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people about it, they are often surprised. Maybe it isn’t so surprising given what we learned at PLU — the values of a liberal arts education: going to small classes, and knowing our professors. We also learned a lot playing basketball on a team that traveled long hours on buses, playing in a cracker box gym, receiving five dollars for meal money each day, warming up before games to gospel music played on an old pipe organ. These experiences teach you something no class really can: teamwork
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interest, I am struck by the general lack of concern for animals in universities. It seems to me that nonhuman animals have not fared well in American higher education. Photo taken during a J-term course in Uruguay in 2014 by Mariann Funkhouser (‘16) When I refer to academic animals, I am not referring directly to animal experimentation in universities, though this is a related issue. Rather, I refer to the ways academics are likely to conceptualize nonhuman animals—the animals we construct, the animal
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253.535.7687 www.plu.edu/languages/ lang@plu.edu Ami Shah, Ph.D., Chair Jump to...Global and Cultural StudiesThe Department of Global and Cultural Studies is a dynamic curricular hub for global education made up of the following programs: Chinese and Chinese Studies, French and Francophone Studies, Global Studies, and Hispanic and Latino Studies. Aligned with PLU’s commitment to global education broadly speaking, both on campus and through study away, our courses promote global awareness and
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October 12, 2007Patricia L. Linn, Ph.D."Learning That Lasts a Lifetime: A Mixed-Method Study of Learning in Cooperative Education"Antioch University, Seattle September 14, 2007Sara Hodges, Ph.D."The Me in Understanding You: Self-ish Empathy"University of Oregon
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education) to improve knowledge in the areas of health, healthcare, dental care, or biomedical investigation. The award is $25 and a certificate. RecipientSchoolProjectGrade Nirbhuy ArunChildren's Garden Montessori Scooty Bubble Blower- A Device to Calm Down Autistic Kids 1 Eliana MorganChambersEcholocation and Noise2 Suhaas MekaCentennialGiga Hurtz!3 Smriti SureshCentennialRethink Sugary Drinks3 Sriya EmaniCentennialGreasy Potato Chips3 Julia Elkins TeamPioneerRobotic Hand6 Zoey Baze
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Welcome to the PLU Interactive Equivalency Guide. With this tool you can explore how classes from other colleges and universities transfer to PLU. Whether you’re thinking about applying to PLU or you’re a current student, this guide can help you plan for meeting General Education elements and specific major or minor requirements. We’re frequently adding new schools and classes, so be sure to check back if what you’re looking for is not here. It doesn’t mean a particular class can’t be
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(room 214) Required (All)WELCOME TO PLU: REQUIRED: At this opening session for New Student Orientation, learn what it means to join the Lute Community: Diversity, Justice, & Sustainability (DJS), Vocation, and Lutheran Higher Education. 1:00 PM-2:15PMOlson Gym Required (All) LUTE Group Time, First PLUS 100 Class Session & New Student Group Picture REQUIRED: Meet your LUTE Guide & Group2:15PM-4:00PM Meet your LUTE Guide on Foss Field Throughout LUTE Welcome, find your individual LUTE Group meeting
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Students only Lunch is provided! 12:00PM-12:45PMAUC Regency Room, 203 Required (All)WELCOME TO PLU: REQUIRED: At this opening session for New Student Orientation, learn what it means to join the Lute Community: Diversity, Justice, & Sustainability (DJS), Vocation, and Lutheran Higher Education. 1:00 PM-2:15PMOlson Gym Required (All) LUTE Group Time & New Student Group Picture REQUIRED: Meet your LUTE Guide & Group2:15PM-4:00PM Meet your LUTE Guide on Foss Field Throughout LUTE Welcome, find your
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have before. As for herself, Cory says the trip left her with a sense of gratitude—for water, of course, but also for the education, sense of mission and opportunities she receives at PLU. Just turning on the tap and seeing drinkable water come out is a gift. She also has a renewed determination to make a difference in the world once she graduates. “I will never say I’m a poor college student again,” she laughs. Sure, the water crisis can seem overwhelming, and so can challenging and changing
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closer look at the contemporary effects of colonialism in Puerto Rico and how the United States has continued to perpetuate those effects, specifically in the areas of language, culture, education, migration, economics, and politics. Through an anthropological, economic, and linguistic lens, it is clear that after a century of U.S. colonial rule Puerto Rico has become a nation that obsesses over monolingualism, rejects the United States and English, has unequal educational opportunities, demonstrates
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