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characterizes too many contemporary visions of higher education. When education is conceived in terms of the instrumental reason of a market-driven world, students become consumers, acquiring discrete packets of knowledge or skills. Education is reduced to training. Higher education becomes a Flatland where costs are conceived in terms of time, inconvenience, and money, but where the student as person —because in a two-dimensional world there are no persons— remains untouched. Ironically, the same kind of

be fun to co-teach together and engage students to ask really big questions about race, gender and sexuality through something we consume and enjoy."- Jennifer Smith Students will be studying Beyoncé based around her 2016 visual album “Lemonade.” The first half of the course will be her work pre-Lemonade, and then the rest of the course will be solely focused on the album. The course uses Patricia Hill Collins’ text Black Feminist Thought, with additional readings written only by women of color

rewarding is bringing his students alongside and sharing with them the value of hard work, hands-on learning and timely scholarship. “One of my goals at PLU is to promote early engagement of undergraduate students – especially for women and underrepresented students – in machine learning, bioinformatics, and the data science field,” he says. “I want to inspire students to pursue advanced STEM education and research careers.”  Cao explains: “Not only is research interesting for the students, I think it’s

. “Our orders come mostly from women in Norway now,” Mariken explained. “However, I’ve had several good conversations with sustainable manufacturers in Sweden, and if we chose to make our products there, we will stick to our core  principles.” “Our concept is to create unique, custom-made pieces in classic designs that won’t go out of style quickly. We also practice Green Shipping and are inclusive in all respects. Every size, gender, age, ethnicity, and so on are welcome. We are happy to do custom

scathed by something,” she said. “Come on in.” Read Previous PLU’s Scandinavian Cultural Center selected for Registrars to the Rescue service project Read Next PLU master’s graduate earns Women of Influence Award after pivoting from professional soccer to finance COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Caitlyn Babcock ’25 wins first place in 2024 Angela Meade Vocal

school because there was no need for her to attend anymore. It is not difficult to read about the challenges facing Indians today: a stagnant literacy rate, deficient infrastructure, environmental degradation, poor sanitation, malnourishment, repression of its women and a domineering caste system. It is a much more tangible reality when you are sitting and talking to one of the families where such challenges apply. I cannot fairly describe the humility I often felt talking with my neighbor’s daughter

Fellowship Founded in the mid-19th century, the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) grew rapidly in the early decades of the 20th century. During this period, the YMCA built facilities and offered programs that would develop the “mind, body and spirit” of young men—most of them white and middle-class. During the 1940s and 1950s, the YMCA increasingly served women, children, nonwhites and non-Christians. This broadening of scope demonstrated the YMCA’s adaptability and ultimately led to the 2010

though you aren’t that genre’s biggest fan. But walking to NPCC after Night of Musical Theater with some friends, you will admit that you enjoyed the performance, and you will be proud of your incredibly talented peers. Believe it or not, you will be up on that stage for three nights in The Vagina Monologues. You will feel a kind of solidarity with your female co-stars that comes from knowing you are helping to empower women. Right below the rose window at the top of Eastvold are a few lucky

this country, but also because that had never occurred to her, and she felt herself to be a sensitive, forward-looking, compassionate person. Our campus race chats have yielded many such stories.  Black women and men have remarked on how often white people will touch their hair or skin.  Or how often police cars slow down whenever they pass by them.  Or even how emotionally draining it is for faculty of color to be the de facto advisors for virtually every student of color on campus—because they

Pastor Trocme knew about many of the actions since he was both the spiritual head of the village and the one who acted as informal coordinator, but it would be easy to over state the influence of the leaders in the village. This was a struggle carried out in the kitchens of the farmhouses in and around Le Chambon, involving most of the village (men, women and children alike) but individuals made decisions and acted largely on their own and according to their own consciences.5 Magda and André Trocmé