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  • A Silent Story: PLU Faculty Member is a Witness to Refugee Crisis https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2015/09/08/refugeecrisis/

    TACOMA, Wash. (Sept. 8, 2015)—The story I want to share with you is silent. No words were exchanged. It is one of those cases in which words fail to express the extent of human despair. Thank God, it is also a case in which words…

    the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how they found it June 24, 2024 Kaden Bolton ’24 explored civics and public policy on campus and studying away in Oxford June 12, 2024 PLU welcomes new Chief Operating Officer and VP Shalita Myrick to campus June 11, 2024 PLU French professor Rebecca Wilkin wins the 2024

  • Formative and Summative Assessment https://www.plu.edu/assessment/assessment-resources/measurement-of-student-learning/formative-and-summative-assessment/

    FormativeSummative In-class discussionsInstructor-created exams Clicker questionsStandardized tests Low-stakes group workFinal projects Weekly quizzesFinal essays 1-minute reflection writing assignmentsFinal presentations Homework assignmentsFinal reports SurveysFinal Grades Both forms of assessment can vary across several dimensions (Trumbull and Lash, 2013): Informal / formal Immediate / delayed feedback Embedded in lesson plan / stand-alone Spontaneous / planned Individual / group Verbal / nonverbal Oral

  • On Exhibit: LGBTQ+ Authors and their Works https://www.plu.edu/library/news/on-exhibit-lgbtq-authors-and-their-works/

    Stream LGBT Studies films October 2022 Gender and Sexuality Week activities calendar Authors featured in the exhibit: “adrienne maree brown grows healing ideas in public through her multi-genre writing, her music and her podcasts. Informed by 25 years of movement facilitation, somatics, Octavia E Butler scholarship and her work as a doula, adrienne has nurtured Emergent Strategy, Pleasure Activism, Radical Imagination and Transformative Justice as ideas and practices for transformation. She is the

  • From Microsoft to Martin Luther, and back https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2011/03/01/from-microsoft-to-martin-luther-and-back/

    described it, he “pushed the re-set button.” He decided to earn his master’s – then his Ph.D. – in European history. And soon thereafter, he found himself back at his alma mater teaching about Martin Luther and Reformation Germany (and writing books about the subject, of course). He realizes it is an odd combination: Not many people are experts in cutting-edge computer programming and 500-year old political and religious history. He’s also aware that some people might suggest that, in studying 16th

  • PLU senior Kelly Hall prepares to graduate with an indigenous studies major she designed herself https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2016/05/06/individualized-major/

    TACOMA, WASH. (May 6, 2016)- Kelly Hall couldn’t decide on a major when she first came to Pacific Lutheran University. “I didn’t know for sure what I wanted to do, and several fields I explored just didn’t fit right,” said Hall, a senior at PLU.…

    PLU senior art students on display in the University Gallery through May 27 COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how they found it June 24, 2024 Kaden Bolton ’24 explored civics and public policy on campus and studying away in Oxford June 12, 2024 PLU welcomes new

  • National Parks postage stamp series features photo by PLU alumnus, self-taught photographer https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2016/06/30/ebi-stamp/

    TACOMA, WASH. (June 30, 2016)- One frame. That’s all it took for Kevin Ebi ’95 to get his work on a postage stamp – sort of. Ebi, a self-taught nature photographer who has made a living traveling around the world and documenting its beauty, weathered…

    interim dean of the School of Education and Kinesiology COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how they found it June 24, 2024 Kaden Bolton ’24 explored civics and public policy on campus and studying away in Oxford June 12, 2024 PLU welcomes new Chief Operating Officer

  • Peter Serko to Perform “My Brother Kissed Mark Zuckerberg” at PLU on October 27 https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2015/10/22/peter-serko-october-27/

    TACOMA, WASH. (Oct. 22, 2015)- Members of the Pacific Lutheran University community have the unique opportunity to learn about the AIDS epidemic through theatre. The one-man show “My Brother Kissed Mark Zuckerberg” will be performed in the Karen Hille Phillips Studio Theater at 7 p.m.…

    Faculty Discuss “Climate” on Latest Episode of “Open to Interpretation” Read Next Seattle Business Magazine Editor Teaching Journalism Course at PLU COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how they found it June 24, 2024 Kaden Bolton ’24 explored civics and public policy

  • Article VI. – GRIEVANCE, DISCIPLINARY, AND DISMISSAL PROCEDURES https://www.plu.edu/faculty-handbook/bylaws-to-the-faculty-constitution-pacific-lutheran-university/article-v-grievance-disciplinary-and-dismissal-procedures/

    president and the petitioner shall notify each other and the committee of their acceptance or rejection of it. If either rejects the committee’s decision, they may appeal to the Board of Regents within thirty days of that rejection. In cases in which problems of inadequate or unclear policy are found, the Conciliation Committee shall inform the faculty in writing not of names or other details of the case but of all issues of policy and procedure and shall give its recommendations on corrections

  • Previous Titles and History https://www.plu.edu/first-year/common-reading/previous-titles/

    diagnosed as dyslexic, but didn’t let that deter her from developing a love of books. Butler started creating her own stories early on, and decided to make writing her life’s work around age 10. Butler’s most celebrated, critically acclaimed work tells the story of Dana, a young black woman who is suddenly and inexplicably transported from her home in 1970s California to the pre–Civil War South. As she time-travels between worlds, one in which she is a free woman and one where she is part of her own

  • Speakers and Panels https://www.plu.edu/restoration-renewal/speakers/

    /) Publications: Purposeful inquiry: detoxing the poisoned chalice, Untitled Story City of Culture? Editor Eamonn Baker YES! Publications 2004. Remembering our Shared Legacy from the First World War Editor Eamonn Baker 2009 YES! Publications. Burning Issues- A graphic novel- collaborative writing process facilitated by Eamonn Baker 2017. A Towards Understanding and Healing Publication. Maureen has an MA in Peace and Conflict Studies and has worked in the field of community relations and peace building for