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that same leg up in life. He wanted everyone to give everything they could to the community.” Goble was also an inspiration to his fellow volunteers. Part of LVC’s mission is to promote a life of simplicity, which was something Goble tried hard to embody. “We would take on different challenges in simplicity and he would be the one who would carry it out and model it for other people,” said Bradley. “We had a water challenge—Austin took bucket showers for a whole week.” Read Previous PLU students
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and share stories, that’s what I love.” As a PLU student, Markuson worked as a Resident Assistant for three years; learned about social justice and racism; and took advantage of Study Away opportunities, traveling to New Zealand and Ecuador on J-Term trips and studying for a semester in Botswana. “For me, studying away was such a great opportunity to understand the global community and other cultures and to put yourself in that place,” Markuson said. He also embraced PLU’s mission in his daily
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him, and he said I was doing it well,” Whatley said. “I never had anyone tell me my compositions were good before.” Read Previous Nursing Students With–and on–a Mission Read Next Three Free Events at PLU Celebrate the Legacy of Thor Heyerdahl COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the
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. The more support we have, the better it would be.” Other opportunities for students to get involved include the sock drive organized by the university’s Fellowship of Christian Athletes in support of the Tacoma Rescue Mission, and the PLU’s men’s basketball tournament on Nov. 25 and 26 in Olson Gymnasium. Tickets cost five dollars, and the money raised will support the Make-A-Wish Foundation. Another campus Thanksgiving activity is Operation Thanksgiving Dinner, hosted by the Association of the
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central to our institution’s mission of educating students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care – for other people, for their communities, and for the earth.” Read Previous PLU named Top 10 Peace Corps producer in the country Read Next Gov. Inslee visits campus for town hall meeting with PLU community COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS
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extremely proud,” said Michael Farnum, PLU’s director of military outreach. “When our ROTC cadre and staff are meeting with a prospective cadet and their family, they can confidently say to them that PLU is one of the top ROTC universities in the nation.” The MacArthur Award recognizes the ideals of “duty, honor and country,” and it is based on the achievement of the school’s commissioning mission, its cadets’ performance and standing on the command’s National Order of Merit List, and its cadet
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right opportunity they will thrive,” said Amber Ortiz-Diaz, Yakima Valley Community Foundation program director. “This partnership allows for Act Six Yakima to be able to extend our services to students who are interested in venturing out to receive their college education in hopes to return to Yakima to create positive change. I am so grateful that we have college partners who believe in this mission as well and believe that our next generation of leaders are here in the Yakima Valley.”Act Six
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years. “When the pandemic hit it shook up our team, and I wound up with a lot more responsibility very quickly,” she says. “Our team is just continually thinking of what else we can do, and growing, and trying to support the organization to the best of our abilities throughout this difficult time.” Butters always connects her work back to mission, values and service. She thinks often of an observation made frequently by her director – that recruiting great employees is the first step to providing
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monumental task that lies ahead. I want to be able to educate my community, make steps in creating a change, and be a part of it instead of doing the easy thing like dreading the continual destruction.” The Tacoma Tree Foundation is a nonprofit with a community-based approach to growing the urban forest. Their mission is to “educate, empower, and support community members in neighborhood-based greening.” “I enjoy going door to door asking if people want free trees. It’s really sweet to see someone’s
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counseling. By using ongoing evaluation in UCCs to assess clinical and implementation outcomes, the project will establish pathways for scaling up its implementation across UCCs in the United States. PLU’s funding award has been approved pending the completion of a business and programmatic review by PCORI staff and issuance of a formal award contract. PCORI is an independent, nonprofit organization authorized by Congress with a mission to fund patient-centered comparative clinical effectiveness research
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