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thing about apartheid, Tutu said after a moment’s thought that eventually, one begins to believe the philosophy. “It makes one doubt that you are a child of God…after you’re subjected to this treatment, it begins to work (in your brain) and you begin to think ‘Maybe they are right,’” Tutu said. At that same gathering last Tuesday, students from PLU and local high schools also talked about Youth Against Violence gatherings, where PLU students led discussions with high school youth about their lives
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such agencies to U.S. schools are seated in lecture halls and spoken to en masse. The problem with this, Meyer said, is that it disallows the visiting students, many of whom are only children with strong familial ties, a real feel for the type of students they could end up with at college. At the event, the students faced each other in pairs, communicating in English. “The questions were not too hard, and the Chinese high-school students spoke pretty good English,” Meyer said. “When they didn’t
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Berkeley, Calif., later in 2009. Neither these collaborations nor the comparative nature of the questions we are asking together would have been possible without “going global.” A comparative approach to the history of adoption has also led to my revising some of the fundamental research questions swirling about adoption reform in the United States – in particular, the highly contentious issue of whether allowing adopted adults access to their adoption records, which are sealed in most states, would
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commitment to international studies. In 2009, PLU became the first university ever to have students studying simultaneously on all seven continents. Summer 2015 will mark the next step in PLU’s efforts to diversify the entry points into its classrooms. The university will offer its first online courses. This summer’s online courses will be offered for just a quarter of the cost per-credit of traditional school year courses. “Our focus is on students, and providing a high-quality and personalized learning
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science courses through the Running Start program while he was a student at Mount Tahoma High School in Tacoma. As part of Running Start, Kop attended Tacoma Community College, where he majored in astronomy and took courses that interested him. But by the time he got to PLU, as a transfer junior, Kop was ready to take on a challenging schedule as an upper division physics major. He knew how to succeed in college, since he’d taken prerequisite classes and was aware of the difficulty of a STEM-focused
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-based medical school. The college was created to expand medical education and health care access in communities across the state. The college offers degree and certificate programs in medicine, nutrition and exercise physiology, speech and hearing sciences, health administration and leadership, and medical ethics. Additionally, WSU has three graduate medical education residency programs — internal medicine, pediatric medicine, and family medicine. In addition, the college is home to groundbreaking
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also a complex topic—overlapping with many other important subjects including education, healthcare and career. Lucas also points out that hair discrimination doesn’t just affect women. School and sports policies tend to affect boys more than girls, she says. She shares an example from 2018, when a Black varsity high school wrestler, Andrew Johnson, was forced to cut his dreadlocks or forfeit a match. His dreadlocks didn’t comply with state rules around hair being in a “natural state,” the referee
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to be out in their careers and support diversity in the STEM workforce Award Guidelines: Scholarship awards will be paid in the Fall semester/quarter only. Scholarship availability depends on funding, and might not be offered every year. Some years will offer more scholarships than other years All awards must be used in support of recipient’s education or research. Eligibility: Successful completion of a minimum of two years of post-high school education at an accredited U.S. college or
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and two high schools, Yaden said — and one of the certificated Tacoma teachers is a coach in PLU’s program this year. Additionally, the Chinese language coach is a graduate of PLU’s STARTALK program. “There’s built-in leadership,” Yaden said. STARTALK is offered through PLU’s School of Education. The curriculum is designated for teaching so-called “critical languages,” non-Western European languages that are taught less frequently but are critical for federal government purposes, such as national
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world.”Early on, Mosa struggled at Foss High School in Tacoma and didn’t think college would be an option for him, so he set his sights on applying to be a seaman with the coast guard. Even with this plan, Mosa applied for college scholarships, at the encouragement of his high school counselors. Days before he enlisted into the Marines, Mosa learned he was the recipient of an Act Six Scholarship, a leadership program that connects local students with faith- and social justice-based colleges to equip
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