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  • Global Studies. Hometown: Rancho Santa Margarita, California. Accomplishments at PLU: Club Keithley; Women’s Lacrosse; For the King; Relay for Life committee for two years; Study Away in Kolkata, India, through a Service Learning Program; received Van Beek Service Scholarship; 2015 Partner in Education Award from the FPSD; Pinnacle Society; Mortar Board Society; International Sociology Honor Society; Orientation Guide as well as a Student Orientation Coordinator for PLU’s New Student Orientation

  • efforts in making inclusive excellence a core value of PLU. We seek to foster a community that goes beyond tolerance of difference to one that is guided by the principles of equity, social justice, cultural competence and engaged citizenship. This comes through in our academic work including our annual Holocaust Education Conference, and this fall will also mark the beginning of a Minor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, one of only a few in the nation. It comes through in our commitment to studying

  • inclusion, and of discerning one’s vocation and service in the world. Jen RudeUniversity Pastor“Lutheran higher education is the foundation for all the other values that we live. Lutheran higher education is the wisdom and the nourishment that supports those values and those ways of living together.” Rooted in Questioning “In order to understand the present, and ultimately the future, we must understand the tradition we’re rooted in,” says Marit Trelstad, endowed chair of Lutheran Studies and director

  • faculty, including a PLU faculty Site Director for some programs, as well as programs that are more independent and less structured. Does my student have to apply to study away? How does the admissions process work? How likely is it that my student will be accepted into the study away program they applied for?You will find information on how and where to apply, selection criteria, and more here. Programs may have limited capacities for how many students are able to participate, and others may not. How

  • Office for payments to student accounts. Who do I contact if my payment doesn't appear on my credit card or bank statement?Call the Office of Financial Services at 253.535.7117 between the hours of 8am to 5pm. What happens if I get a refund?If you qualify for a refund on any part of your credit card payment, the refund will be applied back onto your credit card and the convenience fee that is applicable to that amount will be refunded to your credit card. How can I pay from overseas?PLU’s payment

  • Achievement (MESA); Residential Life Office; Student Engagement Office; Center for Gender Equity; Diversity Center; Women’s and Gender Studies Program Executive Committee; and the University Dispute Resolution Committee, among others. The University Diversity Advisory Board will be appointed by the president, in consultation with the UDC co-chairs. General Purpose: To lead the development of a strategic plan for a diverse and inclusive living, learning, and working community and engage the administration

  • Fund Jack G. Shaheen Mass Communication Scholarship Davis Wright Tremaine LLP: Pre-Law Diversity Fellowship Job Websites: Diversity Employers IMDiversity INROADS Workplace Diversity Publications: Doctoral Program Resources for Minority Students Equal Opportunity Publications Middle East Monitor Professional Organizations: American Muslim Health Professionals Middle East Studies Association National Iranian American Council Accounting Resources and Organizations for Minorities State and Federal Laws

  • accepted gender roles, patriotism, and the main characteristic of the charro himself, his machismo.” LaRee Graham“Through the Eyes of Native Americans: Film, Alcohol and the Mainstream Audience” LaRee Graham For years there has been studies done on Native Americans- often this has led to a fascination for Native American culture. However, when it comes to our fascinations, Hollywood has profited off of the white imagination for years. Hollywood has continually re-created the Native American figure to

  • beliefs, practices, imaginings that people have attempted to erase or eradicate. That’s a different way of thinking about the work.  Maya: Which I think, like Tyler said, is resurfacing, returning, unearthing and making space for things to breathe after having been buried.Narrator: (With a sigh of appreciation into the thoughtful silence following that evocative image, remembering Maya had focused her studies at PLU “around inequality and its intersections with our natural environment.”) Whew. Tyler

  • global courses and projects, and in 2013 created an innovative new course in the PLU School of Business that allows students to earn internship credit and participate in a unique, global project. In this course, students experience and grow in the areas of community building and engagement, outreach and education (locally and globally), fundraising, crowdfunding, and international nonprofit projects. The course utilizes an interdisciplinary approach blending business, philosophy, Hispanic studies