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Laila’s Story – Trinidad & Tobago Social Work (Women’s and Gender Studies and Peace Corps Prep minors) – Class of 2019 What she would like other students to know: My time in Trinidad and Tobago was by far my most challenging and rewarding semester during my time at PLU. I experienced so much, both good and bad, and not only learned a lot about a beautiful new country, but also about my self. As a white person traveling to a country of black and brown people with a complicated and painful

unmotivated, Taylor-Mosquera would remind himself of the generational poverty and lack of educational opportunities he’d witnessed during his sojourns back to Colombia. “I would say to myself ‘if they are in the kind of situation they are, and I get to be here, then I really need to get it together.’” Eventually, an introductory Hispanic literary studies course — taught by Carmiña Palerm, associate professor of Hispanic studies — eliminated his indecision, and Taylor-Mosquera was back on track. “It was

faculty members helps students become entrenched in their studies. Through student-faculty research, students incorporate their own experiences with academia in a way that Lewis says improves critical thinking, writing and understanding of students’ subjects of interest. Cynthia Waite '20 Waite’s project, a study of faculty-student mentoring, caught the spirit of the day. Psychology Professor Wendelyn Shore, an expert on the topic, was Waite’s mentor, and was intrigued to hear Waite characterized

By Mollie Smith ’17 and Mandi LeCompte Jennifer Rhyne first came to PLU in 2005 when her husband, Jim Brown, was offered a job as the chair of voice studies in the Department of Music. In her first few years, she taught a few flute students, but as the years went by her responsibilities eventually grew to include instructing theory classes and directing the flute ensemble. In 2015 a full-time, tenure-track position for a flute and theory professor opened, and a national search ensued. Rhyne

- ES NAIS 244 Environmental Justice and Indigenous People - ES, GE NAIS 250 Introduction to Native American & Indigenous Studies - ES, GE NAIS 363 Race and Indigeneity - ES, GE PHIL 248 Innovation, Ethics, & Society - ES POLS 151 American Government - ES POLS 231 Current International Issues - ES, GE POLS 265 Latino Politics - ES, GE POLS 345 Government and Public Policy - ES POLS 346 Environmental Politics and Policy - ES, GE POLS 354 State and Local Government - ES POLS 361 Political Parties and

outreach education programs. EDUC 403: Building Professional Learning Communities (2) EDUC 404: The Integration of Literacy in Social Studies (3) EDUC 407: Writing Across the Curriculum (2) SPED 404: Collaboration, Team Building, and Supervision (2) EDUC 495: Internship (placement in an outreach education program) (10 hrs) EDUC 450: Seminar – SR (2)

the United Nations General Assembly on the International Day of Holocaust Remembrance, to highlight their focus on “Women in the Holocaust”. Her other honors include a Guggenheim fellowship; membership at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton; a Fulbright Fellowship in Israel; the Kroener fellowship in Holocaust studies at Oxford University; and fellowships from Ford, Rockefeller, NSF, and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in the United States. In 2007 she received a national medal as a

. Can IHON work with my major?Yes, absolutely! IHON students have majored and minored in every program at PLU, from Biology to Global Studies, Nursing to English, Business to Education. Because IHON courses are interdisciplinary, they work well with all majors.  We offer courses every semester, including January term, so that we can accommodate highly scheduled majors like Nursing and Education.  In fact, IHON students often find IHON easier to fit into the major than the other Gen Ed because it

email a request at oira@plu.edu . Be sure to include detailed information about your data needs, such as the type of data, time frame, and purpose. Once submitted, our team will review your request and get back to you with the next steps. What is the difference between Retention and Persistence? Retention typically refers to the percentage of students who continue their studies at the same institution from one year to the next. Persistence generally refers to the continuation of a student’s

-- select a category to move to -- Students Show more information about these links First-Year PLU purposely integrates the liberal arts, professional studies and civic engagement. About 2,800 undergraduate students are enrolled at the university. Transfer PLU offers a number of direct transfer degree opportunities from community colleges, that provide automatic junior status upon enrolling at the university. Graduate Graduate programs include offerings in Business, Education, Fine Arts