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We are Pacific Lutheran University. Inquiry. Service. Leadership. Care. PLU seeks to educate students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care – for other people, for their
health care, technology, the performing arts, and education. Allan Belton, President Pacific Lutheran University My PLU education taught me to think critically, challenge the status quo, and advocate for my community. PLU was also where I found my passion for both the outdoors and environmental advocacy. I fell in love with Puget Sound and Mount Rainier and enjoyed exploring both...I loved my time at PLU. Shannon Murphy ‘07, President Washington Conservation Voters PLU is a caring community that
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2000. An active Lute, Brewer engaged in a variety of LGBTQ advocacy work on Pacific Lutheran University’s campus through Harmony, known today as Queer Ally Student Union. Now, Brewer is ushering in the next era of leadership at the Rainbow Center as interim director. She’s running the organization until a new leader is appointed this spring. The center sits on Pacific Avenue in downtown Tacoma, distinguished by the rainbow flag in the window. The organization supports the local LGBTQ community by
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The PLU Anthropology Department is dedicated to understanding the nature and variety of all humanity. Humankind has great cultural diversity, significant biological uniformity and an undeniable
“educate for lives of service” by offering courses that focus on the use and usefulness of our skills and knowledge. We infuse all our courses with intercultural skills that we encourage students to apply in a wide range of endeavors. Anthropology, more than any other program, seeks to heighten awareness of nature and strengths of a culturally plural society and a global community. Teaching from the MissionThe core lessons in recognizing ethnocentrism and using the concept of cultural relativity to
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TACOMA, Wash. (Sept. 2, 2015) — Ordal Hall went under the knife for some major cosmetic surgery this summer. And now, as students arrive on campus this week, it is ready to take off its wrappings and show its new self. A ribbon-cutting will be…
traditional fixtures; contactless entry into dorm rooms—no more room keys! new furniture for lounges and study rooms; fully-renovated bathrooms with toe-warming heated floors and increased privacy; and brand-new kitchens with open floor plans on second and third floors. A timeline of the summer remodel is available here. Ordal Hall also will include the First in the Family Community, a wing that aspires to assist first-generation students in their transition from high school to college. The First in the
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TACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 14, 2016)- Pacific Lutheran University will host a celebration of life for Tom Pfeifle on Sept. 22 in Lagerquist Concert Hall at 6 p.m. Pfeifle died Aug. 29, just before he planned to return to PLU for his sophomore year. Following the…
Concert Hall at 6 p.m.Pfeifle died Aug. 29, just before he planned to return to PLU for his sophomore year. Following the news, President Thomas W. Krise asked the entire Lute community to join him in remembering Pfeifle’s vigor, spontaneity, leadership and hopes for the future. The celebration of life next week will provide an outlet for all Lutes to remember those qualities and more. The ceremony is one of many ways the campus community is honoring Pfeifle, who was an active member of Outdoor
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Tacoma, May 16, 2021 This week we interviewed Mariken Lund , a PLU junior and Innovation Studies minor who recently started her own sustainable clothing business in Norway. Mariken is an international student who normally studies Business and other subjects on the PLU campus. However,…
through two courses in the Innovation Studies program with Professor Michael Halvorson. Despite learning online, the lessons stuck. “The goal of Innovation Studies is to help us be creative and multiply our impact through teaming and social initiatives. I was hooked!” Lund continued to experiment with clothing design and her friends began to notice. During Winter 2020, she decided to advertise some of her hand-made products to people in the Oslo area. The response was strong enough that she launched
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relay them so people could grasp what these people go through every day because they don’t know how to show it.” Packard examined each individual’s emotional labor — the process of managing emotions to satisfy the requirements of a job — by asking questions from four categories: background and demographics, becoming a first responder, emotions at work and emotion management. “As we have all grown up in today’s society, we have all learned and been socialized to think that first responders are the
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TACOMA, WASH. (March 17, 2016)- Joshua Cushman ’08 stood in front of a crowd at the Wang Center Symposium last month and recalled his childhood in which nobody asked him about his future. The Tacoma native was the product of a broken home, plagued by…
young men to experience leadership in meaningful ways,” Cushman said. “Their voices, concerns and stories (should) be shared and validated by the community.” Cushman says that cultural responsiveness is vital. Becoming culturally responsive, however, is a multi-step process that Cushman says “does not happen overnight.” People must check their belief systems and question the motives behind their own personal opinions and convictions. Next, they must validate and affirm through highlighting positive
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