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  • ‘No Salvation Apart from Earth’ https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2010/10/11/no-salvation-apart-from-earth/

    took a course entitled “Modern Thought and Christian Consciousness.” The course was taught by a professor named David Knutson, for which the lecture series is named, along with his wife Marilyn. Brocker was introduced to the work of Bonhoeffer by Knutson. While Brocker was attending PLU, and taking that course, Knutson went legally blind. “It was inspiring how he found a way to keep on teaching in the face of this challenge,” Brocker said. “I have always admired his love of learning and of engaging

  • Building relationships, seizing opportunity https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2012/03/19/building-relationships-seizing-opportunity/

    to the Pacific Northwest. Thompsen had been finishing a two-year program at a business college in Norway and was ready to go on to a university. First, he made his way to a university in New Orleans. A semester later, he was ready to move on. Classes where hundreds of students packed a lecture hall to be taught by teaching assistants, not professors, was disappointing to say the least, Thompsen recalled. By chance, he had a friend attending PLU. It became apparent to him early on  that it might

  • The connection between the Sun and the Northern Lights https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2012/11/02/the-connection-between-the-sun-and-the-northern-lights/

    , senior advisor the Norwegian Space Centre. With stunning space video clips, Brekke’s fascinating sun-aurora presentation attends to all interest levels. His astrophysics-research credentials, international collaborations, peer-reviewed articles, university teaching, prestigious awards, Photograph by Bjorn Anders Nymoen, An aurora over Nesoddtangen, Norway, billows out into the distance on October 9. and popular IMAX theater appearances promise vibrant material for scientists and non-scientists alike

  • International Star Imparts Wisdom to Operatic Lutes https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2015/03/03/operamasterclass/

    , it is not about us.” Read Previous Lutes Show Passion for Vocation with National Teaching Achievement Read Next PLU Senior T.R. Sullivan on his Internship at the Washington State Legislature COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS PLU College of Liberal Studies welcomes Dean Stephanie Johnson July 24, 2024 Three students share how scholarships support them in

  • Tenor Noah Baetge ’08 Makes His Eleventh Appearance at The Met https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2015/10/23/noah-baetge-the-met/

    experience … make your opportunities.” Tannhäuser will have its final showing on Oct. 31 but it will be streamed in HD in various theaters across the country. (Photo courtesy NoahBaetge.com) Read Previous Seattle Business Magazine Editor Teaching Journalism Course at PLU Read Next ‘UnPLUgged’ to Conclude With Recycling Fashion Show on Oct. 30 COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window

  • Spring edition of The People’s Gathering will encourage attendees to ‘Double Down on Justice’ https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2023/03/17/peoples-gathering-spring-2023/

    in the public space. The conversation will examine what it means to double down on becoming an anti-racist leader.” Featured presenters for the morning session are PLU Professor of History Dr. Beth Kraig and Dr. Tessa Sutton, the assistant superintendent of equity, diversity, and inclusion at the South Bend School Corporation in Indiana.Kraig’s discussion, “Taking Stolen Goods Seriously,” will focus on how teaching history, in particular about racism in the United States, has become complicated

  • Tools and Tips https://www.plu.edu/oaa/policies-procedures/tools-and-tips/

    Disability Learning Disability Visual Impairment Additional Resources Do’s and Don’ts of Working With a Student with A Disability Ideas for Accommodating Individuals with ADD/ADHD Ideas for Accommodating Individuals with Learning Disabilities  Teaching and Assessment Strategies for students with Autism Spectrum Disorder Strategies for Inclusive Language Ways that Faculty Can Help Students with Disabilities When Faculty are TOO Accommodating Working Together: Faculty and Students with Disabilities Working

  • Long Range Planning https://www.plu.edu/president/long-range-planning/

    Long Range PlanningPacific Lutheran University has identified three meta-priorities that infuse all of the work at the university: Lutheran Higher Education, Market Position, and Diversity, Justice and Sustainability (DJS). Advance Academic Excellence 201320142020 (GOAL) Faculty Quality Excellence in Teaching, Scholarship, ServiceMetrics created Incoming Student Quality (measured under SEMAC priority) Program Quality Major/Minor Programs % of disciplines w/honor societies % of departments that

  • Learning With Our Neighbors https://www.plu.edu/prism/learning-with-our-neighbors/

    Trinity Lutheran Church.  They are teaching my students and me about our neighborhood and showing us how to study ethics while working alongside our neighbors — pulling weeds, digging holes, washing dishes.The class is still fundamentally about critical thinking: we struggle with hard questions of Christian morality and the diversity of possible answers.  But now when we discuss the complexity of Christian economic ethics, we relate it to the socioeconomic realities around us.  When we discuss the

  • Student Research Conference Fall 2019 https://www.plu.edu/psychology/student-research-conference-fall-2019/

    & Yuliya Borenko Exploring the Effects of Teaching Styles on Students’ Anxiety and Self-Esteem 6. Treasure Chinneth & Carly Wanager Doing the Job of Two: Attitudes Towards Marital Status and Gender 7. Madeline White Dreams: What Are They Made Of? 8. Taryn Jansen Cultural Divide: Differences Between Authoritarian and Tiger Parenting Styles 9. Taylor Greig Individual Differences in Fundamental Motives and Perceptions of Sexual Assault 10. Jake Mahnke Prejudice Towards Out-groups is Shaped by Unconscious