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  • Revisiting the Visiting Writer Series: the 15th Anniversary Edition https://www.plu.edu/prism/news/revisiting-the-visiting-writer-series-the-15th-anniversary-edition/

    learn from the writers and the questions students ask them at these events.”  After fifteen years, the Series continues to create a space for the PLU and Parkland communities to experience wonderful expressions of art and gain valuable lessons from incredible writers and teachers. Environmental Ethics at Holden VillageParkland Literacy Center Read Previous Greetings from the Dean 2020 Read Next Waist-Deep in Mud: Engaging with Tradition through a J-Term Course in Honolulu LATEST POSTS Gaps and Gifts

  • The Two Desks https://www.plu.edu/prism/news/the-two-desks/

    the Pandemic Read Next Being a Scholar-Teacher and a Teacher-Scholar 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

  • Waist-Deep in Mud: Engaging with Tradition through a J-Term Course in Honolulu https://www.plu.edu/prism/news/waist-deep-in-mud-engaging-with-tradition-through-a-j-term-course-in-honolulu/

    of Captain Cook and western colonizers, the once prevalent cultivation of kalo dwindled dangerously while Native Hawaiʻians were killed by Western diseases and their land was stolen and repurposed. Sharing Passion through ScholarshipEnvironmental Ethics at Holden Village Read Previous Revisiting the Visiting Writer Series: the 15th Anniversary Edition Read Next Environmental Ethics at Holden Village LATEST POSTS Gaps and Gifts May 26, 2022 Academic Animals: Making Nonhuman Creatures Matter in

  • New Student To-Do’s https://www.plu.edu/nso/new-student-checklist/

    scholarships have a matching scholarship from your church or through Scholarship America/Dollars for Scholars are a recipient of the Washington State College Grant There are important steps that you must take to finalize your financial aid. Visit the Student Financial Services ‘New Student Financial Aid Steps’ webpage to review and complete these steps.New Student Financial Aid StepsSign up for electronic billing — August 1Financial Services will send monthly electronic billing statements to your PLU email

  • PLU Student Emergency Fund https://www.plu.edu/advancement/student-emergency-fund/

    the latest on the PLU Student Emergency Fund campaign page. Gifts of ALL sizes make a difference. For instance, $50 covers a student’s Internet bill for a month. $1,000 can help a student’s family cover one month of rent. If you’re able, please give what you can today.  How else is PLU supporting students during this time? In addition to emergency financial assistance, PLU is: Supporting non-financial student needs through the Student CARE Network Supporting academic student needs through distance

  • Speakers https://www.plu.edu/lutheran-studies-conference-2022/speakers/

    architecture, and Christian rituals. He has taught in PLU’s International Honors Program and has led student and regent study tours in Rome and central Italy. PLU Faculty ProfileSince 2005, he has led faculty, staff, and student workshops on the liberal arts and higher education, published extensively on the origins, development, and gifts of Lutheran higher education, and represented PLU at international conferences in ritual studies and reformation studies. Dr. Torvend served as the first University

  • Marking 500 Years of Lutheran Education https://www.plu.edu/lutheran-studies/marking-500-years-of-lutheran-education/

    persons and groups who suffer in society. Rather than view education as a private avenue to personal advancement, they argued that educated leaders have a primary responsibility to others: to use their education for the alleviation of human suffering and injustice. These are some of the gifts of the Lutheran intellectual tradition and the reform of education: a reform that is imperfect, a reform that is ongoing, a reform that welcomes many voices. Rather than see the university as a place in which

  • Gates Sr. urges students to ‘Show up’ https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2009/09/22/gates-sr-urges-students-to-show-up/

    Gates Foundation, and serves as the advocate for the foundation’s key issues, which includes education and world health, with a particular focus on HIV/AIDS and malaria prevention. Tuesday night, Gates spoke on campus about his new book, “Showing up for Life, Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime.” In small vignettes, Gates discusses lessons learned growing up in Bremerton, Wash., serving in WWII, getting his law degree, marrying, raising a family, and now of course, being father to one of the most

  • Wild Hope Center for Vocation awarded grant to establish new faculty/staff institute https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2021/06/21/wild-hope-center-grant/

    community? Vocation is one of the special gifts that PLU offers because it connects us to our Lutheran roots and helps us all think broadly and holistically about the purposes of our work and commitments to others and the environment. Some faculty have already built vocation into their teaching and mentoring, and the institute will provide a way for us to share the good work that is already being done and to deepen it further. Right now, some students have the opportunity to seriously engage with

  • Archivist Reflects on 50 Years at PLU ‹ Resolute Online: Fall 2015 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/fall-2015/kerstin-ringdahl/

    marking her 50th year at PLU—and it’s hard to imagine any one person who knows PLU better. My 50 Years at Pacific Lutheran University Ringdahl, now University Archivist and Curator of Special Collections (still based in the library), could be gathering golden gifts for this milestone, but instead she has created one: a slideshow called “My 50 Years at PLU,” which chronicles the history of PLU and Ringdahl’s role in it. In presentations around campus, Ringdahl narrates this shared history with an