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We believe that social impact starts when we listen to the needs of a community, share and collaborate with others, and then show that we care by taking action with systemic social innovation. Have you been counted?PLU has been involved with social impact work for generations. But like most colleges and universities, our institution doesn’t have up-to-the-minute data about which projects are currently active and what their outcomes are. Believing that meaningful social impact work begins with
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capitals of Nairobi and London down. His most recent publication in this region is “The Formation of Ethnic Identity in South Omo: The Dassanech” in The Journal of Eastern African Studies, Vol 5 (1) 2011: 195-210. Other recent publications include entries in the Encyclopedia of National Dress, (Vol. 1, Greenwood Press, 2013); the Dictionary of African Biography, (Oxford University Press, 2011); the New Encyclopedia of Africa, (2nd Edition, Gale Group, 2008), and Cultures and Customs of Africa
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mission is understanding and engaging the human experience in the community and in the larger context of the world in which this experience is embodied and lived. Works Cited Jeff Dunn. “Molli Parce on Philosophy and Opera.” Mast Magazine. Volume 1, Issue 4, January 2016 Photo Credit All photos by John FroschauerBack: Cover Story HomepageNext: The Humanities Across Cultures
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educate our military to conduct warfare in a moral and humane way? What is the relationship between the military and civilian cultures? This book is unique in that it focuses largely on the “boots on the ground” questions of how to conduct war and how to prepare our military personnel educationally to conduct wars. By contrast, many books in this field start with the more theoretical question of whether and when the resort to force, that is, the decision to go to war is moral and just. It is not that
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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
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2nd Annual Resource Fair and Summit for Veterans, Spouses and Dependents November 14, 2015 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Chris Knutzen Hall, Anderson University Center, Pacific Lutheran University FREE Pacific Lutheran University, along with the Tacoma Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta, Inc. Social Action Committee, invites veterans and those who support the veteran community to a Veterans Resource Summit & Fair on the campus of PLU. Representatives from a number of local and regional organizations
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in other cultures and allow them to examine the complexity of global issues from other local, national and regional perspectives. However, not all PLU students are able to take advantage of these study away programs. Even with 50 percent of every PLU graduating class participating in a study away program for a month or more (the national average is under 3 percent) it means nearly 50 percent do not. For these students we need to bring the world to them and the campus, and the symposia are part of
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. I came here intended to study exercise. It really changed my path being up here and working with these people.” But the Diversity Center hasn’t always been the resource for students that it is today. When the center began in 2001, it had a lot of programs that resembled Diversity 101, said Eva Johnson, Dean of Student Development and Director of Student Involvement and Leadership. The intent was for students to learn about different cultures and start conversations about diversity. “We spent a
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Employer and Position EligibilityPacific Lutheran University (PLU) employer policies provide a framework to determine eligibility of an employing organization or individual to utilize all on-campus and virtual employer services from the Alumni & Student Connections Office, in accordance with the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) Principles for Professional Conduct and PLU campus policy. Opportunities defined as service or volunteerism are bound by the policies written in
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University as part of a longer tour of U.S. schools hosted by Chinese “agent” EduKeys, sat at tables arranged in a rectangle, with all the Beijing students facing outward, expectantly. After a few key talks—including one from Professor David Huelsbeck on his time spent studying the Makah tribe of Neah Bay—a mass of PLU students was ushered in and seated across from the waiting students. During the exercise, the Lutes and the Chinese students exchanged ideas about how their cultures intersect, using
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