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TACOMA, WASH. (August 10, 2015)- Each summer PLU students fan out across the globe — working, researching, studying or just plain relaxing. Many students leverage the summer months as an opportunity to add depth to their resumes by completing internships at local and corporate businesses,…
pursue avenues in fashion production at Nordstrom, something that I didn’t know existed until the internship. Has this internship challenged any of your perceptions of the field of Retail Management or of what you’d like to do for your career? I am interested in pursuing a creative career with Nordstrom and, man, has the retail management experience opened my eyes to a lot of considerations and perspectives that I may have been oblivious to without this internship. Although I am involved with
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TACOMA, WASH. (Nov. 8, 2016)- Gabri Joy Kirkendall ’09 studied political science and French languages and literature at Pacific Lutheran University. Now, she’s a published author and artist. Below is an edited discussion about her vocational journey and her experience creating hand-lettering books. Question: How…
-lettering books. Question: How did your new book come to be? Answer: A few years ago, I was just a starving artist trying to subsist on Etsy sales when I got the surprise of my life. I was contacted by an editor at Walter Foster Publishing. She had found my work online and asked if I was interested in doing a book on hand lettering. I thought it was just going to be a fun little project and then the unexpected happened. The book (“Creative Lettering and Beyond”) went viral and became an Amazon best
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Originally Published in 2014 If you read the acknowledgements of the books that I’ve written, you will notice that I always thank some group of students for their help and insights. With The Task of Utopia , I thanked a particular class of students who…
discussed and debated many of its central topics and I tried out arguments in class.In Pets, People, and Pragmatism, I thanked the students in a particular Writing 101 class that focused on the topic of pets. In this class we read books presenting an array of views of pets and discussed the various positions. I presented a draft of one chapter of my book to the class. At first I did not tell them it was my book and had them do peer reviews of the chapter just as they regularly did with each other’s work
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The graduate programs at Pacific Lutheran University are designed to combine practice and theory to prepare graduates to take the next step in their careers.
-CertificationSchool of Education – Principal PreparationSchool of Education Master of Fine Arts in Creative WritingCollege of Liberal Studies Master of Social WorkCollege of Health Professions Master of Arts in Marriage and Family TherapyCollege of Health Professions Master of Science in NursingSchool of Nursing Doctor of Education in Educational LeadershipSchool of Education Doctor of Nursing PracticeSchool of Nursing Post Graduate Nurse Practitioner Certificates School of Nursing
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history news for Pacific Lutheran University.
Getting Creative: PLU’s Gateway Class in Innovation Studies By Sarah Cornell-Maier ‘19. This Fall, Pacific Lutheran University is introducing a new class that serves as a gateway to the Innovation Studies Program . Hist/Phil 248: Innovation, Ethics, and Society is a team-taught course that combines many different fields of study into one. It… September 3, 2018 Hist/Phil 248historyinnovation studiesMichael HalvorsonMichael SchleeterPhilosophySarah Cornell-Maier
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The PLU School of Business’s MBA program has been named one of the nation’s most outstanding business schools, by The Princeton Review®. The education services company chose the school for its list “Best Business Schools for 2021”. The PLU MBA program is founded on the…
leadership, creative innovation, global awareness and ethical responsibility. It is designed for both business and non-business majors. The program offers a small class size and can be completed in as little as nine months. “We recommend PLU as an excellent choice for an aspiring MBA,” said Rob Franek, The Princeton Review’s editor-in-chief. “What makes our Best Business Schools list unique is that we factor in data from our surveys of students attending the schools about their campus and classroom
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Associate Vice President Karen McConnell , Ph.D., recently stepped into a new role. It’s not only new for her, but also for PLU. She is the school’s first chief institutional effectiveness officer. McConnell explains that in this role she will help ensure that evidence-based decision-making…
kinesiology professor in 1998 and was appointed dean of the School of Education & Kinesiology in 2018. In her new role, she’ll establish PLU’s new Office of Institutional Effectiveness, which will report directly to the Office of the President and work closely with all divisions of the university. McConnell knows her new charge will require some grit, as well as a willingness to innovate. “There are areas where we can be creative and innovative in a traditional sense, particularly in relation to how we
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Faculty Governance at PLU empowers faculty, subject to the approval of the Board of Regents, in the area of educational policy.
Bylaws can be found in the Faculty Handbook.Key faculty policies and legislation include the following: Academic Identity Statement Principles of Academic Freedom Intellectual Property Policy Integrative Learning Objectives January term Rationale Philosophy of Faculty Compensation Student-Faculty Research & Creative Projects Strategic Plans Principles on General Education PLU 2010 Faculty Resolution November 2000 Statement on Learning Environment
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Performance/clinic: Each school band will perform and receive a 30-minute clinic from two professional jazz educators following their performance on stage Midday Concert: The PLU Jazz Ensemble
festivals throughout the Western United States, as well as 2018 and 2019 Outstanding Performance Awards from DownBeat Magazine. Her band was also selected for a featured performance at the 2020 JEN Conference in New Orleans. In 2016, she was nominated by her students and won the 21st Century Fox/ Give a Note Foundation MusicEd Idol Award. She was the founding director of the Jane Addams Middle School Music Department, has served in leadership roles on writing teams for Curriculum and Assessment, and was
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MediaLab accepts applications at the beginning of each semester for students who wish to join the program the following semester. We are currently accepting applications for Fall 2024.
players works well with others/independently Take direction well Consistently meet deadlines Professional demeanor Respectful of others Interested and willing to learn and develop new skills in all facets of media, including: Public Relations Photography Mass Communication Writing Videography and Video Editing Marketing Graphic Design Web Design MediaLab will not accept applications past April 17th. How to ApplyPlease upload the following materials to a Google Drive folder and share to ml@plu.edu
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