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  • TACOMA, WASH. (Aug. 15, 2018) — Hannah Park ’20, an English major at Pacific Lutheran University, is used to translating. The youngest of her siblings, Park says she naturally fell into the role once she was the only one home with her Korean mother, who…

    practice.” Park hopes STARTALK continues to expand. Her goal is to be the youngest person to become certificated through the program. Yaden is optimistic STARTALK funding is here to stay. Every year, a governmental group performs a site visit to audit the program. The group interviews the teachers enrolled and observes classes. “We got a glowing review,” Yaden said of the recent visit. Last year was no different. Leaders in the program said the 2017 report was “one of the best” since the partnership

  • OLYMPIA, WASH. (Nov. 22, 2019) — When asked the simple question “What’s an average week at work like for you?” Justin Kjolseth ’10 doesn’t have a clear answer. “It varies,” they say. “There really is no average work week for me.” Kjolseth isn’t dodging the…

    , they’re just being honest. An assistant attorney general for Washington state, there’s no predicting the cases and conundrums that will land on Kjolseth’s desk. That’s part of the reason they love their job. What does your practice at the Washington State Attorney General’s Office include? I work in the education division at the Attorney General’s office, so my practice includes both K-12 and higher education law. I am general counsel to a couple of technical colleges and the Workforce Training and

  • Preparing for law school can be a complex process without the right help.  The resources within these pages can help you prepare for law school, no matter what your year, and set yourself up to have

    , and social sciences regardless of their major. What don't law schools want you to take? Law schools don’t necessarily like students whose undergraduate curriculums focus on learning the law.  The purpose of law school is to learn the theory and practice of law, so the schools do not expect you to already know the material before you arrive. Thus, you do not need to take every class with “law” in the title. If a class seems interesting, then you should take it to learn the content but not to

  • Dr. Marit Trelstad, PLU Chair of Lutheran Studies 

    accounts in Hebrew Scriptures, to the Psalter, to the stories of Jesus and the disciples, and continuing throughout history, the People of God have sung.  Each era of time, each place on earth, has left a remnant of song in the sung repertoire of the church, a remnant which provides a glimpse into the practice and theology of each era and place. The Reformation initiated by Martin Luther marked a new direction in the church’s song, spurring a new wave of creativity that continues today across the whole

  • The 2024 High School Programming Contest has been canceled.

    . The top three teams in each division receive medals and the top team overall will receive a trophy engraved with their names and the name of their school. The winning team will retain the trophy for one year to display at their school. All students are eligible for prizes in a drawing at the end of the awards ceremony. Team Patronus Programming hard at work. Contest Schedule 9:30-10:00 – Team Check In 10:00-10:30  – Orientation / Instructions 10:30-11:00 – Practice Session 11:00-11:30 – Debriefing

  • Link to Geologic Field Experience

    paths, including: Elementary Educator Environmental Geologist Engineering Technician Hydrology Technician Outreach Coordinator, and many more! Use PLU’s Career Services site to network with fellow Lutes, get feedback on your professional documents, and search for opportunities!Licensed Geologist How to become a licensed geologist in Washington State As with many fields, the state of Washington and many other states require that professional geologists be licensed in order to assure that the practice

  • Associate Professor of Education | School of Education | kimck@plu.edu | 253-535-7775 | Dr.

    and teaches math, science, technology integration, educational psychology, and multicultural education courses. Publications include a chapter for an American Educational Research Association (AERA) special interest group on Community Engaged Learning (CEL) and the application of ideation to deepening teacher technology integration in the Journal of Higher Education Theory and Practice. She works with universities across the state in NextGen-WA [NSF grant, Next Generation of STEM Teacher

  • Poetry | MFA in Creative Writing - Low Residency | Jennifer Elise Foerster is the author of three books of poetry, Leaving Tulsa (2013), Bright Raft in the Afterweather (2018), and The Maybe-Bird (2022), and served as the Associate Editor of When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry. She is the recipient of a NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, a Hermitage Artist Retreat Fellowship, and was a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford.

    strengths and weaknesses both as points of departure. I don’t believe art is made by getting comfortable in a voice or style. If poetry is going to be a life-long endeavor, we must practice becoming comfortable with its surprises and its failures, and, most of all, being excited by its questions.”

  • Photo by John Froschauer Dr. Nathaniel Schlicher ’00 The need to ‘care for the whole patient’ By Chris Albert To say Nathaniel Schlicher ’00 was born to be a doctor is not much of an over statement. “I got the bug early,” he said. “It…

    ,” he said. “I wanted to care for the whole patient.” So, he applied to law school, earning his J.D. before getting his M.D. The two degrees have allowed him to work not only clinically, but on an administrative level helping to shape patient care policies. “It’s been a great way to mix the two,” Schlicher said. The ER isn’t for everyone. “You have to enjoy the day-to-day practice of caring,” he said. “You have to bring that Christian ethos to it that at times is challenging.”   Read how Dr

  • MFT alum, and professor receive the Anselm Strauss Award Jennifer Davis – ’07 PLU MFT graduate, David Ward – MFT program director and associate professor, and Cheryl Storm – PLU professor emeritus received the 2012 Anselm Strauss Award for their published article “The Unsilencing of…

    National Council on Family Relations (NCFR). Each year, the committee recognizes authors of a qualitative journal article or book chapter published during the previous year which, in the estimation of the members of the committee, makes the most significant contribution to the area of family theory, methods, and/or research that comes from qualitative tradition. The award is named for Anslem Strauss, whose life work was to develop and practice qualitative methodologies. The NCFR is the nation’s premier