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intensity of the one year cohort model for the MAE degree means that our graduate students form tight bonds of community with one another and push each other to love and excel in the teaching field. Tip: Passionate about the sphere of education? Download PLU’s resource: How to Become A Teacher – A Guide to Teaching in Washington State. Download free ebookIf you’re thinking about securing a career in the critical field of education, then we invite you to meet four of our alumni and discover why they

my interview process. It felt very family and community oriented. Everybody I spoke to in the interview process was genuine and kind, and they seemed to really care about me as a person, not just another applicant. It felt similar to PLU in that way, and I had a really good educational experience at PLU. I enjoyed learning at a small school and I learned that I really thrive in an environment where I have more access to my professors and mentors, because I like to ask lots of questions. PNWU just

if we could do a real exchange.” And thus, a “real” exchange was implemented. The Trinidadian students would live with the PLU students, take courses alongside them, be immersed in the cultural life of the islands and complete a service-learning project. At the semester’s conclusion, the most promising student would receive a four-year scholarship to PLU, funded jointly by PLU and Trinidad’s Ministry of Community Development, Culture and Gender Affairs. Hughes jumped at the chance. “I learned

return to southern Africa and to fully immerse myself into a new community and culture,” Meyer said. Matthew Anderson – English teaching assistant in Germany Anderson pursued a fellowship as a teaching assistant in Germany because of a love learning and excitement to share what he’s learned about himself, his culture and his country with eager young minds, as well as encourage them to engage in learning. “Right now, that is my passion,” he said, “and I think that this particular Fulbright Fellowship

fulfill a core mission: Building Lives of Service. And now, one project—along with one family and one innovative coming-together—is interpreting that “building” concept quite literally. In a first-time initiative that combines philanthropy, direct service and advocacy of Pierce County housing issues, PLU is partnering with Thrivent Financial for Lutherans and Tacoma/Pierce County Habitat for Humanity to build a home in The Woods at Golden Given, a sustainable-design community about a mile and a half

working with these talented women, who were selected because of their enormous potential and already proven ability.” Moran’s résumé is filled with examples of those, too. Her first experience in leadership came during her junior year of high school through the American Legion Auxiliary Girls State Program, and things just snowballed—and focused—from there. “I grew up in a small community in Montana, really tight-knit and very supportive, and I have always felt it necessary to give back and support

community.” As a high school senior on the Washington State National Association and Advancement of Colored People Youth Council, Chan carried her message far and wide. Her audiences included school board meetings, the Washington Education Association and classrooms of fourth-graders. PLU and Politics Chan chose PLU because she wanted a small, private institution that would allow her to know peers and students. She also fell in love with Stuen Residential Hall’s second floor, where students of color