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of assent according to a belief’s epistemic standing. But he suspects that there are also tendencies to make the strength of belief a function of the content of the belief rather than a function of its evidence. “I suspect,” he writes, “that one important [instance] is the tendency to hold fundamental religious beliefs rather strongly if one holds them at all. This tendency may itself be just a special case of a still more general tendency, that of holding one’s ‘life-orienting’ beliefs strongly

initiatives that included: 1) implementing a revised general education curriculum, 2) improving our assessment and faculty evaluation programs, 3) advancing the “Engage the World” campaign, 4) encouraging leadership development and sustainability, and, 5) beginning the 2020 long range planning process. During the past 12 months we have made significant progress in each area. Yet, as we gather today, it is clear that 2008-2009 became the year of “the great unplanned initiative” as all the plans that had

my graphic design, writing, research, and editing skills,” Kimura says. “I originally planned for this piece to be about 60-80 pages long, but it expanded to 135 pages total and the sheer amount of illustrations and general considerations about the design of the book (color, page layout, typography) taught me a lot about my own style, as well as just how much thought needs to go into designing and producing a book.” Cris Haake has created ceramic pieces that represent corals and other marine life

have known PLU for a long time, we don’t need a primer on what it is and what it stands for. But many people do and we must provide it. Positioned for the Future As everyone here knows, PLU doesn’t exist in a vacuum, and the challenges we face as an institution are varied and potentially daunting. The cost of higher education keeps rising, the general economy remains fragile, public support for higher education is declining, and other countries are matching or exceeding us in many measures of