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  • means you’re always looking for efficiencies and creative ways to bring ideas to fruition, or ways to rethink what has been stagnant or has fallen behind modernizations.” -Ardys Curtis ’86 PLU Chief Information Officer “Innovators are those who take risks and chances wherever they are. As individuals, we must self-reflect to identify new and creative solutions within any environment. We must be brave enough to push past the confines of our expectations in order to find new solutions to pre-existing

  • .], Portland OR ((2019, November)) ACPA Annual Convention, Flourish and flow: Cultivating creative mindfulness to support student success [Conference session; co-presented with Avery, L., & Rodgers, M.], Houston, TX ((2018, March)) NASPA Annual Conference, Flourish and flow: Cultivating creative mindfulness to support student success [Conference session; co-presented with Avery, L., & Rodgers, M.], Philadelphia, PA ((2018, March)) ACUHO-I Annual Conference and Exposition, Thriving at Pacific Lutheran

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  • Public health concerns update Dear PLU Community, We are writing today to provide you with a follow up to the communication that you received on July 29, 2022. In that communication, we outlined fall protocols for both COVID-19 and MPX (previously referred to as Monkeypox). Now that more detailed… August 23, 2022

  • force them to tackle difficult material.  Law school will push you intellectually, so you will benefit from being in such environments as often as possible. Law school requires intensive writing, reading, and critical thinking, so students should seek writing intensive courses, courses that require extensive reading of material that is difficult to navigate (such as literature, philosophy, or law), and classes that push you to critically evaluate your beliefs and assumptions.  The more classes of

  • Missoula Writing Collaborative, teaching classes on short story writing in high schools, and the 406 writing workshop.  For many years he worked as a fishing guide on the Smith River and raised cattle on his family farm in Wisconsin. Mentor. Workshops and classes in fiction. Statement: “My success in the publishing world is limited, but my success as a writer has been boundless.  Every book I have written has taken me on an adventure I would have thought impossible beforehand. I am a middle-aged man

  • Stan Sanvel Rubin Founding Director Biography Biography Stan Sanvel Rubin is founding director of the Rainier Writing Workshop at PLU.  He served for over twenty years as Director of the Brockport Writers Forum and Videotape Library (SUNY), a multi-faceted literary arts program.  He holds the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.  His most recent book of poetry is There. Here. (Lost Horse Press, 2013).  Other books include The Post-Confessionals, a collection of his interviews

  • Citation and DocumentationAcross academic fields, citation and documentation is a fundamental element of academic writing. As so much of academic work is built on the ideas of others, citation and documentation serves as a system of representing this “conversation” by clearly displaying which ideas were contributed by others and which ideas are original to the writer. Furthermore, citation and documentation styles (like MLA or Chicago) allow readers to find information about sources in easy

  • graduate of PLU in ’72, his career path has led him through various teaching jobs as well as art and design studios. He returned to PLU to teach in 2000, and many of his students have since moved on to their own creative and teaching careers. A quote that describes his outlook is in Henry Glassie’s 1999 book The Potter’s Art (Indiana University Press): “It is good to be a potter. At work, the potter manages the transformation of nature, building culture while fulfilling the self, serving society and

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  • On September 12, 2019, the 2019-20 Cohort of the American Business Culture Program took a tour of downtown Tacoma, visiting the Farmer’s Market, taking the bus and light rail for the first time, and learning a little about the city. They were then split into three teams and given a list of 8 categories, with the directions to take 1 photo for each category. The team with the most fun and creative photos would win a rice maker. A group of PLU staff, ABC Program instructors, and student workers

  • being creative through crochet, painting, sewing, jewelry making, and so many other mediums! I am very passionate about therapy because I have witnessed and experienced firsthand the power of sharing with others who will listen. One of the greatest gifts we can give ourselves is validation: of both our thoughts and feelings. Taking the time out of your day to speak with someone about how you’re feeling validates for your brain and your body that your concerns are worthy of being vocalized. I am so