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town’s annual Strawberry Festival on Saturday, June 4, 2011. Two weeks earlier the deadliest tornado in our nation’s history ripped through Joplin, Mo., killing 160 people and causing almost $3 billion in damage. Today our goal was to interview any survivors and relief workers we could find. We figured the best place to find people would be in the center of the devastation. I was traveling the country researching for a documentary on compassion fatigue, an issue that particularly affects caregivers
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deported.” He immediately applied and helped his two brothers and friends apply. He was familiar with government forms from years of doing his parents’ taxes. “When it came out I applied and that allowed me to be more secure in a way that I was able to more freely talk about who I am,” Kim said. “My history, my story as well as my status.” Kim is just one of many students who attend PLU with undocumented or DACA status. The official number is not known in an effort to protect the security and privacy
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A Statement from Founder Dr. Peter C.C. Wang:A First Decade of International Activities When on September 11, 2001, the U.S suffered the worst terrorist attack in its history, Dr. Peter C. C. Wang was shocked and then motivated with a deeply felt sense of urgency that he needed to act to promote world peace. He and his wife, Dr. Grace C. Wang decided to make a significant financial gift to his alma mater, Pacific Lutheran University, to establish what is today the “Wang Center for Global and
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new search results Save/delete your search history Create lists of resources that you can categorize and save for later Citation chaining Many articles that you locate through PRIMO will have one or two sets of red arrows next to the usual sharing/saving icons: Upwards branching arrow: Use to locate articles that have cited the article. Downwards joining arrow: Use to locate articles that are cited within the article. While this feature can be quite useful to identify similar articles, it is
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Alumni Award Endowed Scholarship Mary Jane Aram Endowed Scholarship Donna Arbaugh Scholarship in Environmental Studies George Arbaugh Philosophy Scholarship Clifford & Lydia Arntson Endowed Scholarship Hedvig Arthur Memorial Endowed Scholarship AURA / Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Endowed Scholarship Esther Westby Aus Education Scholarship Fund Olive Anderson-Aust and Gerald Aust Endowed Scholarship Marguerite and Wilmer Baer Endowed Scholarship Elbert H. Baker II and Janice M. Baker Endowed Music
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our 83 percent first-year retention rate — a number we’re poised to improve upon next year with a goal of reaching 87% in the next three years. Endowment Performance And the good news continues! For the first time in PLU history, our endowment reached over 100 million dollars earlier this year – and continues to grow! Our students have the lowest four-year student debt of any private school in Washington and PLU was ranked number one for job placement among all Washington schools. We are making it
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passionately backs that fight. “Classics is the foundation of our knowledge, our history, our philosophy and how we make sense of the world we live in now,” said Dobyns, who graduated in 2001 and credits his self-directed film major and his overall professional success to the classics at PLU. “Without that foundation, we have no grounding in why the world is the way it is.” O’Brien and division leaders across the university are now tasked with responding to those preliminary recommendations, part of an
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colleague described Emily’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 and amplifies marginalized voices.” Emily’s dedication to fostering a supportive community is evident in the words of her students. One
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in collaborating in on-going or continual engagement? PLU Center for Community Engagement and Service Primary Partners (community organizations that we have intentionally developed strong partnerships with because of proximity, alignment of values, and history of working with PLU faculty and students) PLU Center for Community Engagement and Service County-wide partners (community organizations that we have some form of relationships with-this list covers a broader array of geographical and
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. Finally, my students are free. The asceticism of teaching entails respecting their freedom.While respecting the freedom of my students is prior to all else in teaching humanities, there still is much that I do to invite them into the space where the power of the humanities resides. I introduce them to the field of American religious history in the most engaging way possible, letting them see my own fascination with it. l show them issues; require them to translate material from one frame of reference
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