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knowledge-based economy.” “High quality, accessible education is more and more crucial, and, yet our educational pipeline is leaking at every joint,” Anderson said. He shared a frightening statistic, that only 18 of 100 eighth grade students in the United States will earn a bachelor’s degree within 10 years of being an 8th grader. “Eighty-two students are being left along the sidelines,” Anderson said. For the 18, the future does look bright, he said. Obtaining a bachelor’s degree correlates to doubling

aware of how much energy you’re using,” and, “ask yourself, ‘do I need this right now?’” In addition to turning off the lights, Pfohl stresses the importance of unplugging devices when they’re not in use. So-called phantom loads continue to draw energy even though the device is turned off. In an effort to increase awareness, results for each hall will be displayed in a chalk mural outside the Anderson University Center. The mural features each hall’s average energy use based on past years and will

collaboration with industry. It is a uniquely designed 10-month, full-time, quantitatively rigorous degree program offered to new graduates as well as those with industry experience. The program is cohort based and begins each September. “We’re both proud and grateful for the recognition from the CFA Institute for Pacific Lutheran University’s Master of Science in Finance program. The MSF is the newest program in PLU’s School of Business, adding to our long tradition of high quality education in business

April 10 in the Anderson University Center. Following a brief welcome from PLU Athletic Director Laurie Turner, Patricia Krise shared her thoughts on NCAA Div. III and PLU. Krise, wife of PLU President Thomas W. Krise, played Div. III volleyball and basketball as an undergraduate student at Hanover College in Indiana. One of the key components of Krise’s message was the idea of playing a sport “for the love of the game,” a fixture at the Div. III level, where athletics-based scholarships are not

), “Storm Cloud”  (Prof. Tyler Travillian), “Noah’s Ark” (Prof. Adela Ramos) and “Wall of Jericho” (alumnus Tim Chalberg)—went all out with creative and comical costumes. They posed probing questions and offered witty remarks about the videos throughout the evening. 2014 Hebrew Idol host Tommy Flanagan ’14, right, interviews the creators of the film “Envious Girls” on the red carpet. The first student video, Evasion, was about hate crimes. The student creators based its visualization on a ’70s mystery

can be possible with funds from the Green Fund.” Proposals are currently being reviewed on a monthly rolling basis and will be accepted through April 1st, or until all funds are allocated. Final decisions on funding will be made by student sustainability leaders: the co-presidents of GREAN, the ASPLU Sustainability Director, and the RHA Sustainability Director, based on their judgment of each project’s feasibility and contribution to energy conservation at PLU. To learn more, email questions or

each week on campus. Colleges are then put into categories based on how much landfill is generated per capita, which schools have the best recycling rate and which schools have the least garbage and recycling. Recyclemania began at PLU in 2011 as a way to share waste-diversion processes nationally and to get an assessment of the success of these practices. “We have a campus community that really cares about recycling,” said Nick Lorax, Office of Sustainability Lead at PLU. In the past three years

honor by meeting Tree Campus USA’s five standards, which include maintaining a tree-advisory committee, a campus tree-care plan, dedicated annual expenditures for its campus tree program, an Arbor Day observance and student service-learning projects. The recognition from the Princeton Review identities PLU as one of the 353 most environmentally responsible colleges in the United States. The education services company chose the schools for the sixth annual edition of its “Green Guide” based on data

University.The free, public showing will begin at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 12, in Xavier 201. Director Jesse Freeston, a video-journalist based in Montréal, Québec, will lead a post-film discussion. Resistencia explores the resistance to the 2009 Honduran coup d’état. The first in a generation in Central America, the overthrowing of the country’s president led to a nationwide resistance movement. The film focuses on a key element of the movement: the daring act of the farmers from the Aguan Valley to seize over

Education and Kinesiology, and his work revolves around the importance of paraeducators and their process. In Gerlach’s words, “paraeducators are vital to student achievement.” Retiring after 35 years of teaching at PLU, Gerlach leaves behind a legacy here and nationally. He has spearheaded paraeducator programs at PLU and wrote two books based around his principles. Supervising Paraeducators in Educational Settings, which he co-authored with Anna Lou Pickett, and Let’s Team Up! A Checklist for Teachers