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Do you love the outdoors? This fall, we’re launching a brand-new Outdoor Experience Community , one of our many themed learning communities (LCs) on campus. When living on campus, students have the option of living in a hall with a learning community that fits their…
fostering a deeper connection with nature and learning to become stewards of the Earth. One of the community’s core values is promoting the seven Leave No Trace Principles. These principles ensure we leave the natural environment as pristine and beautiful as we found it, minimizing our impact on delicate ecosystems. You might be thinking, “But I’m not an experienced outdoorsman or an expert hiker.” Well, fear not! The Outdoor Experience community is open to everyone, regardless of skill level, ability
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Learning about the environment offers opportunities to integrate studies of nature and natural systems with those of human systems, and to bring both into dialogue with a humanistic understanding of
Program of Study The Program, in keeping with the broad liberal arts objectives of the university, offers a major and a minor in Environmental Studies. Students have the opportunity to link environmental themes to any area of the curriculum they select in their complementary major or minor. For example, those with an interest in Biology, Chemistry or Earth Science can, therefore, tailor a program of environmental science; others can focus their attention on the environment in the social sciences
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Lutheran Studies Conference
the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to American Indian and Alaska Native People.” We welcome honest and candid discussion of the ELCA’s regional and national work in the Truth and Healing Movement. The Lutheran tradition lifts up radical love while also encouraging honest acknowledgment of the ways we harm ourselves, each other, and the earth, and this conference likewise combines celebration and accountability. Throughout the day, we will celebrate Ms. Carpenter’s legacy in Indigenous
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A lifetime of stewardship honored Students, faculty, and staff have made huge advances in the last several years to make PLU an ecologically friendly and sustainable campus. Thelma Gilmur ’42 has been living these ideals her whole life. Gilmur, 85, accepted the Helen Engle Lifetime…
became a much bigger part of the curriculum,” she said. Schools began taking their students on nature field trips, and Gilmur would often be the one to teach students about native plants and wildlife. While she was serving as the chair of elementary education for the Tacoma School District, U. S. Congress passed the law that established Earth Day in 1970. Gilmur fondly recalls her time at Pacific Lutheran College. Diverse wildlife such as owls and deer roamed in the forests that stood directly behind
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Food Symposium addresses the many ways food impacts the world. The ethics of food By Katie Scaff ’13 The PLU Philosophy Department’s Food Symposium Feb. 21 will address the ethics revolving around food. Keynote speaker, Paul B. Thompson – the W.K. Kellogg Chair in Agricultural,…
partner at Salmon Creek Meat, who will discuss the importance of putting a face on your food, and Carrie Little, farm manager at Mother Earth Farm, who will talk about the importance of buying and eating locally. Read Previous Technology opens more collaborative possibilities Read Next Terje Tvedt talks about the sociopolitical nature of water 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
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Dear Campus Community: The news from Charlottesville, Virginia over the past few days has shocked, angered and saddened many of us. Our prayers are with the victims of violence, their families, and other loved ones. White supremacists’ display of racism, anti-Semitism and raw hatred is…
, and other loved ones. White supremacists’ display of racism, anti-Semitism and raw hatred is antithetical to what this nation and the PLU community stands for. PLU’s mission calls us to care for others, for their communities and for the Earth, and we remain resolute in our commitment to address bigotry whenever and wherever it arises on our campus and within our communities. I caution against generalizations and judgement of those with whom we may disagree; that kind of thinking and resulting
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What I saw at the Capitol this week was no surprise. There are no words to describe how sickening it was to witness this attack on our democracy, it was shocking, but it wasn’t a surprise. To put it plainly, we have deeply rooted systems…
these systems at their source.One way that we strive to do this work every day at PLU is by helping to ensure that all students have access to a purposeful, transformative education. PLU’s mission—to educate students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership, and care, for others, for their communities, and for the earth—is hardwired in Lutheran higher education’s core belief that study in the liberal arts is a liberating experience, freeing the learner from ignorance and a life focused
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In 2003, former PLU provosts Paul Menzel and Patricia Killen secured a $2 million grant from the Lilly Endowment to launch a program for the exploration of vocation at PLU.
perfectly with PLU’s educational mission to link “thoughtful inquiry” (learning) with “service and care for other people, their communities, and the Earth.” While PLU offers a quality education to undergraduates in a variety of disciplines, the Center adds value to a PLU education by helping students, staff, and faculty consider how their lives might promote “human and ecological flourishing.” Among the 95 schools who received Lilly money, PLU has been rated as one of the top five schools who used grant
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PLU Named Top Fulbright Producer By Chris Albert Pacific Lutheran University ranks among the top schools in the nation for the number of students selected for a Fulbright Student Fellowship in 2010. Eric Buley and Nicolette Paso were selected as student Fulbright Fellowship recipients.…
particular city influenced the social reform that it’s government enacted,” she said. She’s excited to be in Germany again. A few years ago she studied abroad there and is looking forward to returning. “As nerdy as it sounds, I am thrilled to be able to work in the city archives and libraries,” Paso said. “Research is something that I enjoy, particularly when it is connected to my passion for social justice. It is rare for an undergraduate to be able to travel to the original sources for this kind of
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Archbishop Desmond Tutu spoke to a crowd of 15,000 at the Tacoma Dome urging them to change their world for the good, one act at a time. Tutu urges 15,000 in Tacoma Dome to be the spark that changes a community, a life. By…
you look back at for the rest of your lives.” Ford ’12 said that was certainly true for him. Ford said he will never forget his brief meeting with Tutu on Friday. It changed his outlook and his entire perspective. “Tutu said something that really stuck out to me,” he noted after the event. “Tutu said that each of us is one of a kind. In other words, if each of us is one of kind, then that makes us rare. There is value in rarity, therefore I am valuable. This is profoundly encouraging.” And it was
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