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program.​​Relationships are the core of the PLU experience. By the time they graduate, PLU students have a team of mentors they can call on for support. For graduate students, mentorship is built into various program cohort models. Here are just a couple of examples of mentorship and career development opportunities at PLU. For Master of Fine Arts students, they have access to The Rainier Writing Workshop — a community of talented, mature, and independent writers, working in an atmosphere in which

when she would take students to lower campus, she was not exactly ashamed of the facilities, but she knew they were nothing to boast about. That, she said, has changed. She notices that prospective students, athletes or not, have an interest in the continued development and upgrades to the athletic facilities. “People like to see that progress is happening,” she said. That progress will benefit everybody. Even though the new soccer field was open only to PLU’s athletes this fall, come spring, it is

populations of students, engage lifelong learning partners through meaningful professional development, and foster cross-sector collaboration on issues related to student access and readiness. “It’s important that, if we want a strong democracy, we must have inclusion from all voices,” Chavez said. Inclusion of all voices is paramount to educational success for all students, marginalized or otherwise, she added. “The more connected we are, the better able we are to improve society. Diversity in profession

of dual-language students, a population that has been marginalized,” says Teah Bergstrom, director of partnerships and professional development in the PLU Department of Education.  “For students to be successful, the endorsement is a good opportunity for teachers to gain skills, whether they’re teaching in a fully bilingual classroom, or using their skills in a traditional classroom to help bilingual students.”  “The virtual format has allowed more opportunity,” Bergstrom says, as evidenced by

300 scientists from more than 20 countries work in teams, studying plant biology in ways that lead to economically and environmentally sustainable agriculture. Laurie-Berry started teaching at PLU in the fall of 2008. In addition to Plant Physiology, Laurie-Berry’s other classes include Plant Development and Genetic Engineering and a first-year writing class focused on global agriculture, world hunger, genetic engineering and related topics. “Our central question for the course is how agriculture

definitely care about you and your growth as a learner, a person, and a historian. Whether you are starting your first year, your second, or your third, welcome!We wanted to catch up with some of our History alumni who are continuing their educations in graduate school and reached out (again) to Carli Snyder, ’17, one of our Lutes in the Big Apple (check out our blog on Carli’s first year at CUNY from last fall). Carli now has her MA in History, and is moving forward in her Ph.D. studies. As she notes in