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  • DJS Fellowships provide an opportunity for students of any discipline to participate in furthering diversity, justice, and sustainability efforts on the PLU campus.

    Diversity Center at juliannh@plu.edu2022-2023 Fellowship Reports Indigenous ConnectionsSarah Lynn Seabreeze (PLU ’25) explored the PLU Archives and conducted current student focus groups to share a story of PLU’s engagement with Native Communities. FINAL REPORT  Sarah Lynn Seabreeze (PLU ’25) Hometown: Sun City, Arizona Major: Religion, English-Writing, minor in NAIS “I choose Indigenous Connections because, as some who is Native (Tlingit), I saw a severe lack in the relationship between the University

  • Where the classes are hard. And the issues? Harder. By Steve Hansen Josh Stromberg and Catherine Cheng aren’t together in any of the same classes. They’re not studying the same major. They’re not even in the same year. (He graduates next year; she a year…

    to high achieving students, of which there are a lot of expectations. And in that way, PLU’s program is no different than others. There is, however, one key difference. What makes PLU’s program so unique is its interdisciplinary and international focus. “This is really where PLU is on the cutting edge,” said Andrew Finstuen, assistant professor of religion and director of the International Honors Program. “A lot of honors programs are built on the older, traditional ‘Great Books’ model. But

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhD9U3jPRdE This past year a group of PLU students, as part of the award-winning MediaLab, dove into the topic of anti-Islamic sentiment in America. This is a first account shared by one of the project leaders JuliAnne Rose ’13. The topic took them across America…

    MediaLab presents the premiere of their documentary Beyond Burkas and Bombers: Anti-Muslim Sentiment in America at 7 p.m. April 11. The film will be streaming live at plu.edu/soac. More We wanted to help shed light on the moderate American Muslim voice to help counter the negative message by the extremist minority who have hijacked the religion of more than a billion followers worldwide. And to do so, you must also acknowledge the hurt and pain that has been inflicted over the years by this minority

  • Lutes See The World During J-Term Assistant Professor of Geosciences and Environmental Studies Claire Todd on an earlier research trip to Antarctica. Students and Professors Will Travel to and Study on All 7 Continents By Brenna Sussman ’15 PLU Marketing & Communications Student Worker TACOMA,…

    programs, Europe will host four groups of students this winter. With a German Studies class going to Germany, an Education class to Hungary, and Literature and Religion classes to Greece, students will explore all corners of the continent. In Europe, students will experience everything from student teaching in Budapest to home-stays in Berlin and weekend trips to the Greek islands of Santorini and Rhodes. North America J-Term Study Away programs don’t always mean students are leaving the country; they

  • TACOMA, WASH. (August 24, 2015)- This week, PLU introduced “Open to Interpretation,” a new podcast devoted to exploring the meanings and implications of words commonly used in the news, on social media and on college campuses. Hosted by Associate Professor of Communication Amy Young, each…

    media and on college campuses. Hosted by Associate Professor of Communication Amy Young, each episode will feature unexpected pairings of faculty guests representing all corners of scholarship. Through lively dialogue and debate, “Open to Interpretation” seeks to “remind us that rarely, if ever, can a word’s meaning be reduced to a single understanding.” The inaugural episode features a discussion of the word “advocacy” between Young, Associate Professor of Religion Kevin O’Brien and Clinical

  • Melanie Helle ’97 walked into a new job in 2020, during the first year of the Covid pandemic. “That was my first year — the pandemic, virtual learning. I was learning on the job,” says the director of special services at Chief Leschi Schools, operated…

    district I grew up in,” Helle says. After several years of teaching, she became a learning specialist, then an assistant principal and principal. She moved to Northwood Elementary, the school she attended as a child and where her son Dane also attended school. He’s now at PLU, majoring in communications and minoring in religion, with plans to graduate in December 2023. One lesson Helle took away from PLU — something she also hears about from her son — is the value of collaboration and working together

  • From: Office of the President Date: Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 8:24 AM Subject: PLU Strategic Plan Announcement To: All PLU Personnel   Dear colleagues, At University Fall Conference, I had the honor of highlighting the progress we have made during the challenges of the past two years.  I also had an opportunity to share with...

     Killen, PLU’s former Provost and longtime Professor of Religion, to serve in this capacity. I am pleased to announce that she has graciously agreed to rejoin our community for this purpose. Those of you who know Dr. Killen understand what a gift her presence on campus–and her dedicated attention to our project–will be. The project of preparing a draft strategic plan will be equal parts process and product. Directed by LRPC, Dr. Killen will begin the project by meeting with various campus stakeholders

  • “In 1993 Margie Witt, a young Air Force nurse, was chosen as the face of the Air Force’s “Cross into the Blue” recruitment campaign.

    want friendship, partnership, marriage? If so, why? With whom? How do I bear the pain of being able to see what really goes on in the world? What is my religion? Do I need one? What vision of the world is worth living for? Sacrificing for? Does what I consume help others, or does it hurt them? What are my questions? These are the questions that each Meant to Live speaker and all students explore together. Watch the calendar for upcoming Meant to Live events!Past Meant to Live Speakers 2018 Speakers

  • Following Dr. Pauline Shanks Kaurin’s recent publication in Newsweek, PLU’s Philosophy Department Chair sat down with me to discuss her article’s reception, the role of Twitter in philosophical discourse, and how philosophers of the modern day relate to the public. The article, originally published by…

    English Writing, with minors in Music and Philosophy. She wrote this article as part of her work in English 320: Intermediate Creative Nonfiction. Read Previous The Trail to Social Justice: Ultrarunning Meets Dark Green Religion Read Next Indivisible: English Faculty Members Join the Anti-Trump Resistance LATEST POSTS Gaps and Gifts May 26, 2022 Academic Animals: Making Nonhuman Creatures Matter in Universities May 26, 2022 Gendered Tongues: Issues of Gender in the Foreign Language Classroom May 26

  • Occasionally, we are fortunate enough to find things that are more exciting than what we are searching for. This is certainly true for Dr. Jen Jenkins, Associate Professor of German in the Languages and Literature Department at Pacific Lutheran University. Dr. Jenkins spent the 2016-2017…

    Geistesgeschichte and has two further articles currently under review with the Journal of Austrian Studies. Clayton Regehr is a senior English / Writing major, also completing minors in History and Holocaust and Genocide Studies. He completed this article as part of his work in English 320: Intermediate Creative Nonfiction. Read Next The Trail to Social Justice: Ultrarunning Meets Dark Green Religion LATEST POSTS Gaps and Gifts May 26, 2022 Academic Animals: Making Nonhuman Creatures Matter in Universities May