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  • In recognition of the 500th anniversary of the Lutheran reformation, throughout the 2016-17 academic year a wide range of academic, community and artistic events at Pacific Lutheran University will address questions and concepts relating to Re•forming. UPCOMING EVENTS Second Annual César Chávez & Dolores Huerta…

    , who oversees Pierce County Elections and a wide variety of other local government services, will be visiting Associate Professor of Politics and Government Kaitlyn Sill’s course on American government. All PLU students are welcome to attend the course for this Q&A discussion. Sponsored by the Department of Politics and Government. The Saint John’s Bible Exhibit Opening Sept. 15 | 4 p.m. | Mortvedt Library Suzanne Moore, a contributor to the Bible, will present on “Dynamic Collaboration: One

  • High school choir and guitar teacher Alonso Brizuela ’14 was in Spokane at a national choral directors conference in mid-March of 2020. Just a day and half days into events, the conference shut down early—due to a mysterious new illness that had arrived in the…

    managing pandemic’s difficulties. Brizuela encouraged camaraderie and community among the high school students, which he learned from PLU’s conductors, such as Richard Nance, Brian Galante and Barry Johnson. He says the differences between online or in-person work aren’t as stark, as long as you can fuel the necessary group dynamic familiar to many musicians. For Zwang, PLU’s rigorous education major reinforced the importance of the human. “The child is a human before a student, the parent is a human

  • We feel honored to introduce our Alumni of Color Supervisor Scholarship Recipients: 

    choice include emotion focused and solution focused therapy. I continue to work with under-represented and marginalized communities and provide services for many Spanish speaking and low-income families. My two greatest values are family and education. I enjoy volunteering my time on the Hispanic Academic Achievers Program (HAAP) scholarship committee. My self-care activities include dancing with my two children and partner, scrapbooking, and watching series on Netflix. Ireri Kang, LMFTA recipient of

  • Center Stage: The $20 million Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts officially opens in October By Steve Hansen Jeff Clapp ’89, PLU artistic director of theater, PLU theater program undergraduate, son of a theater professor, likes to tell a story of his tenure…

    school,” she said of her upcoming production. “It is quite a gift to let a student use the mainstage for a performance. At most schools, that does not happen.” Schultz has selected “In the Garden of Live Flowers” by Attilio Favorini and Lynne Conner, a drama inspired by the life of environmentalist Rachel Carson and the writing of her groundbreaking book, “Silent Spring.” In making this ambitious choice, Schultz said she was looking to select a play that would make the audience both laugh and cry

  • The School of Nursing Student Rights and Responsibilities defined below support the Student Rights and Responsibilities as defined in the Pacific Lutheran University’s Student Code of Conduct.

    Student Rights and Responsibilities defined below support the Student Rights and Responsibilities as defined in the Pacific Lutheran University’s Student Code of Conduct. General Principles – All students have a right to: a safe, supportive, respectful, and professional learning environment that is free from discrimination and accepting of individuals for who they are regardless of cultural/ethnic affiliation, spiritual affiliation, political affiliation, or any other personal characteristic, choice

  • PLU's mission is reflected in teaching and learning excellence in the Division of Humanities. We celebrate the accomplishments and hard work of our students who have gone on to conduct lives of

    year (or three).” There will be no gap year for Molly Lindberg (Class of 2017; Majors: French and Global Studies; Minor: Classical Studies): “I am grateful and relieved,” she confides, to have been accepted to French Ph.D. programs at Northwestern and Columbia. “But I dread the question, ‘where are you going?,’” because she hasn’t made her decision yet. Plus, “making a choice also means accepting that I am going to leave PLU, where I have found such wonderful friends and professors.” We certainly

  • A First Decade of International Activities When on September 11, 2001, the U.S suffered the worst terrorist attack in its history, Dr. Peter C. C.

    of the program of the Wang Foundation on Chinese college students’ career choice and views towards life in the article titled, “China Boosts Rural Education”. In the same year, the Poverty Alleviation Office of Education of Tsinghua University published a Summary of the Wang Foundation’s work in Service Learning and Poverty Alleviation for which the British prediction guru and philanthropist James Martin wrote the preface giving high praise to Dr. Wang and the contributions he has made to poverty

  • The PLU Psychology colloquium series aims to provide PLU students, faculty and staff rich, meaningful exposure to the state of the art in research in psychology.

    violence, victimization, and safety in middle and high schools"Department of Psychology, Pacific Lutheran University November 13, 2019Joseph McFall, Ph.D. "Multilevel Modeling, a Basic Introduction using the EAMMi2 (Emerging Adulthood Measured at Multiple Institutions 2)"State University of New York, Fredonia October 18, 2019Amanda Elbassiouny"What Are the Differences in the Impact of Religious and Moral Identity Priming on the Evaluation of Religious Ingroup and Outgroup Job Applicants?"California

  • Students are encouraged to do research with a faculty member during their undergraduate experience at PLU.

    promoting speciation in North American Red Crossbills. My work has centered on a newly discovered population of crossbills in the South Hills, Idaho where in the absence of squirrels, crossbills and lodgepole pine have coevolved. This has resulted in divergent selection between crossbills in the South Hills and the Rocky Mountains. My work shows that mate choice is highly assortative in the South Hills, indicating that reproductive isolation is evolving between these recently diverged populations

  • Any faculty member who feels that they have cause for grievance and who wants to formally resolve that grievance petition either the Conciliation Committee or the University Dispute Resolution

    against them or asserts that the charges do not support a finding of adequate cause, the hearing tribunal will evaluate all available evidence and rest its recommendation upon the evidence in the record. The Hearing Committee, in consultation with the president and the faculty member, will exercise its judgment as to whether the hearing should be public or private. During the proceedings the faculty member will be permitted to have an academic advisor and counsel of their own choice. At the request of