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accolades, Hrabowski was named by President Obama to chair the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for African Americans in 2012. U.S. News & World Report named him one of “America’s Best Leaders,” and ranked UMBC the nation’s No. 1 “Up and Coming” university for six years (2009-14). Among its other honors from the publication, UMBC earned top-10 recognition for “most innovative” universities (2015-17) and was among the nation’s leading institutions for “Best Undergraduate Teaching

around growing up in this community and now graduating from its local university? During my senior year, I’ve been thinking about it a lot more and, seeing as my being a teacher is becoming a closer reality, it’s made me want to give back to my community. I really am appreciative that I was able to grow up in this area and I was able to get to go to college at PLU. So I would like to go back and teach, and if possible, at my old high school. Read Previous Computer science major Cody Uehara ’22 works

Fund did. “That’s the real beauty of this,” he said. And for Floyd, there is another beautiful thing – he got a great job out of it, too. As a senior, Floyd landed a gig at the Tacoma-based financial powerhouse Russell Investments. He has no doubt that managing a real portfolio helped him get the job. “It’s important to have actual experience,” Floyd said. This is the type of thing PLU’s School of Business does very well. Through its internship programs, professional clubs, and numerous

-represented of Earth. The chairs represented the natural world, the poor, and future generations of humans and other species. The retired professor now lives in New Mexico. On a wall in his home there is a poem by Wendell Berry that reminds one of not only what is at stake, but the responsibility of all life to cherish life. “To cherish what remains of the Earth and to foster its renewal is our only legitimate hope of survival,” he said, quoting Berry. The writing, Rasmussen noted, is literally “on the

Symposium uplifts collaborative student-faculty research Posted by: Kari Plog / April 3, 2017 Image: Mackenzie Deane and Associate Professor of Chemistry Tina Saxowsky work in a biology lab at PLU. (Photo/John Froschauer) April 3, 2017 By Brooke Thames '18PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (April 3, 2017)- Pacific Lutheran University is aiming to increase visibility of student-faculty research across campus with its first Undergraduate Research Symposium on April 8. Previously, an

January 14, 2010 Explore! 2010 Draws Record Numbers By Brielle Erickson The Explore! first-year student retreat celebrated its seventh year as part of the Pacific Lutheran University experience this past weekend at Camp Berachah in nearby Auburn. Every year, about 150 first-year Lutes pile into buses loaded with overnight gear, excited to spend some time away from the daily routine of homework, classes and jobs. Student group leader Jeremy Loween rallies first-year students for some fun

, multicultural experience. It really drove home that even small, personal actions can be used to shape our sense of who we are. Though we share a lot of the same worries and concerns with the students who visited from China, there were still remarkable differences in our day-to-day lives. I think that demonstrates the breadth of the human experience.” The idea for the activity—and its speed-dating format—originated as a way to diversify the experiences of the students’ tours. Generally, students brought by

initiatives developed by state education officials and help bring them to local districts. An example: Small school districts might not have enough funding to support a full-time school nurse. But the ESD can bring together two school districts, with each sharing half the cost of a nursing position. During the pandemic, the ESD took on the role of helping school districts in its regional network to solve problems. Virtual weekly meetings between district administrators proved so successful that they

, adolescence, family relationships, illness, death, and much more in a way informed by an understanding of a wide range of human stories. Not just by aggregate data.”  (Nussbaum, 26) Studying in the Humanities, then, means seeing the world authentically. It means trying to understand the richness of human experience, to trace its history, to value its variability. The humanities prompt us to ask who we are and how we came to be this way. They ask us to reflect, to understand, to see knowledge as a process