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complete and utter pivot for everyone.” Summer brought time to breathe for all three teachers. Brizuela and Lord prepared for fall classrooms with virtual options, while Zwang entered a Montessori teacher-training program.  Sarah Lord's children doing school work on the kitchen table. School Year 2020-2021: New Approaches By the fall of 2020, Brizuela felt more comfortable teaching music in a virtual classroom and encouraging students in conversation and interactions. Although students often turned off

Lewis & Clark College after not getting recruited as heavily as he’d liked. After losing the training camp battle to become the starter and being relegated to a backup role, he quit the football team and ultimately dropped out of school after just one semester. Looking back, he admits that reaction to a surprising setback wasn’t his proudest moment.“Lewis & Clark came knocking and I said, awesome, I’m going to play as a freshman. I’ll be the man, I like being the man. That’ll be fun,” Shomler said

children and five grandchildren, his undergraduate degree was a new kind challenge. “I felt overwhelmed. And I really questioned myself,” Brass said. “‘Is this for me? Can I do this?’ But the military instilled the will to achieve.” Brass said that first semester felt like basic training: shock and awe. But he persevered — he graduates Saturday, earning a degree in kinesiology, health and fitness promotion. “I’m ecstatic,” Brass said. “It’s hard to conceive I am graduating with a bachelor’s degree

had laid the groundwork, Le Chambon was more than equal to the task – right in their own small corner of the world. While it is important to be global citizens concerned and engaged with the larger world, the training grounds for our ethical action starts in Parkland. How do we respond to the very real needs in our midst? What will we do when someone comes to our door, to my door, in need? A display from PLU’s “Day of Vocation” in 2016 Second, we can respond authentically from our own identity

Regent’s Park College, and in Montevideo, Uruguay, where I pursued language training in Spanish.” Matt: “As Marc said, the availability of professors at PLU is awesome, and you can really get to know them. Right off the bat they’re willing to engage you when you find a topic or question that interests you. For me these interactions led to conversations about travel and research, and I have now completed two research fellowships at PLU. I have also visited Italy two times. For a kid from a small town in

training and education in the professions which modern society requires” [my italics]?To date, we have begun discussions about new programs in which courses offered by faculty in the professional schools would be combined with courses traditionally offered by faculty in the College of Arts and Sciences. Professors in the professional schools are also being drawn into foundational courses, such as the Freshman experience. Potential cross-disciplinary programs that result from such creative overlaps are

hours before I take the Washington State Marriage and Family Therapy Licensure test. Then, I want to complete a total of five years of therapy and take classes to become an AAMFT supervisor for the state of Washington. My hope it to end up supervising therapist-in-training while conducting a private practice. My reason for choosing a career path in marriage and family therapy is that if I can end my day knowing I improved the quality of life for a person, I know I am fulfilling my personal passion

problems in addition to thinking in humanistic and artistic ways. PLU is at its heart and in its origin a liberal arts college. Beginning with the Master of Arts in Education in 1951, PLU began to offer professional and graduate degree programs that built on the foundation of the liberal arts education and provided more specialized or applied education and training. This is the position that PLU is in now.  We have approximately 92 percent of our students in the undergraduate program and 8 percent in