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Message from the School of Nursing DeanDear Students, Alumni, Staff, Faculty, and Friends of Nursing: It is my pleasure to welcome you to the Pacific Lutheran University School of Nursing. You are joining a nursing school with a long history of educational excellence and service in the Pacific Northwest. The PLU School of Nursing promotes the health and well-being of individuals, families, and communities through education, scholarship and service. Our core values of inquiry, service

Culture of Teamwork and Respect The PLU SoN is committed to actively cultivating teamwork and collaboration among faculty, and promoting safe and respectful environments to ensure equitable opportunities for all students, faculty, and staff to learn and work at optimal capacity. Learning environments, structures, systems, policies, and procedures are based on fostering a positive and productive culture of meaningful, collaborative relationships. Contributions to collaborative, accountable

AppreciationsCharles Bergman, Department of EnglishThomas Campbell, Department of EnglishBarbara Temple-Thurston, Department of EnglishCharles Bergman, Department of EnglishCharles Bergman: A Most Adventurous Professor Dr. Charles Bergman begins his phased retirement in Summer 2015 after thirty-eight unusually interesting and accomplished years at PLU.  His teaching, leadership, and writing have garnered the highest recognition from within and without the university.  The true measure of his

Why Study Global & Cultural Studies at PLU? English will continue to grow as a global language, but the disadvantage of being an English-only speaker will grow as well: the world is becoming increasingly multi-lingual. Studying a foreign language may be a strategic – or even necessary – choice in bringing your “wild hopes and big dreams” onto the world stage. Learning to navigate a complex and global world requires a complex and global set of skills. Our programs aim to do more than enable you

in other cultures and allow them to examine the complexity of global issues from other local, national and regional perspectives. However, not all PLU students are able to take advantage of these study away programs. Even with 50 percent of every PLU graduating class participating in a study away program for a month or more (the national average is under 3 percent) it means nearly 50 percent do not. For these students we need to bring the world to them and the campus, and the symposia are part of

Physical & Psychological Expectations of Nursing StudentsTo be admitted to and progress in the Pacific Lutheran University School of Nursing, a student must be aware of and meet the requirements identified in the following description of work performance of practicing nursing professionals. Title: Baccalaureate Nursing Student (also applies to Entry-Level MSN students) Work Hours: Varies with shifts and setting and includes 12-hour shifts, (plus travel to clinical sites throughout the Puget

Thinking About Messy War My recent book, The Warrior, Military Ethics and Contemporary Warfare: Achilles Goes Asymmetrical, represents my scholarly inquiry around military ethics and non-conventional warfare over the last fifteen years, in which I have explored questions like: What is a warrior and how is that different from a soldier? What are the rules and moral principles that our military ought to follow in war? How does the changing nature of warfare impact these rules? How do we train and

The University’s mission is to “educate students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, leadership, service, and care—for other people, for their communities, and for the earth.” Emerging from the University’s Lutheran heritage, our mission emphasizes both freedom of inquiry and a life engaged in the world. Our location in the Pacific Northwest, and our commitment to educate students for the complexities of life in the 21st century, also shape the University’s educational identity. The University

Overview of the Critical Race Studies MinorIn 2016, The Collective, a PLU student organization created by students of color and their allies, distributed a list of institutional priorities for curricular transformation, including the call for a path of undergraduate study dedicated to race. Over the next five years, faculty, staff and students affiliated with GSRS worked to respond to this demand. In 2020, GSRS introduced our Minor in Critical Race Studies. The CRS Minor offers an

Why Study Environmental Studies?Learning about the environment offers opportunities to integrate studies of nature and natural systems with those of human systems, and to bring both into dialogue with a humanistic understanding of ideas and values. Environmental studies also offer tools and knowledge with which to respond to many of the greatest challenges facing humanity in the coming century. We live in an increasingly endangered and altered world: plants and animals are driven to extinction