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the CIs in the United States. Faculty concerns over preserving academic freedom and university budget constraints concerning operating funds have all contributed to the trend. But so has a decline of American student interest in China studies and learning Mandarin Chinese. These closings and the attendant inflammatory rhetoric exacerbate a national foreign language deficit at a time when training Mandarin speakers familiar with an ever more consequential China should be a national priority. To
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Introduction Posted by: alex.reed / May 26, 2022 May 26, 2022 By Kevin J. O’Brien, Dean of HumanitiesSpring, 2022This issue marks an important transition for the Division of Humanities. As of this summer, the Humanities programs —English, Languages & Literatures, the Language Resource Center, the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, the Parkland Literacy Center, Philosophy, and Religion— will merge with others to form a new College of Humanities, Interdisciplinary Studies, and Social
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issues, including being home to PLU’s Language Resource Center, a multimedia center designed to serve as a virtual and physical hub of international studies across the campus of Pacific Lutheran University. Kreidler Hall is known for its small, tight-knit community of students with zest for fun and learning. Check out more about Kreidler on the Kreidler Hall page. Ordal Hall was freshly renovated for the 2015-16 Academic Year and rooms fill up fast! Ordal is home to the Diversity, Justice and
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scholarship record covering topics of equity and racial equity, project- and problem-based learning, and teacher learning and collaboration. Before transitioning into his current role, he spent 8 years as a public high school English teacher, worked as an adjunct instructor at several community colleges in the greater Puget Sound region, and worked as a teacher in a language school in Istanbul, Turkey. He is passionate about issues of equity and racial equity in education. In his personal and profession
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Morken Center for Learning & Technology 04.28.2023 1:45pm – 5:00pm “Eureka!”–“I have found it” – Archimedes of Cyprus (264 B.C.) The problem. The idea. The moment. Eureka is the profound combination of all three. How do we change the world like Archimedes? Eureka moments. PLUreka was a unique student-led showcase that allowed Lutes to apply the principles of innovation and entrepreneurship to everyday experiences. The competition focused on teaming and preparing solutions to challenging
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Bret Underwood, PhDPhysics DepartmentFlipped Learning for Student-Centered Class Time Bret Underwood, Assistant Professor of Physics, in class at PLU on Thursday, Sept. 17, 2015. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Bret Underwood is an Assistant Professor in Physics, currently teaching a two-course Mathematical Physics sequence. The courses can be a bit technical, and he’s been spending a lot of time lately thinking about how to integrate active learning into a technical upper-level physics course. At
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share a selection of this year’s disciplinary content and student projects. Reflections on the Clover Creek Watershed and Parkland Prairie This year’s ENVT 350 students created resources to share their knowledge of the watershed with others and wrote letters to express their concerns about the health of the watershed. Dannie Vashchenko created an animated book titled, “To Our Collective Health Learning to Flow and Grow Together.” You can access the animated book by clicking below: You can download
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Supporting students, business people and communities across Washington State with Chinese language learning The Confucius Institute of the State of Washington (CIWA) provides Chinese language testing services to people in the United States. Tests include: [1] the HSK (Hànyǔ Shuǐpíng Kǎoshì, 汉语水平考试), [2] the HSKK (Hànyǔ Shuǐpíng kǒuyǔ Kǎoshì, 汉语水平口语考试) and [3] the YCT (zhōng xiǎo xué Hànyǔ Shuǐpíng Kǎoshì, 中小学生汉语考试). All tests are internet-based and can be taken on-site or from home. Per recent
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What’s in our room? With Jess Mason ’24 Join Portland native, Jess Mason for a tour of their room in Hong Hall. Hong Global Hall is for local, national, and international students. Located in the middle of upper campus, it is home to a unique living/learning community consisting of six language and global… March 11, 2024 Global EducationLife on CampusResidential LifeStudent Life
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learning Sámi language and culture in Sápmi,” Gjelde-Bennett said. There’s a personal stake for Gjelde-Bennett in this line of study — she has Sámi heritage and wishes to reclaim her cultural roots. Gjelde-Bennett has completed research in four different countries over the past few years on indigenous rights efforts in Scandinavia. “During my past research on indigenous rights in Sápmi, I was limited by the small number of scholarly sources in English and unable to access local media and academic
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