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on Duty. Vendor & Contractor AccessVendor & Contractor AccessPLU utilizes contractors and vendors across campus. Construction and other mechanical work is coordinated through Facilities Management. Facilities will provide Construction Alerts to affected areas to provide advanced notice of any disruption to the workplace and the presence of non-PLU individuals. Contractors and service vendors who are on campus for long durations of time may be issued temporary access cards. This process is

a tough job with the PLU nurses he works with. Shaping Health CarePLU’s first doctoral program trains nurse practitioners for lives of leadership. “They are all bright,” Larsen said. “They are eager, they are willing, they’re gung-ho. I’ve never had a student who was questionable. I’m sure it has to do with the incredibly competitive selection process.” The nurses in training bring that passion to partner providers in surrounding communities, where they often help underserved patients in areas

included working side by side with the mayor of a town, a brigade commander of an Iraqi army unit and a local police chief. All had their own areas of responsibility, he said. “But me as a 22-year-old lieutenant? Luckily, I had my political science degree and I have my training,” Calata said. “But how do you expect a 22-year-old kid to go into a place as old as the Bible and say ‘here, I’m going to fix your ancient problems.’” Dom Calata '08 Calata said he often thought back to the way Boice and his

sitting in a faculty meeting, minding my own business, just trying to figure what in the world this teaching thing is all about, and Dr. Lisosky was sitting next to me, and said ‘I have an idea. We should create some sort of agency and students would do all the work, the writing and photography for clients in the community,’” Wells recounted. “And then she turned to me and said, ‘And YOU should run it.’ ” That was 10 years ago. Now, the student group has produced five Emmy-nominated documentaries

Lifelong Lutes: Q&A With Two of PLU's Most Enthusiastic Alumni David and Anita Christian, both 1959 graduates, have modeled Pacific Lutheran University’s motto, “Educating for Lives of Thoughtful Inquiry, Service, Leadership and Care,” for their entire adult lives. David, now retired, was KPLU’s first engineer, serving PLU’s National Public Radio affiliated station from 1960-1997. Anita is a retired teacher who spent her career teaching elementary school in the Franklin Pierce School

How tough do you have to be to forge a new path? Colleen HackerColleen Hacker was on top of the world when she came to PLU. At age 22, she’d already been invited to two Olympic trials in two different sports, and had played in five national championships. She found herself teaching and coaching at a somewhat random, D-3 school she’d never even heard of because it was the only institution that would offer her a chance to both teach and be the head coach. Against the advice of some of her mentors

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Department includes teaching graduate courses, supervising students’ clinical work in the onsite Couple and Family Therapy Center (CFTC), and overseeing students’ transitions to offsite internship sites. Elisabeth is passionate about training students to be clinicians. Because therapy is based on a confidential relationship between clinician and client, most clinicians are never observed or given direct feedback once they graduate. Elisabeth believes one of the best ways to both learn and practice