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  • considers it a privilege to work with this group and is humbled by its acceptance of him. Before leaving for Nicaragua, he admitted he was a bit worried about how the villagers would react to a bunch of American students showing up. But the reception has been so welcoming, he is simply speechless for a moment. Then he turns to the issue of water. “I want everyone else to have the same privilege I have,” he says: When you turn on the faucet, you get clean water, immediately. And that’s the basic purpose

  • students find the right solutions to pay for their education. Presented by: Jeff Lackey, Student Financial Services Director, Graduate & Professional Programs, Sallie Mae PLU Alum ’97 1:30 – 2:30pm  Break-out Sessions – Virtual Meet and Greet How will a graduate degree optimize your career opportunities? Join us to meet with the program director or advisor, students, and faculty from the program of your interest. You can learn about the program features, curriculum, and how it can help you achieve your

  • and Latino Studies, and Chinese and Chinese Studies – provide broad access to the world of tomorrow and inform many of today’s disciplines. Reexamining the past, understanding the present, preparing for the future – all these are reasons to make language study a part of your PLU experience and your “one wild and precious life.” Opportunities for Languages MajorsFulbright Scholarships. As of 2014, 85 PLU students have won the coveted and prestigious Fulbright scholarship with an all expenses-paid

  • Campus Safety at 253-535-7911.Learn more about fires & building evacuationUniversity WebsiteLook for website updates on the university home page (www.plu.edu), when possible.PLU EmailCheck email often for notifications and updates, when possible.Emergency Information & Closures HotlinePLU may activate this line with recorded incident information or weather closure information. 1-877-322-0872FlashAlert.netPLU Students and employees can sign up to receive PLU weather or emergency email or text alerts

  • The PLU School of Nursing is dedicated to fair and accurate appraisal of each student’s coursework. When disagreements arise over grades assigned in a course, students and faculty should first follow the School’s established procedure for informal grade dispute resolution. If the informal procedure is unsuccessful in resolving the grade dispute, students and faculty will undertake the School’s formal grade dispute resolution procedure. Procedural Steps: A student considering a grade dispute

  • to her arrival at PLU. A history major with minors in religion and Holocaust and genocide studies, Atkinson’s passion for research, academia, and higher education developed at PLU through her collaborative research with professors, her tenure as president of  Phi Alpha Theta (PLU’s history honors society), and her work as PLU’s Vet Corps Navigator. What led you down the path of becoming an Arabic linguist? Out of the jobs available to me as a woman in the military in 2014, becoming a linguist was

  • teach in any other discipline. He gets to know – really know – the 11 students assigned to his class each year. They range from an autistic young boy who won’t utter a sound to a girl who will probably be mainstreamed into the regular classroom soon. At first the pay was tough, he admits. He was pulling in about $2,200 a month, if that. But now that he’s up the pay scale, it’s better.“My friends might be making more money than I, but they are not happy with their jobs,” he says. As the students come

  • Lutheran Studies Conference Schedule Pre-Conference 8:30-11:30am Conference (12:30-5pm) Dining Options for the Lunch & Dinner Sunday, October 1, 2023 Community members, faculty, students, congregations and church leaders are welcome to join in a common reading of the book Love Without Limits and attend a Sunday morning, Oct. 1 at 9:45am discussion of the book with the author prior to the conference. Congregations are encouraged to join students in reading the Knutson lecture speaker’s book

  • Convocation, Opening of the New Year PLU marks the opening of our ‘new year’ with Convocation. This ceremony dates back to customs from medieval universities meant to welcome new students and new faculty, and to set intentions for the year ahead — together. This morning, I had the honor of speaking… September 9, 2014 NewsWhat's a Lute?

  • my application for an extended deadline for that fall. As soon as I returned to Colorado, I rushed my application and was accepted the next week. I was fortunate at the University of Montana to have many supportive professors from whom I learned a great deal about teaching and research. I worked with Dr. Frances Hill on my dissertation who I consider to be both a mentor and dear friend. It is through her honesty, gentle encouragement and support that I am doing something I truly enjoy doing