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and Polar Regions collection and how that work turned into a book of poems. She is the winner of a Rasmuson Foundation grant, and teaches AP English at Lathrop High School. Peggy Shumaker, reading from Marjorie Kowalski Cole’s The City Beneath the Snow Shumaker will give voice to excerpts from Cole’s last book, published posthumously. This final collection of stories from an award-winning writer offers portraits of contemporary Alaskans. Some readers will know Cole’s novel Correcting the Landscape

this is her fifth year in the profession. “I learned about really becoming a good writer at PLU. I had some really good professors who really pushed me,” Hanson said. While at PLU, Hanson studied English Language Arts. This prepared her well for the National Board Certification, she said. “The content part was not hard, and it was not hard because I had that content background.” To teach in Washington, applicants must complete a bachelor’s degree, acquire teaching credentials and pass numerous

Education program. PLU’s undergraduate and graduate programs offer several paths for students, including an Alternative Routes program, which enables students from different majors—such as English— to work toward becoming a certified teacher. Master’s of Education student Kim Ellithorpe ’15 thinks she made a great choice in choosing her program. “The instructors at PLU have lived education; they have educated others, adults and children alike, and continue to learn themselves,” she said. “Their passion

on decades of research,” said PLU President Thomas W. Krise. “PLU is lucky to have Terry’s extensive experience developing systems that turned around academic performance in struggling schools across the state and improved capacity of districts with academic problems.” Bergeson earned a B.A. in English from Emmanuel College in Boston in 1964; an M.A. in Counseling and Guidance from Western Michigan University in 1969; and a Ph.D. in Education from the University of Washington in 1982. “I am proud

, Tahoma’s got everything any hungry college student could want for a study-break snack. Tahoma also serves up an excellent variety of breakfast foods to get Lutes good and ready to face a day of conquering classes. My go-to choice is the classic sausage, egg and cheese breakfast sandwich, which features a hot sausage patty, fluffy egg and melted cheese wedged between two English muffins. The sausage, egg and cheese sandwich is simple and delicious, but those who like a little spice in their breakfast

career, but to study what I love,” she says. That advice led her from a PLU degree in English (with emphasis in writing) and art, to a master’s degree in art education at the University of Alabama, where her dad was a professor. She worked teaching art for a children’s museum in upstate New York, followed by a job editing, writing and doing graphic design at a small publishing company there. She was a freelance editor and designer, but found her niche in public education, working in communications

workloads are distributed between academic administrators and professional staff, and exploring interconnections between the programs forming each new college to see where curricular or other opportunities might be possible. PLU's Four Academic CollegesCollege of Health ProfessionsKinesiology Marriage and Family Therapy Nursing Social WorkCollege of Liberal StudiesAnthropology Chinese Studies Economics English Gender, Sexuality and Race Studies Global Studies History Holocaust & Genocide Studies