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Students of Color at PLU: Belonging and Persistence Posted by: Lace M. Smith / September 11, 2015 Image: Outdoor class at PLU on Monday, April 20, 2015. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) September 11, 2015 Following PLU’s annual University Conference kick-off, our faculty members attended a number of breakout sessions, one of which was led by Teresa Ciabattari, chair of Women’s and Gender Studies and associate professor of Sociology. Here, Dr. Ciabattari helps us understand what we can do to help

her first class students would stream out of her lecture, smiles plastered on their faces, raving about the new faculty member. It was during the first weeks of her undergraduate program at University of Arizona, a conservatory program strictly focused on classical theatre, that she decided she wanted to be a professor. “That was how extreme the impact was that those professors had on me,” Wallace says. “They changed my whole world in a matter of weeks and all I have wanted to do since then was

reverent care.” Upon noticing this connection, Professor O’Brien applied for and received a Kelmer-Roe grant, with student Collin Ray, to study the connections that she saw between ultrarunning, Dark Green Religion, and concepts like gender, race and class.   Professor O’Brien believes the activity of ultrarunning, the combination of testing the body and returning to outdoors to do it, speaks to a spiritual relationship between runners and nature. “You’re returning to a more primal behavior where

Q&A with RHA president Hezekiah Goodwin ’22 Posted by: vcraker / November 18, 2021 November 18, 2021 By By Zach Powers '10Director of Marketing and Communications The PLU Residence Hall Association, or RHA, brings students together for social events, community forums, and to advocate for residence hall-related issues. RHA president Hezekiah Goodwin ’22 thinks of his role in building a vibrant student community as a campus vocation. We met with him on the first day of class to discuss the

their cameras, they could still practice the fundamentals used in rehearsals and music-making. By spring of 2021, Brizuela’s school entered a hybrid schedule, so students are now in music class one day per week, in person. Due to guidelines around air-exchange rates, the choirs moved into the performing arts center where students can spread out, and choir participants wear “singer masks,” which look a bit like a duck’s bill.Work tends to be simpler and focused on small groups—even two or three

Where’s my Sakai course? Posted by: Jenna S / January 7, 2013 January 7, 2013 After you’ve logged into Sakai, your Sakai courses will be listed as tabs across the top of the Sakai window. If you are enrolled in more courses than fit across the page, the right-most tab will be called ‘My Active Sites’. This tab contains all your courses listed by semester. Note that not all PLU courses have corresponding Sakai sites. It may take as long as 24 hours after you register for a class before your

community. Mortvedt Library displays these photos in the lobby every Spring to promote study away and to give students an opportunity to have their work viewed by a large audience. Featured image: “The gold metal in geology goes to . . .” by Isabel LaRue (class of 2020) received first place in the Lutes Away category. LaRue writes, “Exploring Deadhorse State Park gave us a chance to observe geological layers all around us, and realize just how grand the world that we are studying really is.” Location

Two New Doctors in the House Posted by: Julie Winters / April 25, 2019 April 25, 2019 Congratulations to Dr. Christina Pepin and Dr. Kelsey Hirsch!Dr. Pepin defended her doctoral dissertation titled “Prevalence and Use of High-Fidelity Simulation in Family Nurse Practitioner Programs”. Dr Pepin currently teaches Professional Foundations and provides leadership for our students in their final semester of the program through their capstone class and clinical. She also teaches the Care & Outcomes

programs, students and staff on campus put an emphasis on service and care,” she says. “That’s what drew me to PLU, what kept met at PLU and what has sustained me.” At PLU, she majored in both communications and Hispanic studies. “I took my first Spanish language class in 10th grade, and I fell in love with the language from the start,” she says. Following graduation from PLU, she earned a master’s degree in translation from Kent State University in Ohio, and subsequently returned to PLU’s Hispanic

authors like Jane Austen and Oscar Wilde. Einan worked with Associate Professor of English Adela Ramos on projects about books by Jane Austen. Einan and Ramos worked on online posts reviewing Jane Austen themed adaptations, merchandise, games and spin-off books. Einan recently completed her capstone about female mobility in Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice.” Ramos remembers meeting Einan for the first time in her Jane Austen Communities class. “She was sitting in the front row, pen in hand, notebook out