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  • Knutson Lecture

    Bloomington, CA. Oord taught philosophy at Eastern Nazarene College for three years. In 2002, he returned to the Northwest to teach at his undergraduate alma mater. He taught at Northwest Nazarene University for sixteen years. He is a leading theologian in the Wesleyan, Holiness, and Church of the Nazarene traditions. Oord now directs doctoral programs in Open and Relational Theology at Northwind Theological Seminary. He lectures and teaches at other institutions around the globe. Oord is an ordained

  • Amy Young and Justin Eckstein published two pieces in the February 2015 edition of Communication & Critical/Cultural studies, one of the top journals in the communication field, and the articles are quite tasty. The duo has put together a special forum on rhetoric and food.…

    explore how the Public Chef Intellectual enacts change. One answer is taste. “Our next piece, entitled ‘Taste Makers’ (in preparation for the 2015 National Communication Association conference) examines how chef’s recruit the palette into political projects, such as teaching people that locally sourced food tastes better,” explains Eckstein. “If people develop a taste for this style of food, then it anticipates choices.” PLU students can view the full articles online. They have access to the journal

  • Following their participation in an Inclusive Pedagogy Seminar, faculty will be eligible to be part of an Inclusive Curriculum Workshop.

    Shannon Seidel, Department of Biology Roberto Arteago, Library Laura Fitzwater Gonzales, Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice Teresa Ciabattari, Department of Sociology & Criminal Justice 2021 Cohort Amanda Sweger, Department of Theatre and Dance Michael Artime, Department of Political Science Somaye Ramezanpour Nargesi, School of Business Ami Shah, Department of Anthropology, and Global Studies Program 2020 Cohort Mary Ellard-Ivey, Department of Biology Christine Moeller, Library Claire Todd

  • As a Latino Studies minor at PLU you will become part of an interdisciplinary learning community committed to intellectual inquiry around pressing issues of race, identity, gender, social class,

    Rican Movements aimed to combat the structural racism that disenfranchised these communities through political and educational reforms, such as labor laws, voting rights and the institutionalization of ethnic studies programs, and cultural movements, including literary production and a wide array of visual arts. Latino Studies programs share the vision, theories and praxis of these movements, but broaden the field beyond the examination of the Puerto Rican and Mexican-American experience. The

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 10, 2015)—A task force of Pacific Lutheran University students held an open forum on Feb. 9 to discuss an agenda regarding students’ positions on proposed bills in the Washington State Legislature. The task force presented the results of a survey sent to…

    about their political interests and issues the student body should advocate. The task force—Dan Stell ’15, Carly Brook ’15, Katerina Volosevych ’17, Caitlin Dawes ’16, Anne-Marie Falloria ’15 and Naomi Bess ’15—then selected one area of interest popular among the 308 students who responded to the survey and found corroborating bills that might be of interest to students. The popular areas of interest include environmental legislation, healthcare, wellness/community health, tax reform, higher

  • The Common Reading Selection Committee is delighted to announce that for the 2018-2019 FYEP Common Reading, we will revisit Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates . The text, drawing from an autobiographical account of the author’s youth, is written in the form of…

    lecture for first-year students and a symposium through the Wang Center. Published in 2015, the awards won by the author for Between the World and Me include the 2015 National Book Award for Nonfiction and the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work. It was also a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. The committee would like to continue to highlight the following themes in Between the World and Me: 1. Constructions of race: the social, political, economic and cultural

  • GSRS 287: Reproductive Justice (Prof. Jenny James) This interdisciplinary course provides an intensive introduction to reproductive justice in the U.S.

    sources, the course looks closely, also, at their conditions of emergence, namely socio political and economic contexts for each country. Prerequisite: HISP 325. SOCI 210: Gender and Society (Prof. Teresa Ciabattari) Description: An examination of gender as a social construction and a system of stratification. Focus is on the structural aspects of gender and upon the intersection of gender with other social categories, such as race, class, and sexuality.Fall 2022 Critical Race Studies (CRS

  • PLU Student Selected for Prestigious National Council Nellie Moran ’15 has been selected as 1 of 10 “campus women to watch out for” on the National Student Advisory Council. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Nellie Moran ’15 is one of ’10 Campus Women to Watch Out For’…

    October 19, 2014 PLU Student Selected for Prestigious National Council Nellie Moran ’15 has been selected as 1 of 10 “campus women to watch out for” on the National Student Advisory Council. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Nellie Moran ’15 is one of ’10 Campus Women to Watch Out For’ By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, Wash. (Oct. 20, 2014)—Nellie Moran ’15 already has built an amazingly impressive résumé of leadership roles and national political connections—and now

  • By Zach Powers PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, Wash. (Dec. 8, 2014)—On Wednesday, Dec. 3, Pacific Lutheran University students, staff and faculty gathered in the Anderson University Center for the latest installment of Sex +, a yearlong campus series addressing the growing need for positive…

    conversations concerning sex, gender and sexuality. (Listen to the full lecture below.) PLU Assistant Professor of Political Science Kaitlyn Sill led students in a robust examination of California’s recently passed affirmative consent law. The new policy will fundamentally shift the protocol and standards used by the state’s college campuses to prevent and investigate sexual assault. It also stands to challenge long-held national paradigms concerning domestic violence. Commonly referred to as “yes means yes

  • When Jordan Levy first visited Honduras in high school, he had no idea that someday he’d be serving as an expert witness on Honduras in the U.S. court system. He first visited the Central American nation to perform volunteer work, and then returned annually throughout…

    essential. His declaration on the unique vulnerabilities faced by Honduran school-age children abandoned by their families was cited nearly 50 times in the most recent lawyers’ court briefing. “I view my role as not judging the credibility of the claim,” he says, “but as putting the claim in a broader historical and political context. The lawyers know about immigration law but not Honduran society. Researchers can fill in a valuable knowledge gap.” Young men–especially those of indigenous descent–face a