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Make a Gift OnlineGive NowGive by Payroll DeductionSubmit Form NowQuestions?Contact UsEmployee GivingEmployee giving is about sharing in a common mission, and it’s an important measure of our collective commitment when the university is applying for outside grants from corporations and foundations. Your participation and involvement is what matters! All gifts, of any size and to any area of the university contribute to our employee giving rate. A high employee giving rate reflects a vote of

A Policy of Giving Back to PLU Scott and Sherith Squires’ story started at—and just keeps coming back to—Pacific Lutheran University. They met at PLU and graduated in 1988. He was a Communication major and a football player; she was a Psychology major and a cheerleader. Their 16 closest friends—eight men and eight women, also student-athletes—all ended up marrying someone from the group, and they all still keep in touch. Today the Squires are raising three school-aged children in Thousand Oaks

Tom '83 and Holly Buskirk: Keeping PLU's Unique Spirit of Service Alive As a longtime pilot for FedEx, Tom Buskirk ’83 considers his profession a technical one. But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t value a liberal arts education, or the idea that a university should encourage its students to serve others. “It’s important for students to get high quality education – particularly in the liberal arts,” Tom said. “It teaches you to view the world in a totally different way. “PLU students are expected

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How and why do you choose allyship even when it is unpopular? Katie Monsen ‘96 and Emily Davidson ‘98 (links to full interviews here and here)Katie Monsen ‘96 and Emily Davidson ‘98 were two allied PLU alumnae whom Beth recommended I contact. Though they didn’t overlap too much in their years at PLU, they both dedicated themselves to formal and informal allyship through student organizations and their social circles. Katie wrote a column in The Mast that she leveraged to combat the anti-queer

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Teaching and Learning with Archives and Special Collections The Archives and Special Collections partners with teaching faculty to develop instructional opportunities that enhance the student learning experience through the investigation and use of primary source material. The Archives and Special Collections teaching and learning services include: Consultations with instructors about possible assignments and lessons using primary sources and special collections materials. Guided discussions

Commitment to Diversity, Justice, and SustainabilityASPLU embraces our university’s values of diversity, justice, and sustainability (DJS). This is because DJS is necessary in living out the mission of PLU as a whole: inquiry, service, leadership, and care. Mission StatementOur mission as the Associated Students of Pacific Lutheran University is to promote the growth of the collective student body community as a whole, while actively encouraging the advancement of the individual.DJS StatementIn

Formative and Summative AssessmentSource: Yale Center for Teaching and Learning on Formative and Summative AssessmentPrintable pdfAssessment allows both instructor and student to monitor progress towards achieving learning objectives. Formative assessment refers to tools used throughout a class or course that identify misconceptions, struggles, and learning gaps, while assessing ways to close such gaps. Formative assessment can help students take ownership of their learning when they understand