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media members and advisors nationwide. For five days, we each got to delight in the two “conferencing” perks: education and adventure. Our PLU group attended conference sessions geared toward fine-tuning our skills and inspiring our creativity. Students, advisors and professionals from all over facilitated conversations on everything from copy editing and design to critical reporting and journalistic ethics.Mast MediaLearn more about student media at PLUOutside the sessions, each of us conversed

colleagues and Indigenous scholars from other nations. Currently, I am involved in two major research projects: a place-based study on competing and collaborating stories and perspectives with Dr. Kikki Jernsletten, a Sámi colleague in Norway, and a project on Indigenous aesthetics with an international group of Indigenous scholars including Sámi, Cree, Maori, and Native Hawaiians. Both projects involve developing critical scholarly approaches deriving from Indigenous ways of knowing.This research focus

and 2) the proficiency movement. The success of both these approaches to foreign language acquisition has served to mask their limitations and discourage critique.  More specifically, the direct method can be faulted for its reliance on mimicry and repetition as the fundamental means of learning. As a result, users of the direct method are discouraged from attaining a critical perspective on the material itself; in fact, analysis (even at the level of basic grammatical paradigms) is regarded as

Trump, no KKK, no racist USA!” “The worst part of the day was walking by all of the protestors on our way into the actual event,” Courtney said. “Hearing what they were saying was hard because I was thinking ‘yes I agree with you, but I have to stay with my group.’” Tori Sullivan ’18, Josie Courtney ‘19 and professor Kaitlyn Sill share a laugh on the subway.× Once clear of the airport-style security checkpoint, the group made its way into the sea of tens of thousands of inauguration attendees, the

with a few friends for LASR called “Gaydio.” It has been a very fun experience though very outside of my comfort zone. On the show, we have had a lot of fun sharing stories with one another and learning new things. I appreciate PLU for allowing me to have a unique experience like this. ​​What feeling do you have around growing up in this community and now graduating from its local university? During my senior year, I’ve been thinking about it a lot more and, seeing as my being a teacher is becoming

young adults in higher education settings, consult the excellent, large-scale projects available from Project Information Literacy. All of this got us thinking about our first year students. Anecdotally, we see them struggle with the expectations of college level research. We also believe that many of their high school experiences have not prepared them for academics at PLU. In an effort to gather baseline information on the new FY cohort, we collected data at New Student Registration from 154 new

best it provides a false sense of security. One way to discourage cheating is to design assessments that are unique and authentic, requiring higher order thinking skills like synthesis, analysis, or the creation of original content. For written work, Turnitin’s Originality Check (via Sakai Assignments) is a popular tool to discourage plagiarism and cheating. An option for multiple choice assessments is to use “question pools” where assessment questions are drawn randomly from a large pool of

around growing up in this community and now graduating from its local university? During my senior year, I’ve been thinking about it a lot more and, seeing as my being a teacher is becoming a closer reality, it’s made me want to give back to my community. I really am appreciative that I was able to grow up in this area and I was able to get to go to college at PLU. So I would like to go back and teach, and if possible, at my old high school. Read Previous Computer science major Cody Uehara ’22 works

,” he said. And discovery continues with more visits to the site and more examination of The Valley of the Kings. “The things that have survived are pretty amazing,” Ryan said. “To understand where we are today, you have to understand where we’ve been. The truth is the world did not begin when you were born.” What has been found in Egypt continues to amaze and challenge today’s scholars to think about the past, he said. “These guys (ancient Egyptians) are thinking about some of the same issues we

said “it’s the law that bridges complexities and brings order to our differences. Without it, there’d be chaos. We need it if we’re to make any progress.” Zee has come a long way from his days on the PLU campus when, as a young, wide-eyed kid from Hong Kong, he was exposed to new ways of thinking while developing many of the values he’s used successfully in his professional life. He thrived in the smallness of the university and valued its liberal arts tradition and the close attention he received