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administration. As an educator, he has served on the faculty of Sam Houston State University and as a visiting faculty lecturer at Princeton University, teaching courses in music history, music appreciation, world music cultures, music performance, and interdisciplinary arts courses. He also spent six years as the Upper School Music Director for The Benjamin School (Palm Beach Gardens, FL), where he taught choir, band, orchestra, piano, and music theory. He continues sharing his passion for music by
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position. The Powell and Heller families have been committed to teaching the lessons of the Holocaust. That commitment is evident in the $1.5 million they have helped raise to create a chair position for the program. Two million dollars more is needed, but the drive and desire to never forget the lessons history can teach people are there, Powell said. “I believe everyone can make a difference,” she said. “I have witnessed this here at PLU.” The Holocaust is forever engrained in the life of Harry
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Monty, and Clapp said it will provide audiences with singing, dancing, acting and fun. “This is your traditional American musical,” Clapp said. “It’s really underpinned to what’s happening right now with the economy.” Although he didn’t want to give away too much of the surprise, Clapp said there will be portions of the play with “suggested nudity.”Clapp, who started teaching and directing at PLU in 1995, is no stranger to productions such as this one. He estimates that in the last 16 years he has
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North Carolina-Chapel Hill, North Carolina, began his academic career in 1974 at PLU, offering the university’s first college-level Holocaust course. Dr. Browning’s research and teaching excellence put PLU on the academic landscape of Holocaust and Genocide Studies. His work continues to influence the field of Holocaust scholarship worldwide. The Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education is made possible by the Powell Family Foundation, with special thanks to Nancy Powell and Carol Heller. We
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intellectual development. When he is not teaching, writing, or seeing to administrative duties, Dr. Rogers can usually be found watching international soccer and lamenting the poor performance of his beloved Liverpool Football Club. Dr. Scott L. Rogers Back: Appreciations
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Charles Bergman: A Most Adventurous ProfessorDr. Charles Bergman begins his phased retirement in Summer 2015 after thirty-eight unusually interesting and accomplished years at PLU. His teaching, leadership, and writing have garnered the highest recognition from within and without the university. The true measure of his achievements, though, must be taken from more than his specific awards. Peering more closely, one sees the truly remarkable character of his life: wildly adventurous, yet so
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restore the integrity of PLU’s language requirement and oversaw the founding of Hong International Hall, on whose task force he has served since 2006. Mark’s institution of the annual International Poetry festival in 2002 represents his most personal legacy to PLU. Ceremoniously, Mark lit the flame of poetry (a candle) and invited students, faculty, and staff to share poems in any language over tea and scones. Erudition, patience, and kindness are the hallmarks of Mark’s teaching, whether in French
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described PLU students in a way that is worth repeating. In all of her years tutoring students, both those enrolled at Oxford and those like our students who are visiting, she said that her PLU student was in the top 5% of all she had tutored. To those outside of PLU, this might raise eyebrows. I mean, it is Oxford after all, right? To those of us who have the good fortune of teaching PLU students, this comes as no surprise. So, what might this anecdote suggest? First, PLU continues to recruit the very
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direct social work practice and first year experience program, but also has taught short-term domestic and abroad off campus courses. Her current research interests are in the area of public housing and immigrant communities as well as program evaluation. Most recent publications focus on challenges and strengths of public housing residents, development of community in public and mixed housing developments, student learning and growth in study away experiences, and teaching strategies for social work.
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Professor of Communication returns from sabbatical Joanne Lisosky, PLU Professor of Communication, returned from sabbatical this fall after completing a manuscript for her book and traveling and teaching in Azerbaijan. In the summer and fall of 2010 Lisosky completed the manuscript for a book titled, “War on Words: Who Should Protect… October 19, 2011 CommunicationFacultyJournalism
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