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Development of the Multilingual Recruiting Project, including supplemental admissions and financial aid materials and programs that will facilitate non-English-speaking parents to understand and support their student’s attendance at PLU.
Development of the Multilingual Recruiting Project, including supplemental admissions and financial aid materials and programs that will facilitate non-English-speaking parents to understand and support their student’s attendance at PLU.
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“This residency -- compressed time -- has provided me with time, with time out of time, that has allowed me to immerse myself in language, in my contemporaries, in the writing world.”
in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Classes are also offered on issues of pedagogy, and how to build and maintain a writing practice and community beyond the MFA. Each participant is free to create their own menu of classes during the residency, regardless of the participant’s primary genre. A participant who is primarily a poet, for example, may opt to take classes in nonfiction, while a participant involved with writing a memoir project may choose to take classes in fiction. During the
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The success of the Wild Hope Center for Vocation is due, in large part, to the work of faculty mentors who engage students with questions of meaning and purpose—in the classroom, in casual
meaningful living, and to discuss ways to mentor students to live into the PLU mission. Each seminar group will meet to study and discuss a variety of matters vital to their profession as faculty at PLU. They will discuss some important historical materials and debates about vocation, various contemporary issues in pedagogy and higher education, and related controversies in contemporary society and academic disciplines. These discussions will intersect with consideration of PLU’s mission and individual
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The new PLU Fixed Tuition Guarantee ensures tuition for the 2022–23 incoming class of first-year and transfer students will remain the same throughout their undergraduate years, adding to the list
break from the conventional higher ed practice of passing-on the rising cost of tuition to returning students and families, which can range from $10,000 to $12,000 over the course of four years. This guarantee disrupts the general practice of higher education institutions in the U.S., especially private universities, which routinely announce three to five percent tuition increases each spring. Will the fixed tuition guarantee apply to graduate programs?No. This fixed tuition guarantee applies only
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David Ward is a practicing therapist who says the origins of his vocation go all the way back to his childhood home. “I grew up in a family where I benefited from strong family ties, and I saw the impact of imperfect but strong relationships,”…
addressing the needs of both our PLU community and the wider community through the programs that we’re providing, the impact our students can have while still students, and then of course the impact of our alumni who graduate and go into the community and serve. PLU College of Health ProfessionsThe College of Health Professions is home to the School of Nursing and Departments of Kinesiology, Marriage & Family Therapy, and Social Work. Program offerings include undergraduate and graduate degrees, as well
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Successful programs are not born, but carefully crafted, thought out, and revised along the way. If your group is going to be successful at recruitment and outreach, good programming is a necessity.
Four Step ProcessSuccessful programs are not born, but carefully crafted, thought out, and revised along the way. If your group is going to be successful at recruitment and outreach, good programming is a necessity. The key to successful programming involves four basic steps: development, planning and logistics, promotion and follow up. The more your group follows these steps, over the years, the more your groups programs will be sustainable and long-lasting. Programming Programming
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Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies | College of Liberal Studies | dowland@plu.edu | 253-535-8125 | Seth Dowland teaches courses in PLU’s International Honors, First-Year Experience, Religion, and Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies programs.
Experience, Religion, and Gender, Sexuality, and Race Studies programs. His classes offer interdisciplinary perspectives on American religions, with particular emphasis on the ways religion interacts with gender, race, politics, and violence. His research focuses on the intersection of religion, gender, and American politics in the twentieth century. His book, “Family Values and the Rise of the Christian Right”, was published in 2015 by the University of Pennsylvania Press. He is currently working on a
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AVP for Student Life Strategic Initiatives and Assessment | Wild Hope Center for Vocation | jes.takla@plu.edu | 253-535-7597 | Jes joined the Residential Life Staff as the Director of Residential Programs in 2013.
, Spokane, WA (November 2013) Professional Memberships/Organizations NASPA | Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education , (2008 - Present) ACPA| American College Personnel Association , (2006 - Present) Biography Jes joined the Residential Life Staff as the Director of Residential Programs in 2013. She grew up in a Navy family and has lived many places, including Virginia, Hawaii, Florida, Spain, Chicago, Ohio and the Pacific Northwest. Jes is excited to be at PLU because she loves working with
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PLU is among the most internationally active schools in the nation, offering programs that will help students: Be aware of their own place and culture in the world, and understand the interrelation
Globally-Focused UniversityGlobal and intercultural education is one of the primary focal points of the academic program at Pacific Lutheran University.PLU is among the most internationally active schools in the nation, offering programs that will help students: Be aware of their own place and culture in the world, and understand the interrelation of socio-political, economic, scientific, cultural, religious, and linguistic facets of human life Be sensitive to the historical, multinational
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TACOMA, WASH. (March. 19, 2020) — Switching a campus-based curriculum to a distance-learning model mid-semester in the face of a pandemic is no easy feat. Luckily, PLU professor of music Gregory Youtz and his faculty peers have proved to be up for the challenge. Under…
familiar or comfortable to them. PLU: You’re one of the university’s faculty members who has completed the PLU Teaching Online (PLUTO) and Blended Learning programs. How has that training set you up for success in this unique situation we’re facing? Youtz: Because of the PLUTO experience and my development of blended and online learning courses over the last five years, my Sakai websites are quite robust and serve me very well during this time. I am used to delivering content remotely and “flipping
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