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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

in my office at a mental-health center, in their homes and in the community. I’m on a unique team that services adults with severe and persistent mental-health illnesses as well as a substance-abuse diagnosis. My time is split between helping clients work on their symptoms and connecting them to resources to help aid in their recovery. How did studying Psychology at PLU help prepare you for your graduate studies and your current career? Studying Psychology helped form my clinical background prior

. Beyond these interpersonal relationships, which I cherish to this day and intend to maintain for years to come, I also gained knowledge and skills through my coursework that have proven useful to me in later academic endeavors. While I was in Norway, I conducted an independent field research project on Norwegian approaches to development aid, which involved personal interviews with several prominent scholars and practitioners. Now, in my graduate studies in the anthropology and sociology of

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

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

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graduation. “That’s building the lifelong learning process,” Seavor said. “We couldn’t do it without our practice partners.” Seavor says the entry-level master’s program is intense: within 15 months students complete the equivalent of a rigorous undergraduate nursing education, and are eligible to sit for the national licensure exam; then, for the second half of the program, the registered nurses begin their graduate-level studies. It’s not lost on Larsen how far he’s come since his 46-year-old self

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