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McConnell. “As we navigate the range of opportunities and challenges ahead, it is more critical than ever that we continue to come together as a campus community to build a culture of constructive, self-reflective monitoring and continuous improvement. I am honored and excited to be in this role and to be able to fully focus my energy and effort on our shared success.” Provost Joanna Gregson, who will be working closely with McConnell, agrees. “Mission fulfillment is at the heart of everything we do

and security operations, and as a liaison to off-campus partners critical to security and emergency planning. He also plans to partner with students, staff, and faculty members across campus to cultivate and sustain an anti-racist, welcoming, safe and inclusive approach to campus safety.  “There are important conversations to be had about the role, function, and contributions of campus safety, and José is a leader who understands the urgency of these considerations and embraces dialogue, listening

have extraordinarily innovative ideas about how to expand and add nuance to how we engage critical questions as a learning community working in intentional collaboration with local, regional and international partners. There’s a lot of exciting work ahead.” This article is one of a four-part series on faculty innovators in the latest issue of ResoLute Magazine. Read about faculty innovators  Renzhi Cao, Cameron Bennett and Karen McConnell. Read Previous Lute Powered: Amazon Read Next Faculty

Falls, Montana. “I love New York,” she says. “I love the people here. I love the energy, and I love the possibilities within the work that I do.” Her career was set in motion thanks to PLU’s expansive approach to critical inquiry and learning. “That’s something I just really cherish PLU for,” she says. “The space for ambiguity and having it be okay to not necessarily know what you want out of life at 18, and the support to explore where your curiosity leads you. To find where your skills best align

legitimizing students’ Spanish language abilities is evident, as she provides them with the tools to expand their linguistic repertoires. A colleague described Davidson’s teaching as transcending conventional boundaries. They wrote that “her courses destabilize fixed notions of identity and prompt students to critically examine history and culture. The transformative impact of her teaching is palpable, as students emerge empowered and equipped with a critical perspective that challenges oppressive dynamics

November 1, 2010 Consolidating our strengths and addressing new challenges PLU President Loren J. Anderson greets students during opening convocation. He believes the next few years will be critical as PLU plans for its future. By Loren J. Anderson – PLU President The public announcement last month of the university’s new fund-raising effort, “Engage the World: The Campaign for PLU,” sets out one of two critical initiatives that the campus community will be undertaking over the next two years

primacy of reason—is rooted in the great reform and revolution sparked by Luther’s protest and his thinking and writing. We are his heirs and I’m sure he would be proud of Pacific Lutheran University. Getting the Word Out I know you’ve been accustomed to hearing a “state of the university” address at Fall Conference, but I thought this year you might prefer to hear instead of my impressions of PLU life so far, my initial sense of our opportunities and challenges, and some sense of where we might be

​Yamamoto Sensei, the consultant and advisor to Tamana Band, to discuss Japanese teaching styles. “He is very philosophical and responses to questions can be a bit of a winding path. I really enjoyed this thinking journey with him,” Gerhardstein remarked. “At one point he said ‘perfect preparation and attention to small details are the key to success.’ I have heard this before but it meant more to me coming from someone in a different culture. Attention to detail is evident in literally everything that

of the students who will take part in this premiere were even born yet when these things became part of PLU history. It’s important for them to know this past, too.” Asked how it happened that Fanfare, Fantasia and Finale was written so long before the anniversaries it was meant to celebrate, Kracht said, “I had been thinking about these two significant creations—Dr. Meyer’s march and the Mary Baker Russell Music Center—and realized their fiftieth and twenty-fifth anniversaries, respectively

factors like the number of users and geographic interference. Thousands of students nationwide compete in the contest every year. The students spent Thursday to Monday, figuring out what problem to address based on their team members knowledge, researching models (including looking at White on YouTube, frame by frame), testing their models and then writing 10 to 20 pages explaining their model and how they came up with it. “It’s a lot of thinking and sitting,” said Kyle Burns ’11, whose team took on