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International Communication With China’s rise on the global stage, China’s international communication has come to the forefront of its relations with other countries, especially the western world which has been defining roles and functions of international media. In recent years, China has realized the importance of strengthening its strategies, and improving its modes of international communication, such that it can better adapt to its changing position in the world and more effectively respond to

semester and down that way is dr. yeah classes office he helped or he wrote me a letter of recommendation for when I was applying to medical school and he’s also part of the pre-health advising team that helps our students apply to medical school in dental school and better nurse and then over here who’s dr. Lyle’s office he helped me build a course where I could study chemistry while I was studying away in the UK talking with your faculty members and the long Center for global education and planning

most rapid periods of global expansion. Prior to Nike, Gibbs was director of public relations at Mattel, Inc., where she was a member of an integrated brand marketing team devoted to reaching the billion-dollar milestone for Barbie worldwide sales. Gibbs began her corporate career at Apple as a public relations manager. Gibbs graduated with a bachelor’s degree in communications arts and sciences from Michigan State University. Gibbs and her husband live in Gig Harbor with her spoiled standard

engage with indigenous communities, stories and worldviews at the regional, national, hemispheric and global levels. Most human diversity is found in indigenous contexts. One example: 5,000 of the world’s 6,000 languages are indigenous. The NAIS Program at PLU uses that diversity to structure curriculum and classroom learning practices. The idea is not to present indigenous peoples as museum-like objects, but to engage with them as living, vibrant communities. More info about NAIS This spring, she

by each faculty member. The grades are then processed by the Office of the Registrar. Study abroad grades are processed by the Office of the Registrar when they are received from the Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education. Study abroad grades for courses taught by non-PLU faculty are listed as pass or fail (P/F) with the actual letter grade recorded as well (for example, PA-, PC+, or PE). How do students use the pass/fail option?To pass/fail a course, a student must complete the

junior faculty members, forged strong relationships with community partners, and chaired the department for several years. She was also a highly engaged faculty leader throughout her years at PLU, chairing the Educational Policy Committee and sitting on the Summer Academy Task Force, Long Range Planning Committee, Admission and Retention of Students Committee, and Strategic Enrollment Management Advisory Committee. “She was a gifted, creative, innovative, insightful, and dedicated instructor,” says

question that my generation asked in the classroom was this: ‘Is our study politically and socially relevant?’ ” Torvend said. “Today, I find a good number of students wondering if the courses I teach will be ‘fun’ while some students, aware of global warming, American racism, and income disparity, are really searching for ways to engage in the work of social justice.” The most significant part of his PLU education involved working with his professors. “They turned out to be remarkable mentors who

, 2016)- Joshua Cushman ’08 stood in front of a crowd at the Wang Center Symposium last month and recalled his childhood in which nobody asked him about his future. The Tacoma native was the product of a broken home, plagued by poverty, violence and abuse. Cushman was one of several speakers who discussed resilience, in the seventh biennial event at Pacific Lutheran University that aimed to stimulate serious thinking on the global challenge. Cushman told attendees that his negative experiences as a

MapAn overview map route of the trail taking you from Canada to Mexico. Struggles are a constant: Woodsmith averages about 18 miles per day. She left her husband, PLU alumnus Nat Woodsmith ’09, behind for much of the trip. Her feet grew two sizes in just a week of hiking the trail. She can only pack what she can carry; her backpack weighs a maximum of 36 pounds at any given time. And some sections of the trail are void of water. “The most challenging thing has been water management,” Woodsmith said

years at the helm of Outdoor Rec, the program continued to grow and evolve. During the ’97-98 school year, OR expanded to weeklong trips, one to Montana for skiing and another to Oregon’s Smith Rock for climbing. Wade also began running a basic staff training that discussed risk management in the outdoors, and he held periodic wilderness medicine mini-seminars that addressed what incidents could arise outdoors and how to handle them. “For a lot of us, it was our first foray into real leadership