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  • to better understand what sorts of strategies immigrants living on the US/Mexico border have developed to determine their own circumstances, often in the context of injustice, social inequality, geographical displacement, and human rights violations. Our program also included visits with Kate Pritchard (PLU ’14) and Brian Erickson (PLU ’09), two PLU Hispanic Studies alumni who are currently working on supporting and advocating for immigrant communities on the US/Mexico Border. Border Patrol

  • about this Lute poet who acquired more than a master’s during her MFA studies. Read More MBA to CFO Anna Loomis ’14 spent the past 15 years with MultiCare, the largest community-based, locally governed health system in Washington state. She wore many hats, culminating in her role as CFO the last four years of her tenure. Read about her decision to enter PLU’s MBA program and the skills she gained en route to senior leadership. Read More 'Building Humans' Teaching can be the toughest job you’ll ever

  • power of global travel to inform and illuminate as we make our way in a troubled world. Read More Power Paddle to Puyallup Kelly Hall ’16 found a new connection to her native Samish tribal culture through her studies at PLU, then gave voice to her people as part of the revival of this traditional Northwest canoe journey. Read More Strong Link of Three People remember Panago Horton ’12 for his quiet leadership, devotion to family and passion for access to education for marginalized students. His

  • possibility of later being accepted to the program. Priority will be given to applicants: Who submit strong applications (see below) Who haven’t studied away for a semester before For Semester rather than full Academic Year Whose academic interests align with the program’s academic themes and opportunities With Major/Minor that requires study away (Global Studies) Of language immersion programs For Gateway over Featured and Approved Semester programs Qualities demonstrated by strong applicants: Academic

  • Kapowsin High School’s Trumpet Coach. Autumn is insane for doing all of this but couldn’t love it more!  She loves the process and can’t wait for the outcome of all her hard work! Jess Mason Jess Mason is a third year Music Performance and Music Education major, minoring in Hispanic Studies.  They are from Portland, Oregon.  They have been playing trumpet for 9 years.  They’re in the Wind Ensemble and Symphony Orchestra. This fall they are studying away in Oaxaca, Mexico. Connor Kaczkowski My name is

  • Chile’s school of architecture, urban studies, and geography. Through interviewing thirteen students and a professor, I found that in addition to mobilizing to universalize access to education by redefining it as a social right, students have appropriated their campuses as a way of questioning the production of knowledge. Inspired by Paulo Freire, students are asking what do we learn, how, and why? They desire to build a critical pedagogy that converts education from a method of reproducing the status

  • , even after they’ve been exposed to Christianity for decades, they [the Sámi] still believe in the pagan gods and spirits, so it’s that lasting belief that really sets the missionaries off.” Professor Brown has returned “back home” to PLU after having spent five years at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has one year left on his dissertation in Germanic studies. Professor Brown graduated from PLU in 2010 where he earned a major in German and a minor in Norwegian. He met his wife at PLU

  • Learning and Teaching with Professor Xi Zhu Posted by: hoskinsk / May 7, 2020 Image: Xi Zhu, Visiting Instructor of Chinese May 7, 2020 By John Evanishyn '21Environmental Studies & English MajorYou may have heard professors say that they still feel like students, learning every day. But Visiting Instructor of Chinese Xi Zhu is a true embodiment of this idea.You may have heard professors say that they still feel like students, learning every day. But Visiting Instructor of Chinese Xi Zhu is a

  • Step 3This is a critical component of the application. Informed consent is necessary for all research studies (even exempt research). The goal of informed consent is to make sure research participants are treated with dignity and respect and they understand: what they will be asked to do any risks and/or benefits involved they can choose not to answer any questions they always have the right to decline or withdraw from any study without consequence how their data will be used and protected

  • national security interests of the United States. The region includes China, which is rapidly assuming prominence on the global stage. Rare are the days that go by without at least one news story on China. Given PLU’s Chinese language studies, its China summer Service Learning program, as well as other international programs sponsored by the Wang center, I thought I would devote a few minutes to this most fascinating country. For the past 20 years, China’s GDP has grown by an average of 9.0% per year