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the general practice of higher education institutions in the U.S., especially private universities, which routinely announce three to five percent tuition increases each spring. “On average, students at private universities in the Puget Sound region are paying $5,391 (12.9%) more in their senior year than they did in their first year,” explained PLU President Allan Belton. “One of the problems with this model is that when tuition creeps up by three or four percent each year, a student’s annual

Venice Jakowchuk ’23 travels through time, a dancer’s journey toward archaeology Posted by: mhines / May 23, 2023 Image: Venice Jakowchuk ’23 is a history and anthropology double major and a dance minor. (PLU Photo / Sy Bean) May 23, 2023 By Emily Holt, MFA ’16PLU Marketing and Communications Guest WriterFor Venice Jakowchuk ’23, a single general education class sparked a passion that has since taken her—literally and/or metaphorically—from Herefordshire, England and Aberdeen, Scotland to the

PLU to host TEDxTacoma 2016: Speakers include YWCA CEO, best-selling novelist and Army lieutenant general Posted by: Zach Powers / March 13, 2016 Image: PLU Associate Professor of Politics and Government Maria Chavez-Pringle gave a talk titled “(de)Americanization of Latino Youth” at TEDxTacoma 2015. (Photo by John Froschauer/PLU) March 13, 2016 By Zach Powers '10PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (March. 13, 2016)- TEDxTacoma 2016: Healthy Future will welcome a diverse bill of local

, travel awards for students with financial need, on-campus housing provided free-of-charge Bridging the Gap: Innovative curricular design for increasing success in undergraduate chemistry General chemistry is a required course for most STEM majors. As such, it is sometimes referred to as a “gateway course”; success in general chemistry is required for students to proceed in their major. Dr. Buckley is passionate about student success and has created a novel preparatory course for students who do not

Volunteers Needed! Posted by: alemanem / February 1, 2018 February 1, 2018 ACS-GCI is now accepting volunteers for the 22nd Annual Green Chemistry & Engineering Conference in Portland, Oregon! Volunteers are needed in the following areas: onsite conference registration, information assistance, technical and poster session assistance, and more. As a conference volunteer, you will receive complimentary access to the general conference proceedings for the entire day you volunteer. * Slots will

for General Douglas MacArthur and is handed out each year by the U.S. Army Cadet Command – the parent organization of Army ROTC – in conjunction with the Norfolk, Virginia-based General Douglas MacArthur Foundation. Each year, one ROTC program representing each of the eight U.S. Army Brigades is named a recipient of the award and represents the cream of the crop of 273 ROTC programs nationwide. Since 1989, the award has been given annually to individual units in the Army ROTC program. The award

March 23, 2010 PLU, one of top business schools nationwide named to The Princeton Review’s “Student Opinion Honors for Business Schools” By Greg Brewis Pacific Lutheran University is one of 15 graduate schools of business named to The Princeton Review’s second annual “Student Opinion Honors for Business Schools.” PLU is listed in the categories of global management and general management. PLU’s MBA program was named as one of the top business schools by students surveyed by The Princeton Review

research, I use a gender lens to understand the world,” says Ciabattari. “So the Women’s and Gender Studies Program is a perfect fit.” Ciabattari says PLU also helped lead to her involvement with the Speakers Bureau. “My immediate inspiration was a presentation I gave in 2012 at the PLU Summer Theological Conference,” she says. “The presentation sparked great a conversation, and its success inspired me to seek out other opportunities to discuss sociological perspectives on families with general

across the U.S. and beyond create drone parks specifically for the recreational use of drones, and as drones become an increasingly popular gift idea, evoking the rhetorical framing of “drones as toys.” On the other hand, its use in the military and intelligence communities for both ISR (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance) and targeted strikes engenders a number of responses ranging from enthusiasm to outrage to ethical unease in both the military community and the general public. However

blow of emergencies for these students.” The NADA Foundation established the fund to honor Sanchez, former vice president and general manager of General Motors’ Oldsmobile division and the first president of Saturn Corporation. Since 1985, the Sanchez fund has provided $550,000 in grants to private and independent colleges across the country. Winston, a past NADA corporate secretary, was an accomplished attorney dedicated to ethical practices. The Winston fund, which was established in 1990, has