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  • A Trip to the Archives? Book It, PLU Librarian Says https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2023/03/28/loftis-archive-interview/

    Sometimes you’re drawn to a career path, and other times you discover it by serendipity, as Lauren Loftis, Archivist & Special Collections Librarian at Pacific Lutheran University, did. “I carelessly stumbled into it. In fact, the first time I entered an archive was when I…

    experience, as well as the humanity sprinkled throughout the collections I handle.” We talked to her about her career.Make Library DonationsDonations of materials related to the history, development and operations of the university may be accepted. Connect by emailing archives@plu.edu.What attracted you to PLU? Before joining PLU, I worked as the Archivist & Digital Initiatives Librarian at Simmons University in Boston. When I saw the job posting for my current position, I thought it would be a great

  • Art History https://www.plu.edu/comm-media-designarts/staff/department/art-history/

    Communication, Media & Design Arts faculty and staff.

    Heather Mathews Chair & Associate Professor of Art History Full Profile 253-535-7574 hmathews@plu.edu

  • History https://www.plu.edu/learningisforever/history/

    The History of Learning Is ForEverIn April 1998, Learning Is ForEver affiliated with Pierce College’s Continuing Education Department.  Pierce College invited citizens of the county to join in the planning process for a Lifetime Learning Institute (LLI).  Twelve individuals met in November 2000 to begin learning how to launch an Elderhostel “at home” program (Currently called Road Scholar’s LLI).  Members of the Edmonds College LLI provided valuable assistance with the non profit paperwork

  • The Story Depends on the Teller: Book Arts in the Pacific Northwest opens March 9 https://www.plu.edu/comm-media-designarts/news/2016/03/01/the-story-depends-on-the-teller-book-arts-in-the-pacific-northwest%E2%80%A8-opens-march-9/

    Some books are shipped from Amazon, others are found cataloged in libraries, under beds with lost socks, digitized in e-readers, collecting dust on shelves or housed on nightstands. Other books are labored over, crafted with care, written, printed, drawn, sculpted and bound with artist hands.…

    University Gallery presents an invitational exhibit featuring notable, regional artists whose work utilizes the book. The show will explore the book’s long history as a vessel for stories in new and contemporary ways. “The Story Depends on the Teller: Book Arts in the Pacific Northwest” kicks off March 9, with an opening reception from 5-7pm, and continues through April 6. “This area has a strong population of readers, and is home to many writing programs, which leads to people wanting to create a book

  • The Contemplation of the Humanities https://www.plu.edu/prism/news/the-contemplation-of-the-humanities/

    Originally published in 2016 But, for the time being, here we all are, Back in the moderate Aristotelian city Of darning and the Eight-Fifteen, where Euclid’s geometry And Newton’s mechanics would account for our experience, And the kitchen table exists because I scrub it. It…

    paper and crows. [4] PLU’s Mortvedt Library The ironies of our Time Being, brought to imaginative expression, perhaps lie in our increasing forgetfulness of the humanizing gifts from the past. Even the meaning of liberal arts education has become confused and debased by the contemporary industrialization of education. The Humanities embody the two central concerns of liberal education traced by Bruce Kimball in his history Orators and Philosophers [5]: recollection and the study of words. In the

  • Elements of the Ceremony https://www.plu.edu/commencement/elements-of-the-ceremony/

    The Commencement ceremony is a celebration of the Pacific Lutheran University community and all it represents.

    and status of a university in 1960; it appears on official university documents from 1960 to 2012. The design incorporates elements that symbolize the University’s heritage and mission, including a “Chi Rho,” an abbreviation of the first two letters of “Christ” in Greek; the book of knowledge; the lamp of learning; and an evergreen tree symbolizing the Pacific Northwest. The banner precedes the President’s Council, made up of the Provost and the Vice Presidents of the University.The Crowned Lion

  • 2012 – The Lightener of the Stars https://www.plu.edu/multimedia-recordings/recordings/2012-the-lightener-of-the-stars/

    Choir of the West - Richard Nance, Conductor

    The Lightener of the Stars Choir of the West – Richard Nance, Conductor Order CDfrom Garfield Book Company at PLUThis CD includes selections from the 2011 tour to France and Germany, where the choir won top honors at the prestigious Harmonie Festival. Also included are works from the 2012 tour and performance at the American Choral Directors Association Northwestern Division Conference. The title work, The Lightener of the Stars, was composed by PLU graduate Jason Michael Saunders.   The

  • The Science of Antiquity https://www.plu.edu/prism/the-science-of-antiquity/

    After millenniums of sex and centuries of poetry, the love poem as understood by Shakespeare and Donne, and by Oxford undergraduates – the true-life confessions of the poet in love, immortalizing

    Altertumswissenschaft: The Science of Antiquity By Tyler Travillian After millenniums of sex and centuries of poetry, the love poem as understood by Shakespeare and Donne, and by Oxford undergraduates – the true-life confessions of the poet in love, immortalizing the mistress, who is actually the cause of the poem – that was invented in Rome… — The Invention of Love, Act 1, Tom Stoppard A History of Classics Classics is horizontal where other disciplines are vertical. All disciplines in the

  • Life of the Mind https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2013/10/17/life-of-the-mind-dreamers/

    Life of the Mind: Democracy & the American Dream – for DREAMers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47Pk401CS6M About the DREAM Act – and DREAMers Named after the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, a measure first proposed in 2001, DREAMers are undocumented immigrant high-school graduates who are…

    “establishing justice” or “the blessings of liberty” found in the Preamble to the Constitution do not yet apply to everyone who lives in America. And so they challenge us to move away from punitive treatment of DREAMers, lifelong residents who were brought to the United States as children and raised here. Because now, these millions of undocumented youth are caught in a restrictive legal limbo. In her latest book “Living the DREAM: The Stories of Undocumented Latino Youth,” PLU professor Maria Chávez and

  • MISSION AND HISTORY https://www.plu.edu/faculty-handbook/mission-and-history/

    PLU seeks to educate students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care—for other people, for their communities, and for the earth.

    institution was reorganized as a university in 1960, reclaiming its original name. It presently includes a College of Health Professions, College of Humanities, Interdisciplinary Studies, and Social Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, College of Professional Studies, and both graduate and continuing education programs. PLU has been closely and productively affiliated with the Lutheran church throughout its history. It is now a university of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, owned by the more