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  • ASPLU Benson Family Foundation Bjug Harstad Memorial Fund Blue Zones Project Parkland-Spanaway

    will include: The origin and purpose of social connection in humans and non-humans The science of social connection Historical or contemporary challenges to social connection Social connection across differences Polarization, isolation, and political extremism Wisdom and cultural traditions on dis-connecting and reconnecting Mutual sustainability and thriving Social connection and purposeful living in community-building, civic engagement, and public service Strategies for re-connecting: courtesy

    Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education
    868 Wheeler St. Tacoma, WA 98447
  • News for Pacific Lutheran University.

    On Exhibit: Books in Honor of Women’s History Month This exhibit includes a selection of the library’s print books about women published within the past five years. The books cover a wide variety of issues affecting women’s lives, cultural contexts, political work, artistic achievements, and other issues. The library has an additional 383 e-books… March 8, 2023

  • News for Pacific Lutheran University.

    On Exhibit: Books in Honor of Women’s History Month This exhibit includes a selection of the library’s print books about women published within the past five years. The books cover a wide variety of issues affecting women’s lives, cultural contexts, political work, artistic achievements, and other issues. The library has an additional 383 e-books… March 8, 2023

  • On Exhibit: Common Reading Book 2021, The Best We Could Do The 2021-2022 academic year Common Reading book is the critically acclaimed graphic novel,  The Best We Could Do  by Thi Bui. In this timely and breathtaking memoir, Bui explores her experiences as a daughter…

    , the library has online films and journal articles and links to other content. Below is the virtual exhibit with links to resources.   Website Critical Refugee Studies Collective. (n.d.) Critical Research, Teaching, and Public Initiatives on Refugees. https://criticalrefugeestudies.com/ Refugees have long been the objects of inquiry for fields such as sociology, history, and political science. Refugees are also often featured in the media serving as objects of suffering or agents of terrorism. The

  • Jillian graduated with a BA in Economics and a BBA in Business Administration with a concentration in Marketing. She is starting work at Ann Clark Ltd as their Digital Marketing Analyst.

    from her home state of Indiana. She is looking forward to getting to know the political scene in D.C. and is networking to find a job relating to Economics and Chinese in order to stay in the city a while longer. Chaney Skadsen, 2016Chaney is currently attending Illinois State University where she is a Master’s International student pursuing a degree in Applied Economics and Community Development. While on campus she has been a graduate assistant working on implementing a grant (UWE), to get more

  • The Department of Global and Cultural Studies is a dynamic curricular hub for global education made up of the following programs: Chinese and Chinese Studies, French and Francophone Studies, Global

    be taken on campus.Concentration: Development and Social Justice Standards of living have increased dramatically worldwide over the past 100 years, yet poverty and inequality remain features of our world. Continued improvement in human well-being for all involves economic growth, reducing poverty, and addressing inequities and issues of social justice, for example in wealth, political freedom, education, and health care. Given the complexity of development processes and of the diverse array of

  • More than a century after PLU was founded by Norwegian immigrants, the university maintains its connection to the founders’ homeland through study away programs.

    pull from their personal experiences with immigration issues as they relate to the economy. PLU students offered examples such as the debate around immigrants’ participation in free and reduced lunch programs in the United States, as well as the prevalence of Hispanic workers in farming communities in Eastern Washington. “Lots of times, migrants are the only ones willing to do that work,” Barkman said. Talleraas immediately tied the example back to the negative impacts Brexit has had on the labor

  • President John F. Kennedy delivered a speech addressing the joint convocation of Pacific Lutheran University and the University of Puget Sound on September 27, 1963.

    the political and social problems of mankind, cutting to the marrow of reality as he saw it. … He gave a part of himself to the people of Tacoma and to the students attending the two Universities which were fortunate enough to be his hosts.” President Kennedy addresses the crowd of energized young people. Photos Click on each photo to view the image in the PLU Archives database. Documents Click on each image to view the document in the PLU Archives database. Secret Service Memo to Milton Nesvig

  • By Matthew Salzano ’18 PLU Communication Student I woke up at 8:15 a.m. Nov. 7, 2014, to an email from Michael Bartanen, Chair of the Communication department, with the subject, “You’re famous.” I came to PLU intending to focus my Communication degree on public relations…

    ’18 and Matthew Salzano ’18 at the Yes on I-591 rally on Election Night 2014. (Photo: Carolyn Adolph/KUOW) I signed up with my best friend, Michael Diambri, a fellow journalism major (and my employee at PLU’s college newspaper, The Mooring Mast). We showed up at the TNT dressed in our best, excited to be first-years at an award-winning paper on election night, ready to report the news. The political editor, Kim Bradford, briefed us in a conference room about the hashtag we would be using (#waelex

  • Panel: Michael Artime, Corey L. ook, Justin Eckstein, Mary Ellard-Ivey, Sergia Hay, and Heidi Schutz Location: Scandinavian Cultural Center

    Professor, Society and Environment and Medical Anthropology, University of California Berkeley in conversation with indigenous Mexican immigrants Introduced by Katherine Wiley, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, PLU Location: Regency Room 11:50 a.m. - 1:35 p.m. | Under the Volcano: Polarization in Mexico's Decaying Democracy Speaker: Dr. Denise Dresser, Professor of Political Science, ITAM, Mexico City Introduced by Adela Ramos, Associate Professor of English, PLU Location: Scandinavian Cultural