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grad school with that goal in mind. I was a non-traditional student, going back several years after completing my bachelor’s degree. I received grants through my graduate school department and the US Department of Education. I participated in a postdoctoral fellowship that’s specific for teaching scientists to be better educators. When I finished my PhD, I went into that fellowship program. And now I’m excited to be here at PLU, focused on these three core elements of teaching, increasing
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Harbor with his partner, Anna-sara Home, and their six children. Debbie Cafazzo Ohio native Debbie Cafazzo — the first member of her immediate family to graduate from college — attended Northern Kentucky University on an academic scholarship. She’s been writing about kids and education for most of her career. Following nearly 25 years as a reporter for The News Tribune in Tacoma, she moved to Tacoma Public Schools, where she currently works as technology communications coordinator. Karen Miller Karen
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The Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education provides support to faculty interested in developing community-engaged scholarship and teaching. Contact the Wang Center Executive Director, Tamara Williams, at williatr@plu.edu if you are interested in discussing CEL coursework.Faculty Quick Links CEL Course Design PDFDesign a CEL CourseWhat is CEL?At PLU, Community Engaged Learning (CEL) is a pedagogical model that incorporates classroom learning with local engagement with community
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resources!The Experience of COVID 19 in PLU's Gateway LocationsCheck out this panel discussion from International Education Week at PLU, featuring representatives from all of the Wang Center’s Gateway locations!
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include a number of different groups, including atheists, nontheists, deists, and freethinkers, although there is some disagreement about who should fall under the humanist umbrella. Major Values: Reason, compassion, hope Major sects in the US: Religious humanists, secular humanists To learn more: https://americanhumanist.org/ https://pluralism.org/humanism-as-a-belief-system Books available at the PLU library: Humanist Journal Education and Humanism Linking Autonomy and Humanity, edited by Wiel
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crossover events from bats into horses, pigs, or humans may occur annually. Nipah virus is classified as BSL4 pathogens as it has mortality rates between 40-100% and currently have no approved antivirals drugs or vaccines for humans. Currently, scientists must rely heavily on serology samples from both humans and bats to establish areas of outbreaks and prior infections. Scientific outreach and education, therefore, remains one of the main ways to combat such spillover events. Programs, such as the
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primera generación: Un análisis chicana feminista de I’m Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter de Érika Sánchez/ The Challenges of “Familismo” and Traditional Gender Roles for First General College Students: A Chicana Feminist Analysis of I’m Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Érika Sánchez When we think about the challenges faced by Latine youth when it comes to higher education, we tend to think about economic struggles. Although this is a common struggle for many first-generation students, Latine
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, Kamal holds multiple cultures between her fingers while maintaining their distinctions. The novel’s epigraph signals the tapestry Kamal weaves and unweaves through her writing. First, an 1813 letter from Austen to her sister, Cassandra about her feeling that Pride & Prejudice would benefit from “something unconnected to the story” to ground it; second, Thomas Babington Macaulay’s 1835 “Minute on Education” in which he claims that “a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native
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. While at PLU I majored in communications with an emphasis in public relations and advertising and a minor in Religion. At the Red Cross I also help to plan and coordinate fundraisers, promote events, and work as a liaison with media. Volunteering at our home church in Norway, I am coordinating a trip to Israel, and work with media. My education at PLU has been so helpful. It’s opened doors and helped me utilize my skill set in a new country. Read Previous A generous couple Read Next Hebrew Idol
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in the eco-ministry field, facilitating spiritual and religious action on environmental and climate justice. It doesn’t just rely on religious foundations, however. The center engages secular and faith-based environmental leaders for education, outreach, support, and action. CEE is creating “incredible spaces where people from all walks of life come together for problems and solutions, while cultivating beauty and a sense of community,” he says. “It keeps me coming back to embrace the struggle
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