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Chamber of Commerce CEO, Union Strategist to Team with PLU Students for Minimum Wage Debate Posted b

, Melody Ferguson worked 40 hours a week to help pay her way through the University of Washington – 20 hours at the academic advising office, plus 20 hours off-campus in the Seattle Supersonics’ media relations office. Now, in her role as PLU associate dean of admission, she still feels the weight of her heartstrings when students from her old neighborhood receive the support they need to attend PLU.  “I’m passionate about working here because we value serving our regional community,” she says. “Of

Lutes win a national Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence award and seven regional

Award Recognizes PLU Speech and Debate Team as one of the Best in the Pacific Northwest Posted by: T

influences of Edvard Munch on printmakers and artists today. Edvard Munch and the Sea kicks off with a Members’ Opening party on the evening of April 9, followed by the Collector’s Conversation with Sally Epstein and TAM’s executive director Stephanie Stebich on April 10. Related events include a hands-on printmaking workshop with PLU arts instructor and designated master printer Craig Cornwall, a sketching workshop led by artist Darsie Beck, an Educator’s Evening at TAM, an I-Scream social, a coloring

working group that meets regularly to think of ways to support all people affected by these decisions and the process by which the decisions will be made. “We’re building a solid social support network,” Ceynar said. “It was one of the first things we discussed when the group was formed this summer.” Belton said Gregson’s insistence on maintaining that support system embodies PLU’s mission and commitment to care. From the beginning, even as the committee was being formed, the process has been handled

the kind of knowing that cannot be unknown. For our students this is a process of reconstituting themselves as human beings, a process of disintegration and reintegration, for some welcome, for others not. For all, however, it is a process that usually involves their experiencing a sense of tension and even betrayal of family, peer group, social class, ethnic community, religious denomination, or political ideology. Whether and how students negotiate this process depends on many things: among them