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happening within six hours, much faster than it would occur in a community setting otherwise, Royce-Davis says. It isn’t just the on-campus PLU community finding ways to support students, the local community, alumni and donors have also stepped up. On Giving Tuesday, an annual one-day fundraiser in November, the PLU community raised more than $40,000 for a new clinical care coordinator and crisis counselor. Royce-Davis says the clinical care coordinator likely will have a background in social work with
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practices. However, where it’s different is that we’re now shifting our professional support for leaders, teachers and coaches to helping them get through this immediate shift.” We caught up Anderson, who was named Montana’s Teacher of the Year in 2016, to learn more about how educators, students and parents across the nation are doing during this unprecedented time and to learn more about the challenges they are facing (well beyond some schools simply being closed). PLU: Tell us about what you were
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Wang Center for Global Education, also showed a series of videos about Tutu, South Africa and the creation of apartheid. The roots of the separation of races landed with the Dutch immigrants who came to the southern tip of Africa in the 17th century. The actual doctrine was established by the National Party in 1948. The apartheid was a legal system that curtailed the rights of the majority ‘non-whites’ in South Africa under the rule of the white minority. Tutu was born in 1931, and at first wanted
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are not just stewards of nature, but view themselves instead as a part of all nature and the ecological system, he continued. Before a full-house in the Scandinavian Cultural Center of the Anderson University Center, Rasmussen, the Reinhold Neibuhr Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York, gave the keynote for the Lutheran Studies Conference – Lutheran Perspectives on Political Life: “What has God to do with Caesar?” “Ours is not the same planet our ancestors
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courtesy of MediaLab) Lunka and fellow Communication students Amanda Brasgalla ‘15 and Olivia Ash ‘15 spent more than a year traveling across the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, conducting nearly 100 interviews with people involved in various aspects of the food system, including several food-recovery organizations. “Food waste is an issue that’s becoming widespread across the world, and it’s something everyone can connect to,” Brasgalla said. “Food-recovery organizations have been
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activist Vandana Shiva. Other notable speakers include Shane Lopez, a Gallup Senior Scientist and advocate for psychological reform of America’s education system; Juan Villoro, arguably Mexico’s most important living author and political commentator; Enrique Lomnitz, an internationally-recognized leader in water management and sustainability; and Adia Benton, a medical anthropologist and global health researcher who examines resilience in post-epidemic contexts. Symposium speakers will be traveling to
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runs a school system that welcomes hundreds of Lutes who serve as mentors and tutors for kids in the surrounding community. Terry Bergeson, interim dean of the School of Education and Kinesiology, says Hewins is responsible for turning a district formerly known as a “dropout factory” into one of the top-performing districts in the country. “His work totally exemplifies our PLU mission,” Bergeson said. Read Previous Lute receives endowed scholarship honoring her Native American heritage Read
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leadership, and that has guided this stage of my leadership career,” she concludes. “You shouldn’t go into management to get ahead or to make more money. You should go in because you wish to be of service. If you’re the boss, you darn well better care about people.” Lute Powered is a new series highlighting PLU alumni at some of the most well-known organizations in the Puget Sound region. Terri Card ’83 is the first of three Lutes that will be featured from Multicare Health System. × Read Previous
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inequities. “We are understanding more just how connected our processes are in creating disparities,” she says. “We’ve been educating our workforce on what equity is, how to look at things through an equity lens, and dissecting how we do what we do. We’re typically one piece of the system, but often, the piece that we can change can still make a difference.” She’s enthusiastic about encouraging community member participation in Tacoma commissions, explaining commission work and reasons to volunteer. “I
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: AmazonLute Powered: MultiCare Health System Read Previous PLU awarded $15,000 from NSF for COVID-19 DEI Challenge Read Next Nursing major sees value in studying and investing in health services 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 A family with a “Bjug” legacy of giving and service September 27, 2024 PLU hosts the 14th Annual Lutheran Studies Conference: Celebrating
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