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training and practice. Through coursework, mentoring support, and an applied project, M.S. candidates develop the knowledge and skills they need to become effective evidence-based practitioners who can enhance their own career while positively impacting those they serve. Making a career change? Connect with us to learn about Pacific Lutheran University graduate programs.Regardless of your reason for switching careers, PLU graduate programs can help you gain the knowledge and experience you need to find

Team to help the families get settled and adjust to life in America, said John Summerour ’87, a member of the team. “It was not long after their arrival that we recognized the families had special challenges in the areas of education,” Summerour said. “They had no access to formal education in Somalia, and when they arrived, they were illiterate in their own language. “We realized the kids were going to have special needs, and it became obvious they needed additional tutoring.” The church applied

applied to The Borgen Project. “That sort of nonfiction, research-oriented writing is something I’m pretty confident in doing,” Hurtt said. “And it was nice to use it in a practical sense rather than a scholarly one.” At The Borgen Project, there are few paid staff members. Most are volunteers and interns, which made the Long fellowship incredibly valuable to Hurtt, who was also taking a summer Spanish class. “I really appreciated the scholarship,” she said. “It made it so I was able to do this unpaid

wanted to provide students with accessible, valuable resources that we could see a purpose to as students ourselves. Everything we selected to place in our care packages was intentional and resourceful.”  To obtain funding for the care packages the students applied for a grant through the Student Activities and Resource Fee (SARF) committee.“Essentially how the SARF funding worked was for us to come up with a very concrete proposal for helping students,” said Haneda. “We brainstormed a bunch of ideas

this method of interaction. It was a very costly way to do business with others, it takes a while before people will trust you again and I suspect that while they may forgive, they don’t forget. So the next time you feel the blood rushing to your head as you launch yourself (uninvited) to render assistance or advice: try to take a minute to recall the words of noted writer, philosopher and historian Will Durant: “One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a

triumphs. I look at nursing as an opportunity to grow as a person, to contribute to something or someone other than myself, and to empower others to become the best version of themselves. What motivates you? I’m motivated by the life lessons I’ve learned from my patients. Working in the ICU has allowed me to see that good health is a blessing and that anything can happen. I’ve learned to live in the moment and to never take anything for granted. Nursing has become a part of my life and now my identity

could allocate that money however we wanted to in the stock market. We then went through the semester seeing if we were going to make or lose money from our investments.” Ouanesisouk, who was offered a job by Amazon Web Services months before graduation, says team projects that connected business lessons with the needs of local businesses were a highlight of her years in the program. “In a business marketing class we had to reach out to local or PLU organizations in improving their marketing

in their teacher-child lessons on Zoom. Students could upload their practice sessions via the learning app Seesaw. In-person circle time involves a robot that holds an iPad, seated amid the students, so the virtual and in-person students can interact.  One challenge: required masks can muffle the sound of letters when teaching reading. Zwang discovered that the online kids benefited from seeing her unmasked mouth, demonstrating the difference between a “p” and “b” sound. Zwang’s children are only

department, not a student group, not one professor doing community research. But the full weight of the university, including our alumni, needs to be applied to taking on some of the most complex challenges  and opportunities in our community. This is what I’ve learned so far — when we invest in PLU’s people and facilities, we invest in a cadre of changemakers who we call Lutes. And the world needs more Lutes.  There’s so much learning that we have to do in playing this role, but that’s the beauty of our

experience: My experience at PLU has been unforgettable. I have been blessed with opportunities to get involved in many parts of campus, participating in Red Carpet Club, Campus Ministry, choir, intramural sports, and Psi Chi, the psychology honors society. I also studied away for J-Term of my sophomore year in Quito, Ecuador. It’s hard to sum up my experience, because I feel like in each of my four years I have learned new life lessons with new people and in new places. My favorite parts of PLU have