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to do, and several fields I explored just didn’t fit right,” said Hall, a senior at PLU. “I hadn’t settled and was looking for something else.”It soon became apparent that Hall needed another option, and PLU created one. Working with her advisor, Suzanne Crawford-O’Brien, Hall is now just weeks away from completing an individualized interdisciplinary major in Native American and indigenous studies. “I just went back to what I was interested in,” she said. Hall is a member of the Samish Indian

The 2015 PLU Celebration of Leadership Posted by: Zach Powers / May 12, 2015 May 12, 2015 TACOMA, WASH. (May 12, 2015)— The 2015 Celebration of Leadership recognized students who live lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care while empowering their peers to do the same. On Monday, May 11, the Division of Student Life welcomed PLU faculty, administrators, staff and students to Chris Knutzen Hall to celebrate the contributions of student leaders who have excelled academically and

meanings and implications of words commonly used in the news, on social media and on college campuses. Episodes of OTI are released once per month. If you have feedback, comments or ideas for episodes, please email producer Zach Powers at powerszs@plu.edu. Previous EpisodeDr. Young discusses the word “violence” with Professor of Psychology Michelle Ceynar and Associate Professor of Philosophy Pauline Shanks Kaurin. Read Previous Thomas Kim ’15 Meets Justice Sandra Day O’Connor at Law School Read Next

come here and be in our little bubble here at PLU,” said Marisa Etzell ‘20, who works as a student volunteer at Perry G Keithley Middle School in Parkland. “We have the opportunity to serve, and I think that it’s our job as students here at PLU to recognize our privilege and use that privilege as leaders. (We’re in) a rich, diverse community with plenty of opportunities for experiential learning.” The university is working hard to eliminate that gap. CCES is an integral tool to that end, mobilizing

during the Holocaust. No more than 11 percent of children sent to concentration camps survived, while as many as one in three adults survived to liberation. It’s because children had no value to the Nazis, Herschkowitz said. He was one of the lucky ones who survived. As a young child he escaped Belgium with both his parents to France. Once in unoccupied France, his family hid their identity as Jews by buying fake documents and sending Herschkowitz to a Catholic school. The time was confusing for him

Benson Lecture with Brad Tilden Draws 400 at PLU Posted by: halvormj / October 24, 2017 Image: Benson lecturer Brad Tilden with faculty panelists Sergia Hay, Michael Halvorson, Norris Peterson, Bridgette O’Brien, and Mark Mulder. October 24, 2017 By Michael Halvorson.  On October 17, 2017, PLU alum Brad Tilden (1983) engaged with students, faculty, and alumni in a lively conversation about the past, present, and future of Alaska Airlines. The special event was organized as the 13th annual Dale

Innovation and Resilience Posted by: halvormj / May 7, 2018 May 7, 2018 By Damian Alessandro, ’19 At Pacific Lutheran University, we’re pretty excited about innovation. Over the past few months, my colleague Sarah Cornell-Maier and I have been writing about several types of innovation that we see in the workplace and in our curriculum. This week, I took a deep dive on disruptive innovation with some faculty in the PLU School of Business, who are also mentors in our Innovation Studies program

football team). Today, he serves as a vice chair of the PLU Board of Regents. We recently met with Miller to discuss his career, working at the port, and his best advice to current Lutes. What do you enjoy most about working in the IT field? I love to find ways to help an operation be more efficient or more competitive by using technology. I think that’s a ton of fun. In a leadership role, the work is often working with business leaders to identify the best opportunities to apply technology in ways

still getting down into the weeds of IT projects and puzzle-solving? Oh yes, absolutely. That’s my favorite part of the job. It’s important that I understand the day-to-day challenges of making the technology work. At the same time, I’m always working with our business leaders to identify opportunities to accomplish more with technology. I think both sides of that equation are tremendously rewarding for me. I like getting into the weeds of something like network security and thinking about how we

students’ efforts to brainstorm solutions on how to best message to young drivers. DECA, an organization encouraging students to problem solve in a business setting, is prevalent throughout the state of Washington and provides  students the opportunity to address driving-related problems on their own. Mason has been working for the past two years with students to come up with methods to change poor driving behaviors, and all with great success. By allowing young drivers to initiate the conversation