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campus so beautiful and all the staff and faculty were welcoming and excited for my future! My PLU experience: At PLU I have been academically challenged and enriched in subjects from gender studies, environmental justice and jazz. I’ve learned to take risks and always found a community to fall back on. Because so much time is devoted to looking at issues and topics from a perspective other than my own, I have been challenged to discover my own capacity for compassion. What’s next? I’m hoping to get

in writing. I worked in the Office of Admission throughout my time at PLU as a Voice of PLU caller and program coordinator, volunteered at the Women’s Center, joined the Sexual Assault Peer Education Team (SAPET), and have been an active member of Delta Iota Chi (nursing service club). My incredibly positive experience at PLU has been a result of my interactions with the diverse students and faculty members, the opportunities and support the university has given me and my enthusiasm for nursing

bachelor’s graduates and 100 percent of master’s degree graduates passed their state boards at first sitting. One more PLU graduate received a Fulbright Fellowship, bringing our 34 year total to 80. Our student Mathematics Modeling team won a meritorious award, the second-highest award possible, and the student MediaLab received a college division Emmy Award for their film “Illicit Exchanges: Canada, the US, and Crime.” At the end of the academic year,  the University Wind Ensemble and Jazz Band

, will pay, and who will be able to pay, the growing bill for higher education? Obviously, this is not just PLU’s issue, it is a crucial issue for every college and university, as it is, I believe, for our state and nation. But it does impact us in a very significant way, and in the course of our PLU 2020 long-range planning discussion we must address our own economics, even as we add our voice to the larger public debate. Proposition 3 – CHARTING OUR COURSE: The great task facing us at Pacific

to represent the degradation of her memories. In addition to that, I experimented with leaving portions of a work un finished, whether that is with charcoal, a limited color palette, or missing information. These “un finished” portions of my work are intended to represent her mental loss and incompletion, as she would often voice frustrations with not being able to recall her past. In creating this series focused on Alzheimer’s and fractured memories, my main artistic influences have been Pablo

for me the moment I stepped onto campus. I have taken classes in jazz, choir, political science, math, engineering, environmental science, geoscience, and physics and had the opportunity to be part of two summer research teams: one in physics and one in computer science and computer engineering. I have friends in every building on campus and love saying hi to people everywhere I go. I will remember PLU for the awesome conversations with mentors, late night snacks at the Old Main Market, swing