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  • Washington D.C. (March. 9, 2017)- The small group of Pacific Lutheran University students, standing huddled together in a jam-packed section toward the front of the National Mall, remained silent. Some shook their heads in disbelief. Others wore expressions of shock. Two couldn’t stop tears from…

    vast majority clad in Trump’s signature, bright red “Make America Great Again” baseball caps. The group slowly maneuvered through the dense crowd into a central area with a clear view of the stage. It soon became clear, however, that a move was needed to keep the students safe. “There was a man standing next to Dr. Schleeter who saw my shirt and said to another guy he was with: ‘that girl is here to protest and she’d better get out of here before she gets hurt,’” said Tori Sullivan ’18, who was

  • PLU President Thomas W. Krise welcomes faculty and staff back to campus, highlighting the strengths of PLU and his goals for the future. (Photo by John Froschauer) “A University of the First Rank” By President Thomas W. Krise Good morning and welcome to the 2012…

    scholarship not only for its own sake (and we do that too) but also for the value we gain from having people hear about the work that our faculty and staff do so well here. We need to energize our natural constituencies such as our alumni, our retired faculty and staff, our supporting congregations and synods of our Region One of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, our partners in the community, in various groups and associations—and we need to give them narratives to tell.  For those of us who

  • Mission: The Powell-Heller Holocaust Education Conference at Pacific Lutheran University teaches the history and the lessons of the Holocaust to students and educators throughout the Pacific

    prestigious DuPont-Columbia Award in Broadcast Journalism (sharing the documentary award with Ken Burns’ The Civil War series). The film received two national prime-time broadcasts on P.B.S. A 25th-anniversary edition of the film, revised and remastered will be released in 2014. Sauvage’s 2013 documentary Not Idly By—Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust, won the Best Documentary Award at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival. The film provides the challenging and eloquent testimony of Peter Bergson, a

  • Facing History 101: A Workshop for Educators (preregistration required) 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Designed and led by Fran Sterling, Senior Research and Development Associate for Facing History and

    Miller, Artistic Director of Music of Remembrance The Chris Knutzen Room (Anderson University Center) The Current Crisis: The Dehumanization of Refugee Children in the U.S. 3:45p.m. – 5:00 p.m. In 2014, thousands of children made the dangerous trek from Central America to the U.S., traveling without adult family members and facing violence, exploitation, and sexual assault. How was their plight described in various U.S. commentaries and why were these children not welcomed as refugees? This panel

  • Mission: The Powell-Heller Holocaust Education Conference at Pacific Lutheran University teaches the history and the lessons of the Holocaust to students and educators throughout the Pacific

    prestigious DuPont-Columbia Award in Broadcast Journalism (sharing the documentary award with Ken Burns’ The Civil War series). The film received two national prime-time broadcasts on P.B.S. A 25th-anniversary edition of the film, revised and remastered will be released in 2014. Sauvage’s 2013 documentary Not Idly By—Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust, won the Best Documentary Award at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival. The film provides the challenging and eloquent testimony of Peter Bergson, a

  • Facing History 101: A Workshop for Educators (preregistration required) 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Designed and led by Fran Sterling, Senior Research and Development Associate for Facing History and

    Miller, Artistic Director of Music of Remembrance The Chris Knutzen Room (Anderson University Center) The Current Crisis: The Dehumanization of Refugee Children in the U.S. 3:45p.m. – 5:00 p.m. In 2014, thousands of children made the dangerous trek from Central America to the U.S., traveling without adult family members and facing violence, exploitation, and sexual assault. How was their plight described in various U.S. commentaries and why were these children not welcomed as refugees? This panel

  • Bestselling author and Ojibwe Indian David Treuer delivered the 2023 Natalie Mayer and Raphael Lemkin lecture.

    , & Anti-Semitism: British & Soviet Spy Ops Against Boston’s Christian Front Organization, 1940-1945Dr. Charles R. Gallagher, S.J., of the history department at Boston College spoke about his explorations of a heretofore unknown set of intelligence relationships involving Nazi, British, and Soviet spy networks in Boston during World War II.Congratulations to 2018’s Raphael Lemkin Essay Contest winners! First place: Teresa Hackler for her essay “It is Nice in a Developed Country Like America

  • Mission: The Powell-Heller Holocaust Education Conference at Pacific Lutheran University teaches the history and the lessons of the Holocaust to students and educators throughout the Pacific

    prestigious DuPont-Columbia Award in Broadcast Journalism (sharing the documentary award with Ken Burns’ The Civil War series). The film received two national prime-time broadcasts on P.B.S. A 25th-anniversary edition of the film, revised and remastered will be released in 2014. Sauvage’s 2013 documentary Not Idly By—Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust, won the Best Documentary Award at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival. The film provides the challenging and eloquent testimony of Peter Bergson, a

  • Facing History 101: A Workshop for Educators (preregistration required) 4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Designed and led by Fran Sterling, Senior Research and Development Associate for Facing History and

    Miller, Artistic Director of Music of Remembrance The Chris Knutzen Room (Anderson University Center) The Current Crisis: The Dehumanization of Refugee Children in the U.S. 3:45p.m. – 5:00 p.m. In 2014, thousands of children made the dangerous trek from Central America to the U.S., traveling without adult family members and facing violence, exploitation, and sexual assault. How was their plight described in various U.S. commentaries and why were these children not welcomed as refugees? This panel

  • Mission: The Powell-Heller Holocaust Education Conference at Pacific Lutheran University teaches the history and the lessons of the Holocaust to students and educators throughout the Pacific

    prestigious DuPont-Columbia Award in Broadcast Journalism (sharing the documentary award with Ken Burns’ The Civil War series). The film received two national prime-time broadcasts on P.B.S. A 25th-anniversary edition of the film, revised and remastered will be released in 2014. Sauvage’s 2013 documentary Not Idly By—Peter Bergson, America and the Holocaust, won the Best Documentary Award at the Toronto Jewish Film Festival. The film provides the challenging and eloquent testimony of Peter Bergson, a