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  • You Ask, We Answer: Is your campus safe? https://www.plu.edu/admission/blog/you-ask-we-answer-is-your-campus-safe/

    Safety employs professional staff and students to patrol the campus, monitor video cameras and respond to calls. PLU also contracts Pierce County Sheriff’s Department Deputies to provide patrols around the perimeter of campus on weekend nights during the school year. This is an extra layer of security and commitment by the University. We also understand that the whole community contributes to a safe environment. As Director, I have been working with our neighbors and local organizations to ensure PLU

  • Helping one bowl at a time https://www.plu.edu/comm-media-designarts/news/2016/11/04/helping-one-bowl-at-a-time/

    of an international grassroots effort to fight hunger, will raise money for the hungry in Pierce County. “This program helps both students and the community,” Steve Sobeck, Empty Bowl’s coordinator and resident instructor of art & design, said. “Students learn how big of an impact that art and ceramics can have, and the community is able to take pride that their bowl is hand made.” This year the ceramics program is planning on creating 150 to 200 bowls for the event. They hope to raise more money

  • International Peer Advisors https://www.plu.edu/iss/new-students/ipa/

    International Peer Advisors International Peer Advisors (IPAs) are current PLU students. They were just like you, coming here as international students or American students working hard to become a part of community within the university. With experience and enthusiasm, all the IPAs are looking forward to meeting you and assisting you through the first week at PLU. They will be here to welcome you, to be your first friend on campus, to give you the best advice for new students, and to help you

  • Sequoia Nagamatsu https://www.plu.edu/mfa/staff/sequoia-nagamatsu/

    elements of stories but also the traditions particular stories come from—how place and race and history often converge to inspire and inform a creative work, pushing it beyond the sum of its parts. I view a classroom setting and one-on-one mentorship as a kind of community of empathy and exploration where we’ll ask questions like: What are the building blocks of this story? Who is the imagined audience? What might I want to emulate? Why am I resistant to a certain narrative? Why have I embraced this

  • Tearing Down the Studio https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2012/04/02/tearing-down-the-studio/

    , who has known Zhong since 2005. At first, Manfredi had a simple fascination with Zhong’s art, particularly his paintings. That developed into a budding friendship and, later, Zhong’s work became a focus of Manfredi’s academic writing. But here, Manfredi is doing something different — he is documenting Zhong, his work, and his community through a camera lens. His work has been on display in exhibits throughout the world, but the place where he creates it may soon be destroyed. Manfredi has taken on

  • From the Dean https://www.plu.edu/nursing/about/

    , leadership and care guide our mission. We nurture inclusive excellence and create a learning environment that values equity, inclusion and belonging. Understanding the social determinants of health and addressing health care disparities are not just part of our work, they are our mission. Through this mission, we can make a profound difference in the lives of our patients and our community neighbors. Our nursing programs offer degrees at the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral levels and continuing

  • Tamara Hernandez Ramirez https://www.plu.edu/campus-ministry/staff/tamara-hernandez-ramirez/

    Tamara Hernandez Ramirez Community Engagement Advocate, Multicultural Outreach and Engagement Advocate Email: hernandezramirez@plu.edu

    Contact Information

  • First in the Family RLC https://www.plu.edu/diversity-inclusion/timeline/first-in-the-family-rlc/

    First in the Family Residential Learning Community (RLC) for first-generation identified students established.

  • Cross-Cultural Coursework https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2010/01/26/cross-cultural-coursework/

    needed to succeed. It begins with three-weeks of language acquisition and general introduction to Oaxacan society, followed by eight weeks of inter-disciplinary understanding of ancient, modern and contemporary Mexico. When each student is feeling acclimated to his or her surroundings, they begin on a four-week full-time internship in the community. Pfaff and Engh actually studied a year apart. But in talking with them, it is amazing how the stories they tell are similar – clearly they have a common

  • A Rocky Start Leads to a Steady Foundation https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2021/05/03/saucedo-palmerscholars/

    her being accepted into the PLU School of Nursing and receiving a degree, with help from Palmer Scholars, a Tacoma-based organization supporting postsecondary success for youth of color in Pierce County, Washington. Now, she serves as a nurse at the famed Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.A Winding Road Saucedo grew up a military kid in Lakewood, Washington. She attended Western Washington University and Tacoma Community College, before transferring into PLU’s nursing program.  “Becoming a nurse