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, graduation rates, student-to-faculty ratio, endowment per student, selectivity and other key metrics as reported via the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES). “For students seeking the enriching experience of a smaller college with exceptional programs, institutions like PLU emerge as prime options, and we are honored to spotlight them with the recognition they genuinely deserve,” said William Staib, co-founder and CEO, College Raptor. This summer, PLU was named a 2024 "Hidden Gem" university

Intersections: Lutheran Social Teaching and Economic Life Posted by: abryant / March 27, 2020 March 27, 2020 Cover art by Sheila Mesick Intersections, Number 51, Spring 2020Intersections is a publication by and largely for the academic communities of the twenty-seven institutions that comprise the Network of ELCA Colleges and Universities (NECU). Each issue reflects on the intersection of faith, learning, and teaching within Lutheran higher education. It is published by the NECU, and has its

country with three awards. Since 1975, 83 students from PLU have received fellowships, a prime indicator of the fact that for the past 30 years, PLU has been steadily building the foundation for a globally focused university. “Today, our model of global education is preparing students to be citizens of the world – to be learners as well as teachers, to strive to understand before trying to be understood and to collaborate rather than to impose one-size-fits-all solutions,” said PLU President Loren J

took their final high school exam, 50 percent failed. “The biggest problem with education is that students are taught in their native language and then they are expected to pass high school in English,” Bryant said. “If they don’t get an education, then they have no future.” Bryant worked with the Salesian Sisters, who run BCC, to give students Karissa Bryant sits with a daughter of the Self Help Group member in Umphrew – a village outside of Shillong. The group members make bricks and sell them in

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

representative of the US,” Hylander said. “I pursued Fulbright because I want to learn more about Latin America, specifically about the US’s relationship with Colombia and other Latin American countries and I want to learn how I can work for social justice in Latin America and for Latin American immigrants in the US.” Caitlin Walton ’12 – ETA in Malaysia Walton – from Colorado Springs, Colo. – graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in elementary education. She has accepted an ETA position in Malaysia. There she

violence in Washington schools. Anderson led a group of students, from local middle schools to colleges, to rally for the National School Walkout on the steps of the state Capitol building. Anderson’s family is familiar with education politics: her mother is a mental-health counselor in Lewis County schools, her father is a middle-school principal, and her younger sister is a freshman at Olympia High School. #WillWeBeNextLearn more about the awareness campaign centered on gun violence“It’s a family gig

, philosophy, political science, psychology, and others. The course will also include a panel of three PLU alumni that are emergency room physicians. The course is being coordinated by PLU’s Wang Center for Global Education and co-facilitated by Teresa Ciabattari, interim dean of interdisciplinary studies, and Tamara Williams, executive director of the Wang Center. Williams recently answered a few questions about the new course.Why program this course now, while the pandemic is still ongoing? A college or

as a software engineer, working on an open source tool for managing smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain. Amazon offered Gavidia a software engineering job weeks prior to commencement, and he plans to someday start his own software company. #LutesOpenDoors Jessa Delos Reyes ‘24 Teaching a Universal LanguageTeaching music in rural Namibia was a life-changing experience for music education major Jessa Delos Reyes ‘24. Reyes was a part of PLU’s Uukumwe Project, an educational partnership with

.“I want our future engineers to be educated through a liberal arts system and not just technically educated in their field,” said Hay, the program’s director. “I want them also to understand people and what our society needs from engineers.” Dual Degree Engineering offers students a chance to combine those strengths of a liberal arts education with the rigorous coursework of engineering. Students who complete the program earn two degrees — one from PLU and the other from an ABET-accredited