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simple thesis is the university is strong and stable,” Anderson said. “We are planning toward the decade from great strength.” As institutions of higher education have struggled under economic restraints, PLU has fared well by nearly every measure, he said. For example: – Stable enrollment, through a savvy marketing and recruiting plan, has garnered an incoming class of over 710 students. Add in transfers, and enrollment this year comes to just under 3,600 students. ACT and SAT scores increased and
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February 22, 2011 Programs that engage the world By Kari Plog ’11 At PLU, studying doesn’t just take place inside a classroom. Nearly half of the students enrolled at PLU will study away by the time they graduate, and the Wang Center for Global Education recently showcased what these experiences can offer through World Conversations. Every January, hundreds of PLU students study around the world. (Photo by Theodore Charles ’12) “World Conversations is designed to give students the opportunity
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May 28, 2014 Jennifer and James “Jym” Kinney talk about their paths to PLU, and beyond, just before graduation on May 24, 2014. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Navy vet realizes his dream of becoming a math teacher By Barbara Clements PLU Marketing & Communications For Jym Kinney ’13, ’14, it’s all about persistence and a dream that just wouldn’t go away. The culmination of the dream played out on May 24 as he walked across the stage to receive his master’s degree in Education. He was accompanied
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higher education has had on the nine graduates’ lives, careers and nation. As it turns out, this experience is having a profound impact on the PLU team: new graduates Andrea Capere ’14 and Princess Reese ’14; current students Shunying Wang ’15 and Maurice Byrd ’14; and supervisors Joanne Lisosky, Professor of Communication, and Melannie Denise Cunningham, Director of Multicultural Recruitment.“What makes this so unique is the variety of perspectives that we have in the six people who are traveling on
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opportunity to learn more about PCAT and discuss the center with PCAT board members. The center also plans to offer a range of adult education and professional certification courses in demand in Pierce County’s smaller cities and suburban communities that are in need of an additional influx of professionally trained workers. “The population growth outside of Tacoma opens up business opportunities that will require skilled workers,” said Mark Martinez, a PCAT board member and executive secretary of the
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in general,” Jackson says now of the talk. “I want to be that positive influence for someone, and make a difference in a middle school kid’s life.” Jackson is in his third year at Pacific Lutheran University. He’s majoring in education and hoping to become a middle school math teacher after obtaining his master’s degree. He’s following a family vocation of sorts. Jackson’s mom was a third grade teacher and currently works as an administrator in Burlington, Wash. In total, six family members are
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SarahAnn M. McFadden, PhD, RN, CPN Assistant Professor Phone: 253-535-7510 Email: mcfaddsm@plu.edu Office Location: Ramstad Hall - 303 Professional Biography Education PhD, Nursing Science, University of Washington BSN, Nursing, Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing BS, Psychology, Pacific Lutheran University Selected Publications McFadden, S. M., Nur, J., Dada, D., Wilton, L., Wang, M., Vlahbov, D., & Nelson, L. E. (2021). Confidence and hesitancy during the early roll-out of COVID-19
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Downtown Tacoma’s Theatre on the Square. Young’s illuminating query was one of 14 “ideas worth spreading” presented in the form of four- to seven-minute talks at the fourth annual installation of TEDx Tacoma on March 21. PLU faculty members Maria Chavez, Bradd Busick and Young each responded to the event’s theme of “Did You Know…?” by posing questions addressing trends, systems and mores prevalent, but often unaddressed, in higher education. Echoing many of the themes of her book, Prophets, Gurus and
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town to PLU really broadened my understanding of myself and my understanding of other people. It’s teaching me how to be a better nurse and a better person in general because of that growth. Global education and travel does that on a larger scale."- Grace Zimmerman '18 “I know that dreaming big was definitely a struggle in high school,” she said. “I’m lucky to have made it to PLU, and I think my dreams have gotten a lot bigger and wider.” At PLU, about 50 percent of students study away at some
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