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Intersections: Fall Edition Features PLU Faculty Members Posted by: hassonja / October 26, 2018 October 26, 2018 Cover art by Sheila Agee Intersections, Number 48, Fall 2018 Intersections is a publication by and largely for the academic communities of the twenty-seven institutions that comprise the Network of ELCA Colleges and Universities (NECU). Each issue reflects on the intersection of faith, learning, and teaching within Lutheran higher education. It is published by the NECU, and has its
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help us understand why Ferguson should not have been a surprise. More importantly, the chastening wisdom and powerful courage of religious faith and righteous feminists light the fires of our moral imagination so we can engage the most important question: where do we go from here?Speaker Bio:Jennifer Harvey is Professor of Religion at Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. Her teaching, writing and speaking focus on encounters of religion and ethics with race, gender, activism, politics
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Building Community: A PLU Special Education Major Discovers the Beauty of Returning to His Childhood School District Gavin Knapp ’23 reflects on Fife Public Schools with a new lens, now student teaching with one of his former educators. Gavin Knapp discovered his vocation for special education in an unusual way – volunteering with unified sports in high school. Although his former high… March 19, 2023 Alumni, Internships, Career
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to know faculty scholarship as it happens on twitter and in the archives of Yale, and read about a student-faculty collaboration focused on ultrarunning and religion. You will read about the political work of some of our English faculty and their families, and you will learn from a conversation about teaching between two of our Language instructors. Finally, you can read my update on our Classics program. A new aspect of Prism this year is that our students have taken a larger role in producing
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Fees Check online at www.plu.edu under Current Students, Academics, Calendar & Schedules, Interactive Schedule (https://bss.plu.edu/pap/hxskschd.P_PLUSchedule) to view additional course fees. Student Resource and Activity Fee Offers financial support for student-initiated activities through ASPLU that adds to the extracurricular life at PLU. This fee can not be waived. The fee is $20 per semester for undergraduate students. Technology Fee The Technology Fee helps provide all students access to
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that’s the value and unique thing that has made it all it is,” Keim said. “Buildings and bricks don’t talk to you. It’s the human resource that is the best element that PLU has to offer. It’s the people here. It’s the heart they have for others.” McAdams, on the job since late February, can already see the heart Keim has for PLU and its student athletes. While the school conducted its search for a permanent hire, Keim served as interim coach, sustaining PLU’s recruiting efforts and providing a degree
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that you discover when you’re here, and that’s the value and unique thing that has made it all it is,” Keim said. “Buildings and bricks don’t talk to you. It’s the human resource that is the best element that PLU has to offer. It’s the people here. It’s the heart they have for others.” McAdams, on the job since late February, can already see the heart Keim has for PLU and its student athletes. While the school conducted its search for a permanent hire, Keim served as interim coach, sustaining PLU’s
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recording for a CHEM 115 course, created by Chemistry Professor Adam Glass. Communication Recordings When teaching at a distance, recordings are also useful for communicating with students. Video and audio recordings contain visual and auditory communication cues, which can foster a more personal connection and reduce the feeling of distance. Recordings can be substituted for various text-based communications including emails and announcements. It is fine to mix text with audio or video if different
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Finding a special place at PLU Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / April 21, 2010 April 21, 2010 By David Robbins It all started so simply, yet signs were there. In the spring and summer of 1969, I was looking for my first college teaching job as I completed my graduate music degree at the University of Michigan. Like so many seeking their first real job, I had cast a wide net, applying for any and all positions that vaguely aligned with my interests, training and abilities. One such position was at a
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Barber ’02 said she was bit by the travel bug soon after she graduated, and found herself in Liberia teaching nursing at Cuttington University in Gbarnga. She came to a country that had been ravaged by 14 years of brutal civil war. Some of the soldiers of that war were 12-year old boys, she noted. “Imagine the destruction you can get when you give a 12-year-old boy a gun and rocket launcher, as well as drugging him to make sure he is loyal to you,” she said. The country suffers from 85 percent
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