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  • teaching Caribbean literature and history.  Altogether, we have 34 students, plus staff assistance from PLU Head Baker Erica Fickeisen for the first week; Dr. Miller’s Assistant, Julie Paulsen, for the second week; and PLU Director of Dining and Culinary Services Erin McGinnis for the third week.  Most of our class time is spent in separate classrooms in the conference center of the ship, but we gather both classes the night before each new port of call for “Port Reports”:  the literature students

  • PLU announces Carol Sheffels Quigg Award winners Pacific Lutheran University is pleased to announce the winners of The Carol Sheffels Quigg Award for Excellence and Innovation, established by alumna and regent Carol Quigg, whose endowment funds the awards. The Quigg Awards provide support for faculty, staff, and students who have demonstrated unusually… December 21, 2022 News, Announcements, Accolades

  • September 4, 2011 A blue heron ignores student paparazzi and continues to look for a midmorning snack at Northwest Trek. First-years have a close encounter on the wild side with the critters at Northwest Trek By Katie Scaff ’13 The sights, sounds, and even smells of local wildlife helped first-year students bond and get to know one another on an excursion to Northwest Trek Wildlife Park near Eatonville on Saturday. The group of 46 students, staff and faculty started the day with a tram tour of

  • your advisor or check out the Center for Student Success Get More Stuff Done days (Nov 6 & 7, 10a-1:30p, AUC Gray Area).

  • provides other opportunities for him to consult, lecture and publish on the role of Lutheran higher education in linking academic study and ethical commitments. In addition, income from the endowment will fund a yearly Lutheran Studies Conference at PLU, the first of which took place last September. All that is great for the university. But Torvend speaks even more enthusiastically about what the chair will mean for the students, faculty and staff of PLU. He likes to talk about placing the Lutheran

  • Pacific Lutheran University . . . understands and identifies itself as a Christian university in view of its Lutheran heritage, ownership and governance, mission, and educational philosophy. formalizes this identity as a Lutheran—and so, Christian—university in part through the provision of regular opportunities for worship (University Chapel and the University Congregation) and through the support of campus ministry staffed by Lutheran clergy (Campus Ministry Office). actively encourages the

  • to its students.” – Dale, Billings, MT “Our grandson attends the university so we want to show support.” – Don and Yvonne, Tacoma, WA “Because I wouldn’t change my time at PLU for anything, and it wouldn’t have been possible without scholarships!” – Jennifer, St. Louis Park, MN “My PLU education prepared me for a life of professional service and meaningful relationships. I am grateful for the knowledge, friendships, and personal enrichment that was offered during my four years at PLU.” – Lara

  • facing difficult and uncertain times in our future and it’s all related to the environment,” said Pavel, whose traditional name is CHiXapkaid. “We need to connect to those animal people and we need to connect to those plant people.” Pavel lead a special presentation for Earth Day, entitled “Connecting to Everything on Earth: Its Land, Waters, and Peoples (Plant, Animal, and Human),” on Tuesday, April 17, in the Scandinavian Cultural Center. Rather than telling the hundred-some students, staff

  • Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Lutheran World Federation, PLU is connected to an international consortium of institutes, schools, colleges, universities, seminaries, and study centers in which education for leadership, service, and care for others and the earth shapes a common life and mission. Lutheran Studies at PLU welcomes students, faculty, staff, and alumni into this global network, into the significant dialogue between cultures as we engage the pressing economic, political, and

  • Course Development Stipends For new or existing courses in the Innovation Studies Minor With the generous support of donors to the Innovation Studies program, the INOV Steering Committee invites all PLU faculty to submit a proposal for a stipend to support the development of a new or existing course in the Innovation Studies minor. Options include teaching a current course (such as Innovation, Ethics, and Society or Innovation Seminar), or developing a new course that can serve as a Principles