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  • Aminda Cheney-Irgens is a smart, driven, and globally-minded Pacific Lutheran University senior who, like her peers, spent her spring adjusting to a new way of doing college. She’s learned to record Zoom lessons, sharpened her Google Docs skills, and misses the real-life campus interactions. She’s…

    . She’s learned to record Zoom lessons, sharpened her Google Docs skills, and misses the real-life campus interactions. She’s also had to pass on accepting the prestigious Fulbright scholarship she was offered because coronavirus-related travel restrictions would delay her service as an English as a Second Language Assistant in Mexico, where she also planned a secondary study of the water quality. But Cheney-Irgens, who was raised in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and chose PLU for its beauty and

  • At PLU, we’re building up the next generation of Lutes — ones who will be called to lead us into an uncertain future. On Bjug Day you joined together in ensuring students are fully equipped to answer that call. Despite navigating a global pandemic, we…

    all along, but what has remained the same is the focus on the Clover Creek Watershed. As a result, we now have many years worth of data about Clover Creek, water quality, and environmental impacts. It’s a really significant contribution to our community. So the course includes geology, biology, and chemistry to do that work. And it’s also truly interdisciplinary, including units on philosophy, literature, ethics, and Native American studies. Students integrate these various fields–taught by guest

  • Awardees are nominated for their exceptional contributions, accomplishments, leadership and service to the university and its community members. Each December, during the university’s annual Christmas celebration, the President’s Council recognizes up to five employees for their outstanding contributions. Employees are nominated to the President’s Council…

    exceptional contributions, accomplishments, leadership and service to the university and its community members. Each December, during the university’s annual Christmas celebration, the President’s Council recognizes up to five employees for their outstanding contributions. Employees are nominated to the President’s Council by the PLU community for their improvements to customer service, quality of work and campus life, interdepartmental teamwork, communication, inclusivity and developing creative

  • “Department Sponsor” is the term used by the University to refer to the Department point of contact for purchases and/or Contracts with a vendor.

    PO to send to the vendor.Standard Purchases - $10,000-$99,999Informal competition is required for standard purchases of goods or services. The Department Sponsor is responsible for independently seeking written quotes for the purpose of validating the price and quality for reasonableness. Acceptable quotes include web searches, email communications, public product listing, etc. Department Sponsors must include quotes with requisition submissions and receive approval from the Procurement Office

  • After a rare heart condition cut her soccer career short, Shelby Daly ’13 found her calling as an athletic trainer.

    must live with due to ARVD, Daly said she is expected to have a normal quality of life. She can’t exercise like she did before, but she stays healthy by walking and doing yoga, and uses medication and her ICD to help manage the condition. She also has been proactive about learning more about it, starting with her capstone research at PLU. Daly began researching ARVD for her culminating undergraduate project – it’s an important disease for all athletic trainers to know about, she said – and

  • Scott graduated with a Bachelor of Musical Arts in Music (with a minor in English Literature) in 1991.

    wonderful opportunities to perform and tour as a musician during high school, Laura found herself looking to PLU as a place where she could continue to grow as a musician while earning a quality Liberal Arts education in other fields. At PLU, Laura studied with Svend Rønning and Korine Fujiwara, played in the University Symphony Orchestra, and was the principal second violinist of the Oxford University Philharmonia during her study away experience with PLU’s IHON-Oxford Program in the spring of 2015

  • INSTRUCTIONAL LEADERSHIP – With a focus on best practices for school leaders, candidates will learn how to support achievement of all students, evaluate instruction and lead learning.

    enact an aspirational vision of improvement that leverages the expertise of teachers to improve all students’ intellectual, social, and emotional growth. Fundamental to that skill set is the ability to differentiate between technical and adaptive change to implement an agenda that aligns both the technical aspects of school leadership, such as budgets and scheduling, with long-term cultural change, such as establishing and implementing organizational core values. These beliefs stem from a profound

  • In 1997, Brian Bannon was a PLU senior. An exemplary student, he wrote for The Mast, and was a double major researching social justice through the lens of queer rights movements. One afternoon, Bannon found himself in the office of history professor Beth Kraig, discussing…

    could have.” Bannon led a $200 million dollar capital improvement initiative to design, build, staff and open 24 new and renovated branch locations across the city. He understood that distinct areas like Chinatown, Mission District and Eureka Valley would benefit from different library programs and resources. Bannon directed a community input process where staff at each branch convened discussions with residents about what they wanted from their neighborhood library. The branch improvements resulted

  • The PLU School of Business is a community of compassionate faculty, staff, and administrators who provide an excellent business education in a student-centered learning environment grounded in the

    management applications through modeling tools including forecasting, resource allocation, capacity management, quality control, and materials requirement planning. Prerequisites: BUSA 201, STAT 231 and MATH 128 or 151 or higher. (4) BUSA 310 : Information Systems and Database Management Introduction to information technology and systems from a management perspective. Strategic use of technology and systems, and impacts on industry competition, corporate strategy, organization structure, and the firm's

  • Carol Sheffels Quigg Award for Excellence and Innovation Purpose: The Quigg Award provides support those who demonstrate unusually inventive, original, and creative approaches to advance the mission

    , and/or the enhancement of the applicant’s departmental curriculum or quality of classroom instruction. Priority consideration shall be given to qualified projects for which external funding is unlikely. Faculty members are, however, encouraged to articulate how they have and will leverage funding. All else being equal, Only the intrinsic merit of a project or activity, not its total costs, shall be primary and decisive. Proposals from tenure-track and tenured faculty are favored over those of