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(center, black tank top), with her fellow 2010-11 Rieke Scholars.Northwest Education Access works with the youth to determine the best next steps in career exploration — whether that is further traditional higher education, a training program, a short-term professional technical program, or an apprenticeship. After all, the traditional college classroom isn’t for everyone. While some students love writing essays, others work best with their hands and thrive in technical programs. “We have students

from PLU. The bus is a Seattle-based nonprofit that supports young people in engaging in local and state politics. I spent that summer campaigning, canvassing, and registering folks to vote. It was awesome. From there, I spent a year in AmeriCorps through a Tacoma-based program called Urban Leaders in Training. I also worked with Graduate Tacoma on a lot of cool projects, including translating a lot of their materials into Spanish. Then, after a couple of years in Oakland, California working in

Celebrate Computer Education Week Posted by: halvormj / December 5, 2018 Image: Halvorson discusses software and online learning with a student at PLU. December 5, 2018 By Michael Halvorson, ’85 This week is Computer Science Education Week (Dec. 3-Dec. 9) in the United States. I helped celebrate on Monday at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science at the University of Washington in Seattle. The event was sponsored by Code.org, an important non-profit organization committed to training

public leaders to conserve and protect the water and land resources from pollution and development? And then what about housing for all as a right rather than privilege? Are we training young people in the Puget Sound to conserve and protect this remarkable part of the world? PLU once had a vital commitment to care for the Earth. Will that continue in the future as we face the greatest of social issues: the drastic changing of the climate? Monastic communities looked to the future, not the immediate

that no one grows hungry?  Alcuin LIbrary at Saint John’s University “How do we push public leaders to conserve and protect the water and land resources from pollution and development? And then what about housing for all as a right rather than privilege? Are we training young people in the Puget Sound to conserve and protect this remarkable part of the world? PLU once had a vital commitment to care for the Earth. Will that continue in the future as we face the greatest of social issues: the drastic

the Digital Humanities but it did not want it to become a minor or major. They have a good reason for that. They say that when it becomes a minor or major, what ends up happening is that just a few people end up working in it instead of it being a common good. Which is what it should be.” The grant led to a lab which was fully launched in the spring of 2018. Its goal is to educate and support colleagues and students in the digital humanities. With training, faculty can incorporate technological

interdisciplinary endeavor. In the wake of this cross-fertilization and expansion, I came to believe that most innovation research is best approached through an interdisciplinary frame. I still try to implement this insight at PLU, where we specialize in interdisciplinary training. At Amazon Corporation, there are now 5,000 people working on Alexa and related technologies. This represents a major investment in money and people power, and it indicates how important the company believes that conversational

wayside and say everything was okay once they returned, he said. Out of that, he was asked to interview returning service men and women on how the military deals with returning soldiers. He reported his findings to the Department of Defense and is pleased to have seen some training changes take place. “I actually saw some positive outcomes,” Hrivnak said. He still gets emails now and again from people who served in Iraq. One stands out in his mind. A Belgium medic who was embedded with a unit told him

of all I wanted be an astronomer. Dad was a physicist. I grew up with telescopes and I still read Scientific American every month. I still follow that stuff avidly,” Youtz says. “I wanted to be a philosopher, I wanted be a historian, I love anthropology, of course I have no formal training in any of these. “Music just kept pulling me back.” “My music is essentially dramatic, it’s story telling. Because I’ve spent so much time doing so many different things, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about

. He played a handful of games as a freshman, said PLU head coach John Yorke, and came back his sophomore year to start 18 out of 19 games, including five shutouts. Croft giftedly guarded the goal his junior year, too—but up and quit five games into the season. “During the summer I decide to partake in other activities,” Croft said. “I got lazy and content, and I didn’t want to grow as an athlete, which will hurt you. I came into training camp out of shape, and instead of working myself back into