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The Power of Faculty Mentorship Posted by: bennetrr / January 15, 2020 January 15, 2020 A vital part of Pacific Lutheran University’s academic experience is the opportunity for students to build relationships with faculty members working in the career fields those students want to pursue. Faculty mentorship can help strengthen a student academically, give career-related advice or feedback, be a sounding board for ideas and experiences, assist with networking — and ultimately bridge the

Research in Interdisciplinary STEM Education (RISE) Posted by: nicolacs / February 1, 2023 February 1, 2023 Research in Interdisciplinary STEM Education (RISE) (https://labs.wsu.edu/rise/) is a 9-week residential summer research experience at Washington State University, targeted to undergraduate students in chemistry, education, life sciences, mathematics, or physics.  Participants will join interdisciplinary teams mentored by WSU faculty to investigate STEM learning across formal and informal

issue it finds in your content and often provides Quick-Fix options to correct issues. A Quick-Start for using the Accessibility Checker is available in the following Sakai help document: How do I check my content for accessibility? Why Should I Use the Accessibility Checker? Students are likely to access your online course content through a variety of devices including laptops, tablets, mobile phones, and assistive technologies such as screen readers. Some content that you post online might be

Embedding YouTube & Audio Players in Sakai Posted by: Jenna S / February 17, 2017 February 17, 2017 By Sean Horner YouTube video players and audio players can now be embedded in any instance of Sakai’s rich-text editor (CKEditor) while avoiding the use of the Adobe Flash Player. The CKEditor is embedded within many Sakai tools including Forums, Mailtool, Assignments, Lessons, etc. Illustrated steps for how to use the new CKEditor features are available in the following Sakai help documents: How

April 26, 2012 Engineer turned poet named Washington State Poet Laureate By JuliAnne Rose ’13 Realizing her passion and remarkable talent for poetry in her thirties, engineer-turned-poet Kathleen Flenniken’s work was bolstered when she received Washington State Poet Laureate earlier this year. Kathleen Flenniken ’07 was named the Washington State Poet Laureate for 2012-2014. Sponsored by Humanities Washington and the Washington State Art Commission, Flenniken received the prestigious position

exist. It seemed like the perfect opportunity to create a rubric that reflected what I valued. The first thing I noticed during my search was that most rubrics placed a disproportionate value on what I term “process requirements”. Evaluation criteria often included timeliness of responses (i.e. when were students posting and replying), quantity  or frequency of posts and responses (how many times were students posting), originality (how different was a student’s post from classmates’), and mechanics

and domestic partner rights in the open with an educational display and an opportunity to speak out at the club’s program “We Matter: Think Before You Vote” last Tuesday in the UC. It was the mission of the club to not only educate people about what the presidential candidates believed, but also the laws in each state – from inclusive to exclusive – and ballot measures that will affect the homosexual community. “There’s a lot of animosity and energy about this election,” said Dmitry Mikheyev, club

November 5, 2012 Dining and Culinary Services offers a taste of something different during the annual Ghoulish Food event on Halloween. (Photos by Jesse Major ’14) Ghoulish Food By Jesse Major ’14 Dining and Culinary services offered dishes designed to take students out of their culinary comfort zone during the annual Ghoulish Food event on Halloween. Students had the opportunity to try a plethora of dishes that crossed into many different cultures. One dish many students didn’t have the heart

We are the champions! Posted by: mhines / June 6, 2023 June 6, 2023 PLU has 11 team national championships, 57 individual and relay national championships, 283 conference championships, and 391 all-Americans. Go Lutes! Learn more about student-athlete opportunities. Read Previous PLU senior and triple major Allison Sheflo discusses her PLU experience Read Next The Arts on Red Square: Get your groove on and unleash your inner artist! LATEST POSTS YouTube Short: PLU Parkland Night Market & Taste

Academic advice for students on the spectrum Posted by: mhines / October 5, 2023 October 5, 2023 First-year PLU student Bethany Vigil ’27 recently received Study.com’s scholarship for students on the autism spectrum. Bethany will major in biology, minoring in psychology, and hopes to attend medical school after graduating from PLU. We asked what academic advice Bethany would give to younger teens who are also on the spectrum:“Don’t study and act as though you’re neurotypical, which sounds