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  • TACOMA, WASH. (May 6, 2016)- Kelly Hall couldn’t decide on a major when she first came to Pacific Lutheran University. “I didn’t know for sure what I wanted to do, and several fields I explored just didn’t fit right,” said Hall, a senior at PLU.…

    cultures. “I learned so much more on the canoe journey in just five days than I did through months of visiting and going to cultural events,” she said. The Samish tribe, originating from the San Juan Islands and Anacortes areas, has no official reservation, so scattered membership has been an issue. But Hall said she believes the geographic spread has allowed for connection in other ways. Hall will graduate this spring after finishing her classes within the language, religion, anthropology and history

  • Globally, Pacific Lutheran University alumni come face to face with the international conflicts that are defining the modern era. Some by accident, others by choice.

    mayor of a town, a brigade commander of an Iraqi army unit and a local police chief. All had their own areas of responsibility, he said. “But me as a 22-year-old lieutenant? Luckily, I had my political science degree and I have my training,” Calata said. “But how do you expect a 22-year-old kid to go into a place as old as the Bible and say ‘here, I’m going to fix your ancient problems.’” Dom Calata '08 Calata said he often thought back to the way Boice and his other ROTC instructors drew upon their

  • TACOMA, WASH. (March 23, 2016)- Imagine using bananas and a circuit board to create a piano. Absurd? Thanks to the maker movement and some creative minds, it isn’t. Pacific Lutheran University’s School of Education & Kinesiology is bringing that creative spirit to campus April 12…

    music or play computer games with makeshift controls. “Tinkering is terribly important,” McQuinn said. “All learning is built on prior understanding. That’s a 21st century skill.” Even more important, McQuinn added, is preparing students for the ever-changing world of technology. “We have no idea what tools they’re going to be using when they graduate from college. They haven’t been invented yet,” he said. “(Students) have to have those self-teaching skills. That’s a big part of why the maker

  • Teaching HILARY VO (2018) 10th Grade English Teacher and Mentor Summit Public Schools: Tamalpais High School, Richmond, CA Majors: English (Writing Concentration) and Classics Graduate Degree: Masters of Education, University of the Pacific (2019) How did your English major establish a foundation for your career path? If you ask any of the hundreds of students I have taught over the last five years what my “jam” is, they would all say: poetry. Or they would say some variation of reading

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 24, 2016)- Debbie Moderow’s future in Iditarod racing started in her family’s backyard with a retired sled dog named Salt. The 7-year-old Husky was the first member of a backyard sled dog team that was initially assembled so Moderow’s sons could have…

    context of climate change. “Fast into the Night” was Moderow’s thesis. She said she developed her voice and found her identity as a writer during her time at PLU. Moderow’s said her education set her on the path to literary success. “I’m a writer because of that program,” Moderow said. “I can call myself a writer – I’m a published author – because of that program.” Read Previous PLU Teaching Online program incorporates technology into learning, enhances brick-and-mortar experience Read Next PLU

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    inclusivity for their communities.” Love Without Limits was released in 2nd edition paperback and also on Audiobook with Jacqueline narrating in August, 2022. An active servant-leader in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Dr. Bussie spent the last twenty years teaching religion to undergraduates at ELCA colleges and serving as the founding Director of the Forum on Faith and Life at Concordia College. Every day she is amazed and grateful that gets to: 1) write and tell her story; 2) empower other

  • students; To encourage advanced students to be creators of mathematics by introducing rigorous mathematical reasoning and by expecting them to take the intellectual risk inherent in raising questions and formulating conjectures; To use and maintain a variety of appropriate technological tools throughout our curriculum; To work with students independently or collaboratively to help them make sense of and understand mathematics; To promote effective teaching through attendance at workshops and

  • Anthropology OverviewThe word anthropology comes from the Greek words anthropos, meaning “human”, and logos, which refers to doctrine, theory or science. Loosely defined, anthropology is the comprehensive study of humankind with an emphasis on culture. It is a holistic field which can touch on multiple specific disciplines, including humanistic approaches from history to literature the empirical or “natural” sciences from geology to physics, as well as behavioral studies such as sociology to

  • spent so much time in New Orleans, he now considers “The Big Easy” like a second home. Scott arrives at PLU from Ohio Northern University, a small liberal arts school in northwest Ohio, where he served as Director of University Writing. His teaching interests include: first-year writing, community and public literacy, professional writing with an emphasis on new media, and the application of rhetorical theory to visual and spatial artifacts. His research interests are focused on many of these same

  • University, 1991 Areas of Emphasis or Expertise Romance Linguistics Technology for Language Learning Linguistic Minorities Teacher Preparation Books Chapter in Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Education: Designing Networks That Transform Schools Chapters Leveraging Networks to Promote Organizational Learning through Professional Development (Harvard Education Press 2019) : View Book Chapter in L2 Grammatical Representation and Processing: Theory and Practice Chapters The Acquisition Environment