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  • ResoLute Staff – Resolute Online: Winter 2019 Search Features Features Welcome Bring Your Whole Self Travel as a Political Act Power Paddle to Puyallup Strong Link of Three Alternative Transportation The Reboot of Outdoor Rec PLU’s Podcast Push Gallery Discovery Discovery Accolades Lute Library PLU Pledge Blogs Alumni News Alumni News Homecoming Recap Connection Events Free Career Hacks Annual Report Legacy Lutes Nesvig Hike Senate Debate Class Notes Class Notes Obituaries Submit a Class Note

  • Pacific Islander Club Matthew Orcilla ’17 Asian Pacific Islander Club What was/is the PLU climate? (Photo: From the 1997 Saga) 1997 Asian Pacific Islander Club: President, Kathy Sheridan; Vice President, Wanda Louie; Treasurer, Haga Ko; Secretary, Korb Rim; Public Relations, Leilani Balais. Member: Jennifer Carlson, Chas Derting, Gayle Franks, Peter Loo, Shannon Mark, Christine Senon, and Heidi Yoneda. Leilani Balais ’99: The percentage of students of color was very small in the mid to late 1990s. In

  • : Undergraduate Academic Warning: Continuing Students Academic Warning: First-Year Students Accommodation of Persons with Disabilities Policy Accreditation and Institutional Research Adding or Dropping a Course Admission: Graduate Admission: Evaluation of Credits – Undergraduate Admission: Finalizing an Offer of Admission- Undergraduate Admission: First Year Students – Undergraduate Admission: International Students – Undergraduate Admission: Transfer Students – Undergraduate Admission: Undergraduate

  • Indigenous LearningMission:Native American and Indigenous Studies is an interdisciplinary program grounded in a partnership between students, faculty, staff and local communities, with a global Indigenous focus centered in local and regional contexts. We empower students to recognize, honor and value Indigenous ways of knowing, so that they can work in collaboration with Indigenous communities and all their relations. The Native American and Indigenous Studies minor combines NAIS courses with

  • May 11, 2009 What to do with a whale skeleton? Dragging the arched five-foot jawbones of a gray whale out from the corner of a chicken coop in Lakewood, assistant professor of biology Mike Behrens saw the bones just didn’t match up. Laying out three of the jawbones, which once belonged to a juvenile eschrichtius robustus which washed up dead on an Olympia beach three years ago, Behrens noted that there should only be two. “I think we have a second whale here,” he laughed, as his two assistants

  • February 22, 2011 Programs that engage the world By Kari Plog ’11 At PLU, studying doesn’t just take place inside a classroom. Nearly half of the students enrolled at PLU will study away by the time they graduate, and the Wang Center for Global Education recently showcased what these experiences can offer through World Conversations. Every January, hundreds of PLU students study around the world. (Photo by Theodore Charles ’12) “World Conversations is designed to give students the opportunity

  • June 10, 2014 Life-Changing Connections Across Time and Continents The ‘Namibia Nine’ film crew on location, from left: Andrea Capere, Princess Reese, Joanne Lisosky, Melannie Denise Cunningham, Shunying Wang, Maurice Byrd. PLU Film Team Spends a Month in Namibia Exploring Transformative Experiences in Higher Ed—Including Their Own By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications As part of a post-apartheid strategy nearly 20 years ago, 100 promising young Namibian leaders came to the

  • the Age of Coronavirus.“I’m now in my third semester of virtual learning,” said Tracy, who will graduate in May. ”The thing about PLU that I value the most is the accessibility of creating relationships with professors, staff members and other students. That has just really been lacking because of COVID. “I can’t go to office hours easily, and you don’t see people in passing; and so, that community aspect is definitely missing.” Tracy chose to attend PLU out of the six colleges that accepted her

  • Updated October 2022 The university’s approach to in-person versus remote work reflects our priority for fully serving students, as well as our acknowledgement that our roles and responsibilities vary significantly across campus, and that supervisors are best positioned to determine the appropriate level of in-person engagement for particular positions. To create the community our students expect, employees should generally plan to work on campus. In those instances where work functions can be

  • Alternative Spring Break: US/Mexico Border Immersion ProgramIn March 2015, I partnered with the Center of Community Engagement and Service to lead an Alternative Spring Break centering on immigration and the US/Mexico border (in Texas and New Mexico). Seven students, representing many different backgrounds and majors, along with one recent alumna, and student facilitator Carly Book, participated in this immersion program. Our group partnered with the Iglesia Luterana Cristo Rey (under the