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2017 Alumni Awards PLU Celebrates 500 Years of Re•forming Class Notes Class Notes Family and Friends Submit a Class Note Calendar Calendar Calendar Highlights Featured Stories Welcome Acting Provost Joanna Gregson discusses how PLU faculty members embrace their identity as teacher-scholars, and the value of “learning by doing” for students who engage in collaborative research opportunities. Read More Shaping Health Care PLU’s first doctoral program trains nurse practitioners for lives of leadership

Folk Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States Paul Freire Pedagogy of the Oppressed Frantz Fanon Black Skin, White Masks bell hooks Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope George Lipsitz The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics Audre Lorde Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches Tressie McMillan Cottom Thick and Other Essays Charles W. Mills The Racial Contract Leigh Patel Decolonizing Education Research. From Ownership to

Welcome Tamara Williams, executive director of the Wang Center for Global Education, discusses PLU’s holistic approach to global education and its role in an increasingly interconnected world amid conflict and uncertainty. Read More Oaxaca An undocumented PLU student shares her experience going back to Mexico —  for the first time since her family relocated to the United States —  as part of the Oaxaca Gateway program. She opens up about her identity struggle and the valuable lessons learned abroad

around Anacortes, Washington, and the San Juan Islands. She first connected with her tribe in 2003, but for a long time didn’t embrace all that came with her Native American identity. It wasn’t until a decade later, through her studies at Pacific Lutheran University, that Hall reconnected with the Samish on a deeper level. A class on myths, rituals and symbols with her mentor — Suzanne Crawford O’Brien, professor of religion and culture — got Hall thinking about her own culture more than ever before

Latino Studies LTST 241 : Introduction to Latino Studies - IT, GE This course introduces students to the range of issues and analytical approaches that form the foundation of Latino studies. By tracing the history of the “Latino/a/x” concept in relation to key elements of sociocultural life, such as time, space, migration, identity, class, race, gender, community, power, language, nation, and rights, students will develop understandings of the particular ways in which Latino studies takes shape

.” Still, the impact is there, Hambrick says. She describes microaggressions as “death by 1,000 papercuts.” “The intent doesn’t diminish the impact,” she said. Hambrick said microaggressions exist in all spaces on PLU’s campus, just as they do in all spaces off campus, most prominently around race and gender identity. For example, the refusal to use preferred pronouns when talking to transgender students. The silver lining at PLU is the university’s commitment to caring for others, Hambrick said. PLU

, college, national and international level, garnering recognition until her retirement from the sport in 2015. When Deines made a pivot from professional sports to the finance master’s program at Pacific Lutheran University, it was a bit of an adjustment. “Soccer came easy. I’ve always known it’s something I’m good at. But with finance I’ve had to work really hard to prove myself,” said Deines, who graduated last month with a Master of Science in Finance. “It was scary to go from soccer and my identity

have changed. While still performed at initiations, today the main significance of these ceremonies comes with the opportunity for communities to come together, celebrate, and communicate truths about gender, power and the past. They offer a chance for the Makonde to express, through ritual performance, the realities of their changing world and how that in turn affects their own identity (Bortolot). During initiation both girls and boys are taught how to make and perform with masks. Women however

changed. While still performed at initiations, today the main significance of these ceremonies comes with the opportunity for communities to come together, celebrate, and communicate truths about gender, power and the past. They offer a chance for the Makonde to express, through ritual performance, the realities of their changing world and how that in turn affects their own identity (Bortolot). During initiation both girls and boys are taught how to make and perform with masks. Women however, perform

changed. While still performed at initiations, today the main significance of these ceremonies comes with the opportunity for communities to come together, celebrate, and communicate truths about gender, power and the past. They offer a chance for the Makonde to express, through ritual performance, the realities of their changing world and how that in turn affects their own identity (Bortolot). During initiation both girls and boys are taught how to make and perform with masks. Women however, perform