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  • Economics major Nellie Moran ’15 and President Barack Obama at a fundraiser in Seattle this summer. (Photo by White House Photographer Michael Rosenburg.) PLU Interns Make Interesting and Key Connections Over the Summer By Barbara Clements, PLU Marketing and Communications First Surprise : President Obama…

    . “The connections you make are invaluable,” says Moran, who counts the DNC internship as her third so far. “I can’t stress this enough. The mentors you make in these internships will help you succeed in the future.” Moran applied for the highly competitive DNC internship at the recommendation of a friend at a Girls State summer leadership and citizenship program. Finance major Simbarashe Change ’15 says he found out about his summer internship at Seattle-based Russell Investments by checking

  • Dear campus community, Pacific Lutheran University’s community is deeply rooted in care. It is in our mission to continue creating a campus environment that welcomes, values and protects the voices and vocations of our community members and recognizes the humanity in all of us —…

    on our campus. Our mission calls us to embrace people from all races, all faiths and no faith, all sexual and gender identities, all physical and mental abilities, all socio-economic and citizenship statuses, and all ages and backgrounds. Thank you for working to make things better in our community. We learn together and are better equipped to serve the greater world through purposeful work — work that is enriched by the collective and diverse voices of passionate, thoughtful Lutes. Take care of

  • TACOMA, WASH. (April 18, 2018) — One of the first cohorts of Pacific Lutheran University’s nascent Peace Corps Prep program will soon embark on a journey from the West Coast to West Africa. The three humanitarians — Madeline Wentz ’18, Haley Bridgewater ’18 and Margaret…

    , global citizenship requires a nuanced and open-minded appreciation of diverse populations. The prep program underscores diversity training with targeted cross-cultural coursework and workshops, to prepare students to be ethical and thoughtful in their volunteer work. Bridgewater said the best advice she received in the program was to listen and learn from the communities she will serve. “The experience should be collaborative, not imposing,” she said. While Peace Corps Prep has been successful in

  • TACOMA, WASH. (March 21, 2018)- For Gracie Anderson ’21, activism is a family affair. The Pacific Lutheran University student addressed a crowd of roughly 100 community members for the “Will Washington Be Next” rally protesting gun violence on March 14. Her mother passed out posters…

    you can bet her family, and their dinner-table breed of activism, will be with her along the way. Read Previous PLU Psychology’s Artime awarded research contract Read Next Lute navigates a complicated internal struggle along her path to United States citizenship 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 Caitlyn Babcock ’25 wins first place in 2024 Angela Meade Vocal

  • Ned Schaumberg is a Visiting Assistant Professor at Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) who teaches postcolonial and global literature, and researches the role of water in literary and environmental contexts. He could also save your life. According to his parents, Schaumberg’s journey to professorship began at…

    classrooms things to both one’s work, one’s vocation, but also to one’s citizenship, and how one lives from day to day and month to month, and that’s amazing to me.” But in true PLU fashion, Schaumberg is quick to recognize his privilege as a white male, and the effects of his embodiment in a classroom. He acknowledges the limits of his knowledge, and how the authors he teaches, who are primarily women, have a different life experience than himself. Schuamberg believes not acknowledging his embodiment is

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Oct. 13, 2017)- “We made a magazine!” Taryn Collis exclaimed to a group of Pacific Lutheran University students and several inmates at the Washington Corrections Center for Women. “It’s impressive,” continued Collis, an actor and educator with Seattle-based Freehold Theatre Lab Studio. “Everybody…

    years, is likely to sing the program’s praises. She’s happy she took the risk of trusting strangers. “To know our work is being published, that’s awesome,” she said. “Sometimes, we aren’t always heard.” Read Previous Local and international film critics lose their marbles — in a good way — over Lute’s live-action short film Read Next For PLU grad, American citizenship is personal COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are

  • Our Changing Face By Barbara Clements and Steve Hansen Once a month Karl Stumo, vice president for admission, his wife, and his three children dine at the University Center’s new dining commons. The five sit together and have what would otherwise be a nice family…

    Nordquist’s history of PLU, “Education for Service, Pacific Lutheran University, 1890-1990,” the university was a “showcase institution” in the handling of global studies, as determined by to the U.S. Office of Education. PLU professors soon began traveling to China to teach and, students were starting to study abroad. By 1988, 6 percent of the student population had citizenship of someplace other than the United States. In the following years, that percentage has not changed much. Today, that percentage

  • Dear Campus Community: This morning, the White House announced a plan to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program in six months. I want to affirm to you that PLU remains firmly committed to the well being of ALL of our students, regardless…

    their citizenship or immigration status, religion or other status. PLU protects free expression of ideas as vital learning in an educational setting. Freedom of speech sometimes protects controversial ideas and sometimes protects even offensive and hurtful language; however, it does not protect personal threats, discriminatory conduct or other acts of misconduct that violate the Student Code of Conduct, university policies, or federal, state and local laws. I want to reiterate, in the strongest

  • Dear Campus Community: It has been reported by many reputable news organizations recently that aides are clearing the way for President Donald Trump to take the first steps toward transforming the immigration system possibly as soon as he takes office tomorrow, fulfilling a major campaign…

    discrimination or harassment against members of its community based on their citizenship or immigration status, religion or other status. PLU protects free expression of ideas as vital learning in an educational setting. Freedom of speech sometimes protects controversial ideas and sometimes protects even offensive and hurtful language; however, it does not protect personal threats, discriminatory conduct or other acts of misconduct that violate the Student Code of Conduct, university policies, or federal

  • Washington D.C. (March. 9, 2017)- The small group of Pacific Lutheran University students, standing huddled together in a jam-packed section toward the front of the National Mall, remained silent. Some shook their heads in disbelief. Others wore expressions of shock. Two couldn’t stop tears from…

    happened, our students responded in the best ways open to them, not as objective and neutral witnesses to history, but as sensitive and conscientious participants in it.” Sill agreed, noting that the day, in many ways, was even more educational than she expected. “Our students wound up learning an even more important lesson about citizenship in a democracy,” she said. “Knowing the value of being the voice of opposition when it is uncomfortable and how to do so safely and respectfully.” Meanwhile, the