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Kris Plaehn Executive Director of Center for Student Success Full Profile 253-535-7212 plaehnkh@plu.edu

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Homecoming Highlights Awards Recognition Alumni Profiles Alumni Events Class Notes Calendar Home Archive by category Alumni Profiles Saved by the Ball How Football led Jahleel Barnes to PLU, and to the Seahawks At the age of 23, Jahleel Barnes ’13... April 21, 2014 Musical Memories Choir of the West member recalls bus trip to the 1939 World's Fair in San Francisco Editors Note:... April 21, 2014 5 Lutes Play Major Roles at Tacoma’s Broadway Center And One, Adam Utley '04, Performed at TEDxTacoma Drastic

Highlights Awards Recognition Alumni Profiles Alumni Events Class Notes Calendar Home Archive by category Alumni Saved by the Ball How Football led Jahleel Barnes to PLU, and to the Seahawks At the age of 23, Jahleel Barnes ’13... April 21, 2014 Musical Memories Choir of the West member recalls bus trip to the 1939 World's Fair in San Francisco Editors Note:... April 21, 2014 5 Lutes Play Major Roles at Tacoma’s Broadway Center And One, Adam Utley '04, Performed at TEDxTacoma Drastic budget cuts have

Writing Center and directed the First-Year Experience Program of the core curriculum. In 2004-2006, at a particularly delicate period of core curriculum revision, he served as Chair of the University Faculty. We await Dr. Bergman’s next book (provisional title:  Parrot, Speak) to marvel once more at the fertile imagination, empathy, and finesse he brings to discerning what’s really going on in our relationships to other species, and theirs to us. And all of us are thankful that he will still teach two

Sociology, got both financial and emotional support for college from her family, as well as a financial aid package from PLU. She graduated with a degree in sociology and psychology, then went on to earn her master’s and Ph.D. in sociology at University of California, Riverside. Ann Auman, Dean of Natural Sciences “My parents always wanted me to go to college,” said Luther, the oldest of three siblings and the first to attend college in her family. Her parents — a homemaker-turned-paraeducator and a

Lutheran University started prioritizing the first-generation student experience, it rarely crossed her mind. Now, the dean of natural sciences wears it on a button — during new-student orientation, move-in day, even at events where prospective students might surface. “For a long time, I didn’t really think about being first-generation,” said Auman, who also serves as professor of biology. “It’s not like I put that label on myself. In more recent years, as PLU has put more of an emphasis on trying to

a mental health counselor via the TalkNow option. The Counseling Center has a Walk-in Hour available Monday – Friday, 2:00-3:00pm.  Students may walk in without an appointment to consult with a professional counselor regarding any issue of concern.  Service during the Walk-In Hour is on a first-come, first-served basis (2 people max). During business hours (8:00am-noon, 1:00-5:00pm), contact PLU Counseling, Health and Wellness Services at 253-535-7838 to schedule medical and mental health