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role of languages in liberating our past, enabling our present, and reshaping our future, had a profound effect upon how he insisted languages should be taught at a university. Luther valued languages for their present and future use in our practical business and in the pursuit of what we call, in the PLU mission statement, “service and care” in the world. But his ideas of vocation gave this language study a particularly Lutheran twist: language study was not about being enabled to transform the

. Mikhiela Sherrod, the director of US domestic programs for hunger relief organization Oxfam America, was both the conference’s keynote speaker and the moderator for Beeson’s panel. The panel on female empowerment in organizations brought Beeson together with students who compared modern women’s cooperatives and researched girls’ education in Kenya. “It was rewarding to be part of this conference,” Beeson says. “I had the opportunity for my research to be acknowledged on this scale.” Beeson’s research

that Africa matters. “There are lots of opportunities for us to partner with the people of Africa, with businesses in Africa,” she said. She entered the MBA program purposefully, so she could learn the link between entrepreneurship and social responsibility. She’s interested in exploring business opportunities for trade and investment in Africa and finding actual projects to distribute in America. Cunningham’s personal mission statement, “to acquire massive financial wealth so I can spend the rest

both places you can ‘follow your bliss,’ but here it is linked to things that are fundamental to who, as a university, we are.” He points to PLU’s mission statement, using its environmental language as an example – though he notes that any portion of it would be relevant. “When we talk about ‘care for the earth,’ it is linked to who we are as a university” Torvend said. “There is a moral and ethical connection [to such ideas] because of our middle name.” With the chair comes a certain level of

is the first in her family to earn a Ph.D.—and the only African-American faculty member on tenure track in UC-B’s College of Natural Resources. “And it’s 2014,” she said. Following a State of the University address by Pacific Lutheran University President Thomas W. Krise, Finney explored the intersection of diversity, justice and sustainability (“DJS” at PLU), three pillars vital to PLU’s mission of educating students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership and care—for other people

September 26, 2014 Shelia Smith, new Dean of the School of Nursing. John Froschauer, Photographer Liberal Arts and Nursing. A Perfect Match of Science and Compassion By Barbara Clements PLU Marketing and Communications Pacific Lutheran University’s new Dean of the School of Nursing, Dr. Sheila Smith, says she was drawn to move across country and take the top leadership role at one of the premier nursing schools in the Northwest because of the sense of mission at PLU, commitment to academic

assortment of disciplines and vocations represented by symposium speakers are crucial to an expansive examination of the event’s theme of resilience and represent the foundational mission of the conference, Shah said.7th Biennial Wang Center SymposiumThe Countenance of Hope: Towards an Interdisciplinary and Cross-Cultural Understanding of ResilienceFeatured Speakers“We hope to demonstrate the connection between the local and global issues, recognizing that the world is interconnected and thus we can’t

, spent the day with the Korean Women’s Association, a nonprofit organization that provides a variety of services to marginalized individuals throughout Western Washington. “I wanted to do the job shadow specifically because I’m a senior, and I don’t have a specific track or job planned out,” Nabass said.  Nabass met the agency’s leaders and a few of their clients, gaining greater insight into KWA’s mission. “This experience opened my eyes to what is out there, as long as you know where and how to

rural regions. Established in 2022, PNWU’s new DPT degree enhances the university’s mission to educate and train health care professionals for quality patient care in local communities. Nearly 60% of PNWU’s Doctor of Physical Therapy students are from the Northwest, and almost a quarter come from medically underserved areas. Like the DPT, PNWU’s MSOT program, beginning in fall 2023, will ensure the health and well-being of rural and medically underserved communities throughout the Northwest and

of pharmacy as a retail-oriented practice that is focused solely on dispensing medication and that could be headed for  possible obsolescence in an increasingly automated world.  In reality, modern pharmacy practice relies on the pharmacist as the medication expert to provide pharmaceutical care with increasingly complex medicines and therapies.  As a matter of fact, most NEOMED Pharm.D. graduates are now pursuing optional post-graduate training programs in clinical settings en route to