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Think faster, work harder, feel more deeply Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / November 21, 2010 Image: PLU Associate Professor of Music, Violin, Svend Ronning,in his office. November 21, 2010 By Barbara Clements Looking back, Svend Rønning ’89 can’t remember when music wasn’t  part of his life. His mother was a piano teacher; his grandfather played the violin. In fact, he still occasionally uses a bow that his grandfather bought from a Sears and Roebuck catalogue in the 1920s. “Actually, it still

, teacher and speaker with years of research experience. Dr. Chávez specializes in American government, public policy, Latino politics, and race and politics. Her work centers on the political, civic, and professional experiences of Latinos in American society and her research has earned an American Political Science Association Best Book Award in Latino Politics twice. Dr. Chávez has also been selected for the Humanities Washington Speakers Bureau Program twice, including for the current 2024-2025

of security and community building experience, including 10 on college campuses, to his new role at PLU,” said PLU Vice President for Student Life Joanna Royce-Davis. “He has an established track record of partnering with students, staff and faculty members; building collaborative relationships with off-campus partners and neighbors; and leading a campus safety department that emphasizes care for the community.”An unarmed and unsworn department, PLU’s Department of Campus Safety provides 24/7/365

processing. I was lucky enough in both undergrad and grad school to have mentoring relationships that were significant and that I keep to this day. It was a lifestyle that I learned. Learning how to be a teacher not only through specific instruction and words, but just spending time with them and respecting who they were. One thing I won't forget: “more tools equals more possibilities.” The teacher who told me that was talking about regular tools: hammers, saws, welders, you name it. But what I realized

Lutheran University as interim dean of the School of Education & Kinesiology. Bergeson has extensive experience in state education, having served as Washington state superintendent of public instruction from 1997 to 2009, and as executive director of the Washington Commission on Student Learning from 1993 to 1996.  Bergeson was most recently an adjunct faculty member at the University of Washington Tacoma, where she taught a course in Human Resources in Educational Institutions to students pursuing