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Founders of the Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education, Peter and Grace WangThe Wang Center opened in 2002 thanks to the vision of donors Peter (’60) and Grace Wang. With their endowment gift, the Wangs have emphasized the role education can play in building a more peaceful world and recognized an opportunity to further PLU’s ability to prepare students for lives of leadership and service in an interconnected world. Both are first-generation Americans. Peter Wang graduated from

the value of literature and writing is even more paramount as we move forward, because it’s acting as kind of a resistance to forces in our culture that want to reduce or simplify experience,” Barot said. “What literature does is restore complexity to the things that people feel and do and think, and celebrate complex emotional, social, intellectual experiences.” As for the future of the Rainier Writing Workshop, Barot looks backward and forward, always with the founders’ vision—and achievements

of the Undergraduate Curriculum: A Comprehensive Guide to Purposes, Structures, Practices, and Change. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 1997. Greater Expectations National Panel. Greater Expectations: A New Vision for Learning as a Nation Goes to College. Washington, D.C.: AAC&U, 2002. Hofstadter, Richard. Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. New York: Vintage Books, 1963. Kimball, Bruce. Orators & Philosophers: A History of the Idea of Liberal Education. New York: Teachers College, Columbia

The Spring 2024 History Capstone Class (Prof. Gina Hames). Photo credit: M. Halvorson The History Department is pleased to present the 2024 Spring Capstones Saturday, May 18th – Xavier Hall, Room 201 – 9:00 am-3:00 pm Click on each student name to see their presentation title. 9:00-10:00 am - RELIGION - Comment: Dr. Michael HalvorsonAdam SeifredMaddie GebhardOlivia DotyAdam SeifredThe Role of Martyrdom in Furthering the Goals of the Early Christian ChurchMaddie Gebhard``More of a Family Now

Mae Ngai The 45th Annual Walter C. Schnackenberg Memorial Lecture “Mother of Exiles”— Refugees in American Myth and History Speaker: Mae Ngai Time: 7:00 p.m. Date: Monday, March 11, 2019 Place: Xavier 201 This event is free and open to the public

about how the Holocaust would be taught at a Lutheran University, but after auditing Professor Browning’s class he understood how scholars studied and taught the Holocaust. In his memoir, My Personal Brush with History, Kurt wrote, “The fact that a university founded by Norwegian Lutherans would teach the evils of Nazism and spare no one who was guilty from being exposed was for me the key.” He was also impressed with the school’s commitment to valuing life, faith and service to others. “PLU is a

about how the Holocaust would be taught at a Lutheran University, but after auditing Professor Browning’s class he understood how scholars studied and taught the Holocaust. In his memoir, My Personal Brush with History, Kurt wrote, “The fact that a university founded by Norwegian Lutherans would teach the evils of Nazism and spare no one who was guilty from being exposed was for me the key.” He was also impressed with the school’s commitment to valuing life, faith and service to others. “PLU is a

skeptical about how the Holocaust would be taught at a Lutheran University, but after auditing Professor Browning’s class he understood how scholars studied and taught the Holocaust. In his memoir, My Personal Brush with History, Kurt wrote, “The fact that a university founded by Norwegian Lutherans would teach the evils of Nazism and spare no one who was guilty from being exposed was for me the key.” He was also impressed with the school’s commitment to valuing life, faith and service to others. “PLU