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staff, current students and alumni even write birthday cards, holiday cards and emails when a student shows success in activities. Admission staff make it their business to get to know each student. Marilyn Knutson Professors know their students, too. PLU has a smaller average class size than most area high schools — a student-faculty ratio of about 12 to 1. Coria-Islas, a double major in Hispanic studies and elementary school education who is also minoring in French, said his instructors can sense

class and “allows everyone to have consistent access to some form of a healing practice,” the Yakima native says, adding that “helping others is part of my healing.” (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Kate Fontana '08 +Enlarge Photo Change and activism marked Fontana’s time at PLU. She started college with ambitions of studying physics and astronomy and working for NASA, but classes in women’s and gender studies and religion – her eventual degree – won her heart and soul. Her campus résumé shows Fontana

just aren’t used to it,” Ferguson said. Admission staff, current students and alumni even write birthday cards, holiday cards and emails when a student shows success in activities. Admission staff make it their business to get to know each student. Marilyn Knutson Professors know their students, too. PLU has a smaller average class size than most area high schools — a student-faculty ratio of about 12 to 1. Coria-Islas, a double major in Hispanic studies and elementary school education who is also

study of Spanish, in part, to prove herself to her grandmother. “I wanted to prove to her that I was really Latina,” she said, with a laugh. Davidson, now an assistant professor of Hispanic studies at Pacific Lutheran University, says many of her college experiences — including traveling by herself to her mother’s home country Panama after graduation — were motivated by a desire to show her family she was authentically one of them. “For me, it was important in developing my identity to fully develop

Achievement AwardsArtistic Achievement Awardshttps://www.plu.edu/professional-studies/arts-scholarships/Rieke Leadership AwardEligibility: Students with a 3.00+ GPA and demonstrated leadership or active involvement in a multi-ethnic context. Requires full-time enrollment (12-17 credits per semester). Amount: Up to $2,000 per year, awarded for fall and spring semesters only. Comments or Conditions: Requires application; deadline March 22. Applications available through the Center for Diversity, Justice

Berguson, program director for the Telemark Gateway, says both programs look beyond Scandinavian heritage and focus on the “needed element” of studying contemporary Norway. “Our courses (in Scandinavian-area studies) and study away both strive to move students from an interest in heritage to an interest in how Norway approaches disciplines like business, alpine ecology and literature from their perspective,” she said. Norway NostalgiaRead what Sonja Ruud '12 has to say about her journey abroad in

century.Learn more about the “Jewish Life in Poland: Before, During and After the Holocaust” conference 2021 Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust EducationThe 2021 Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education at PLU is proud to announce that this year’s conference will be the first collaboration with the world’s leading Holocaust center, Yad Vashem, in Jerusalem. This monumental event, Holocaust Distortion and Denial, will feature the foremost experts in Holocaust studies, Dr. Yehuda Bauer and Dr