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to go! HUNGRY? Optional: Dinner on your own4:30PM-7:30PMAnderson University Center (AUC) Commons & Old Main Market (OMM) LUTE Welcome (Continued): The First Six WeeksThe first six weeks is a critical time in a new semester for new and continuing students alike to get rooted and set their routines so they can THRIVE at PLU! Below is a list of Welcome Week events and other highlighted activities in the first six weeks of fall 2024 semester to get you started! Throughout the academic year, check out

the scenes than at center stage. And he spent the bulk of his professional life doing good work that propped up the people around him. “I love being the numbers geek,” he said, reminiscing about his 24-year career in banking before coming to PLU four years ago. “I’ve spent most of my career making the person in front of me look good. And I’m OK with that.” Corporate leaders weren’t complaining, either, he joked. But despite focusing on education, nonprofits and health care organizations at the end

encounter daily in class and in the PLU community. Getting a group together last spring for “Carry That Weight” was incredibly moving and really showed me the amount of commitment and care this community has for the feminist movement. (The event was spurred by Emma Sulkowicz’s performance art piece at Columbia University where she vowed to carry a mattress until her rapist was expelled or left the university. Sulkowicz carried the mattress until the end of the year, including at her graduation ceremony

UCLA or anywhere in the world. But it is our story — a PLU story. Maybe someone in your circle has such a story. Ask them. And if they do, ask them to tell it. Stories such as ours, and hopefully such as yours, are important — memories are sometimes all we have left of each other. One of my favorite memories is of the last time the four of us visited Doug in his room at a memory care facility. Hanging on the wall were pictures of his children, his medical degree, and a photograph of the five of us

health care organizations at the end of his time with Bank of America, Belton’s work felt incomplete. He missed the early days with Seafirst Bank, before the corporate acquisition, when community was king and he was eager to brag — on and off the clock — about customer-first programs that made him proud to work there. The BeltonsAllan and Melinda on campus at Pacific Lutheran University. His need for meaningful work prompted him to look elsewhere, just as PLU was searching for a CFO. It was the

from Pierce College, with a wedding and a baby in between. After five years working in the medical field and welcoming her second child, she thought she would go back to school for nursing. “I had an epiphany,” she said. “I can do this, but I don’t know that I should do this.” So, she didn’t. After eight years as a stay-at-home mom, Winer went back to work in K-12 education. She worked a laundry list of jobs at Cascade Christian Schools in Puyallup, from administrative assistant positions to

her white friends, she says in hindsight. She sacrificed the health of her hair to make them feel comfortable, and the damage went deeper than her roots and split ends. “I don’t care for my hair when it’s straight,” she said. “When it’s out and big, it’s me being myself.” When Urgessa talks about the stages of her hair, it’s more than a statement about fashion or beauty. It’s a symbol of her constant identity struggle, an indicator of the growth she’s made as an international student at Pacific

end of calendar year. Shred Other Copies: Any Office/Lab Retention: 6 years after corrective action taken. Shred Animal Subjects Research Includes Animal Subjects Approval form and supporting documents, certified by investigator that project accurately describes all aspects of proposed animal usage. Also includes official approval memo from Animal Care and Use Committee, renewal forms, and related notes and correspondence. Documents approval for the use of animals for both grant and non-grant

carry additional fees above the tuition (i.e., labs, discussions). There is no price difference between online and in-person classes. What is the graduate tuition for Summer Sessions?The tuition for non-cohort graduate-level courses varies among the programs.  Students in cohort programs (Business, Education, and Nursing) should contact the respective program upon their admission. What is the tuition for courses through the Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education?Tuition and fees for

with the Peace Corps and other international or domestic service programs. And this is just the next step for PLU and the Peace Corps. More than 260 Lutes have served in the Peace Corps alone, and even more have joined service programs such as AmeriCorps, Lutheran Volunteer Corps and Jesuit Volunteer Corps. PLU is one of three universities in Washington state to offer a Peace Corps Prep Certificate Program. “I think fits so well with the mission and PLU’s focus on care and creating a community of