Search

Foundation, where he is responsible for facilitating business-driven strategy for IT solutions through the integration of Project Management and Organizational Change Management. He has previously worked at Enstar Group/Paladin Managed Care Services, the City of Tacoma and Russell Investments. He teaches Information Systems courses to undergraduate and MBA students at PLU.Can you share a very brief synopsis of what you talk will be about? Chavez: I’m going to talk about the 5 million undocumented Latino

student who took advantage of getting a variety of experiences, many of them not associated with formal courses—what I call a student who went the ‘extra mile’ to get the most out of her education.” Hunt didn’t just get an education at PLU; she also got a lot of support. “PLU has been so phenomenal through so much—beginnings, endings and hardships in between,” Hunt said. Health, Hardships and Healing Hardships don’t come much harder: In the summer of 2009, Hunt was diagnosed with cancer. “It was a

discussions, being a member in clubs, and taking courses. And most importantly I have been able to share my experience with prospective students and their families as well as with current students through my campus positions. Being a part of ASPLU, as a senator, also helped me learn about the inter working of the university while building connections. Studying away in Freiburg, Germany was life changing as it allowed me to understand what being a global citizen really meant; I was able to build on my

IHON and the biology department opened the door to some of her best academic experiences at PLU. “I have enjoyed a wide variety of biology courses, taught by dedicated faculty and staff,” McBride said. “I (also) have been challenged to think with a global perspective through the International Honors program.” Through IHON, McBride spent a semester studying at Oxford University in England. She also traveled to Trinidad and Tobago as part of the J-Term study away program. McBride says her experiences

said. As she progressed through the nursing program, Mitsui found the relationships with her classmates to be extremely helpful. One of Mitsui’s favorite aspects of the nursing program is the tight-knit community of her cohort, the 40 students with whom she takes a majority of her courses. "It’s almost like I had two families while I was here. Just building those relationships with my teammates and my classmates has been the most memorable."- Takara Mitsui “The teamwork, helping each other out and

have programs and courses about vocation. We have Days of Vocation. We even joke about it (which is how you know its part of the culture!) “How am I being called to serve my neighbor using the gifts, passions, and opportunities that I have been given?” That is a very Lutheran question that we ask all the time at PLU. In fact, we believe that if more people asked that question, the world would be a better place. As our President, Tom Krise, likes to say, “The world needs more PLU.” There are some

students and administrators. Through this first impression, I felt supported by the resources PLU made available to meet my academic and career goals. Also, I knew I would benefit from the smaller class sizes which facilitate a safe place for discussion of topics relevant to the courses. My PLU experience: My experience at PLU has been a journey full of personal growth in many aspects of my life. PLU goes above and beyond with the support and opportunities they provide their students. The faculty truly

and I knew that the program was well-established and successful. Lastly, but most importantly, I knew that PLU had an extremely strong biology program backed by a wonderful group of dedicated professors who really do care about their students success in courses. To sum this up, by attending PLU I avoided becoming just a student ID number in the computer, but rather I a known recognizable face on my daily visits to Rieke Science Center. My PLU experience: My experience at PLU has been an absolute

an ethos more favorable to animals, more open to the creature as a living presence. That means more multi-disciplinary study to help us overcome the limitations of perspective in our individual disciplines. It also means more conferences, more panels, more publications, and more courses in universities. I would urge anyone interested in animal issues to read widely (and wildly?) about animals, ranging beyond the confines of particular disciplines. It’s harder to treat a whale as only a linguistic

acquisition of basic proficiency in the foreign language. As a result, innovation in foreign language pedagogy is not rewarded with promotion and tenure; in fact, teaching itself is deemed less important than non-pedagogically oriented research. A final consequence of the hierarchical division of labor in foreign language teaching is the preponderance of large multi-section courses, where syllabi and examinations are often course-wide, and where individual instructors (usually female graduate students