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out to open a discussion about a largely marginalized portion of American society, explore how Islam is defined in America, and to counter negative impressions and stereotypes. “The statistic that prompted us to pursue this topic was from a 2010 TIME Magazine poll that stated that 62 percent of Americans claim to have never met a Muslim,” Rose said. Upon reading this, Rose knew that the main objective of the film needed to be the simple act of introducing the audience to average American Muslims

you’ll get out of your college education,” Baillon said. “We want every student to start at PLU with at least one shared experience,” said Matthew Levy, assistant professor of English and Common Reading Program co-director. “And it is important to us that it is an intellectual experience involving communication, community and critical thinking – the themes of our First-Year Experience Program.” It won’t just be first-year students taking part in the program. PLU faculty members, staff and returning

incorporate issues of diversity and equity into our work. He argued that “issues of power and voice are at the heart of th[is] effort,” and made a provocative connection between Lutheran Higher Education and the writings of Malcolm X: Malcolm, the separatist who could throw his sharpest arrows at a predominantly white university, saw education as the sine qua non of self-determination. A Lutheran university can not only celebrate that latter commitment with him, but in the recognition of his own need for

Shayna Doi ‘09 Posted by: juliannh / February 23, 2022 February 23, 2022 By Fulton Bryant-AndersonFormer Rieke Scholar Shayna Doi 09’uses critical reflection, perspective taking, community and care everyday. Diversity Center values underscore her life, relationships, and work.“I don’t know who I would be if I didn’t have that opportunity.” Shayna joined the Diversity Center via Hawai’i Club after a luau during her first-year at PLU. The 4th generation Japanese-American credits the Diversity

, concerts and operas in Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Canada, France, Great Britain, New Zealand, South Korea and the United States. I have previously taught at Texas State University in San Marcos and Baylor University in Waco, Texas.  I am also on the faculty at Cornish-American Song Institute in England, a summer three-week intensive study of art songs for singers, composers and pianists. I received my education and training from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music

April 25, 2008 One person can make a difference As he watched his family drive away down a dirt road in Kigali, Rwanda, Carl Wilkens thought he’d seen them in a few days, a week tops. But it was April 10, 1994, and Wilkens – he only American out of 257 who stayed in Rwanda through the genocide that claimed one million lives in three months – would not see his family until after the horror had ended. It was tempting to get on the convoys to the border of nearby Burundi, he told a packed audience

, will support the development and implementation of the professional development workshops for teachers. Of the total, Whitman was awarded $127,006. Titled “Collaborative Research: Teachers on the Leading Edge: Linking K-12 Earth Science Teachers to EarthScope,” the project is a collaboration between PLU, the University of Portland, Central Washington University and Portland Community College. EarthScope is a 10-year program to explore the structure of the North American continent and advance

it was not enough to create an endowed position. That task was taken up by Audun Toven, who is a professor emeritus of Norwegian at PLU. Toven made it his goal during his tenure at PLU, and after he retired, to raise enough money for the endowment. “If it wasn’t for Audun, we wouldn’t be here today,” Anderson said. Just days before the May 17 announcement, Kim Nesselquist ’83, Consul of Norway for Washington and Idaho, and the executive director of the Norwegian-American Foundation, engaged in a

activist Maude Barlow to an assembled crowd in Lagerquist Concert Hall. “There’s lots of water, until there’s no water at all,” the keynote speaker of the 2012 Wang Symposium – Our Thirsty Planet, told the crowd. The address marked the inaugural PLU Norwegian-American Annual Lecture. “First and foremost, we are a planet running out of water,” Barlow said. “What we actually have to get our heads around is we are actually coming to the end of water.” In many parts of the world, rivers and fresh water

. 14. Where: Regency Room, Anderson University Center, Pacific Lutheran University. Admission: Free and open to the public. Mexico is one of PLU’s “Gateway” countries, and the university has had a program in Oaxaca for approximately 10 years, said PLU Professor of Hispanic Studies Dr. Tamara R. Williams, Executive Director of PLU’s Wang Center for Global Education. “Over 100 Lutes have graduated from the program, many of whom now serve the Latino community in the U.S. or have secured jobs overseas