology Phone: 253-535-7743 Email: mannmf@plu.edu Office Location: Olson Auditorium Professional Biography Additional Titles/Roles Associate Professor of Kinesiology Education Ph.D., Bowling Green State University, 2016 M.S., Miami University, 2009 B.A., Pacific Lutheran University, 2006 Biography Mallory initially joined the Kinesiology department on a 1.5 year appointment as a Visiting Instructor in January of 2014. Since then she completed her Ph.D

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  • Jes Takla Associate Dean for Campus Life, Co-Curricular Learning, and Assessment Phone: 253-535-7597 Email: jes.takla@plu.edu Professional Biography Education M.A., College Student Personnel, Bowling Green State University B.F.A., Photography & Fiber Material Studies, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Selected Publications Takla, J. (2015, February). Living the learning: It starts with TLC (themed learning communities). Living the learning: It starts with TLC (themed learning communities

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  • the ratings. Given the un-nuanced proposals coming out of the US Dept of Ed so far, it looks like the proposals will do great harm to colleges that try to provide access to low income students, or have programs in areas like social work, education, social entrepreneurship, and counseling that tend not to lead to high-paying jobs. College is not just a job skills factory. The fact that this proposed ranking system is opposed by presidents and faculty members from the full range of colleges–from

  • Tacoma Immersion Experience Semester discontinued Posted by: hassonja / December 13, 2017 Image: Downtown Tacoma for TIES study away program on Monday, June 6, 2016. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) December 13, 2017 TIES Program Update from Joel Zylstra (Director, Center for Community Engagement and Service) The Tacoma Immersion Experience Semester (TIES) program has been discontinued indefinitely. TIES served as one expression of PLU’s long-term commitments to linking global education with our

  • November 1, 2010 From PLU to a one-room school house, instructor sees value in great instruction By Chris Albert As a teacher for 35 years, Margaret Dakan ’38 saw the difference an education could make in a person’s life. Her belief in the kind of education Pacific Lutheran University provides is why she has supported the university through scholarship programs like Q Club, Project Access and an endowed scholarship that benefits education students: the Margaret Melver Dakan Endowed Scholarship

  • Thad Williams CIWA Director, K-12, International Education Administrator managing dual language and world language in Seattle Public Schools. Phone: 206.252.0191 Email: tbwilliams@seattleschools.org Biography Biography Dr. Thad Williams is the Director of the K-12 Confucius Institute of Washington. He is in his second year as director after taking over from the now retired Dr. Michele Aoki. Thad works closely with co-director Dongmei Huang to support K-12 CIWA projects and Confucius Classrooms

  • Dean Butterworth U.S. Park Ranger, Outreach and Education Specialist, Olympic National Park Biography Biography Dean Butterworth is the Outreach and Education Specialist at Olympic 
National Park. Dean began his career in the National Park Service as a
volunteer at Golden Gate National Recreation Area in 1998. Working for the 
National Park Service is a dream fulfilled and has allowed him to work, 
live, and play in the Sierra Nevada, Pacific Northwest, Greater
 Yellowstone, and the Colorado

  • two years – logging over 400 hours – before deciding to branch off in a new direction and enlisting the help of fellow science geeks Mark Lee ’13, an applied physics major, and triple-threat Mimi Granlund ’13, an arts, physics and math major. The threesome needed to build their own system, which consisted of a cylinder capped with a sandpaper disc to act as a “tongue.” The cylinder would plunge into water and then be lifted out through a pulley system. This would be photographed by a high-speed