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Sept. 20 | 5:30 p.m. | Garfield 208 An informal discussion among students, staff and faculty about how to listen critically and be an active citizen in the upcoming election. Sponsored by the PLU Diversity Center. Get Real! – Gender Equity Training for Relationships that are Empowering, Awake, and Loving Sept. 23-25 | All Day  Workshop that helps participants to shed negative gender conditioning and discover new forms of authentic relating that cultivate mutual trust, integrity, responsible

, but some in the Parkland community look to the university to do more. Others point out that PLU is the only private university in Washington in an unincorporated community. Most private universities in Washington state are in middle-income or affluent neighborhoods. Many of them, like Seattle Pacific and the University of Puget Sound, are in neighborhoods historically insulated from diversity by racist redlining practices. PLU is an exception. “PLU wouldn’t be PLU if it were anywhere else,” Belton

academic year. It’s distinctive to PLU and characteristic of our collaborative, generous, and spirited culture. That culture is a product of all of the diversity of talents in this room. It takes a wide variety of skills, abilities, outlooks, and world views to create the PLU experience for our students. Everyone in this room is a key player—the facilities and grounds keeping teams are the Department of First Impressions and they help us all have a magnificent and beautiful campus on which to work; our

century. What’s more, that self-awareness is light and bright and sparkling. Others note aspects of the distances between Persuasion and its original; I note an under-addressed aspect: some reviews mention the racial diversity of the cast, but virtually none take up in a sustained way the role of BIPOC actors and characters in the production—what they reveal about Austen’s day, what they reveal about our own, and the relationship between the two. Reviews invariably take up the issue of modernization

today, you have come together in this great PLU learning community from 32 different states, and 14 different countries.  Your membership represents the great diversity of the human family, religiously, ethnically, economically, five of you are only 20, and the oldest “real” graduate is 65, the oldest “honorary” grad is 66! You have done well at PLU!  Today, 222 of your number are graduating with academic honors, 48 of you have completed the International Honors program, dozens have participated in

family therapy, women’s and gender studies, Holocaust studies, global studies, biology and others, and are looking forward rich conversations with people from a diversity of disciplines. If along the way, we happen to encourage a sense of openness and adventure in individuals who might not otherwise take time to see a foreign film, this festival will have been success. Will every festival screening be following by some sort of discussion or event? Urdangarain: Yes, there will be an introduction

veteran to help combat PTSD should go to school.” Brass retired from the military in 2008, and came to PLU to continue his education that started with a physical therapy assistant degree. At PLU, Brass was involved with Kinesiology Club, the Diversity Center and the Special Olympics. He attended sporting events and Black Student Union events. “I just said, ‘I’m going to make this experience the best I can make it,’” Brass said. “And how else can you make it a good experience if you’re not involved

abroad in Scotland, I have developed and solidified my own values, as well as become a more global citizen — with a greater passion for issues of diversity and the world at large that will stay with me throughout my lifetime. As anyone who knows me, though, Rieke is my home. In that building, I gained the knowledge and laboratory experience I came here for, that helped with my graduate acceptance and will aid me in my future career. Some of my fondest memories of PLU are from doing summer research in

near Tacoma/Parkland with considerable resources. However, they also have a lot of diversity within their population and significant health care challenges.” Michael: “Can you tell us what part of the system you chose to research?” Marc: “I began my research with how court legislation changed the way that health care was delivered to many of the tribes in the U.S. in the 1970s. I then focused in on the Puyallup Tribe specifically, and how they created a new model for health care that became the

sprinkling of “liberal arts” courses and a single diversity or cross-cultural requirement, such as we presently have at PLU. Instead, she argues that it is meticulously designed liberal arts core programs with cross-cultural and global bases that attain this goal most successfully. A proud PLU student in Oxford, England, through the International Honors Program.  In her book, Nussbaum suggests to us at PLU that our journey toward preparing students for living lives of world citizenship has only begun