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FACULTY CONSTITUTIONPREAMBLEWe, the faculty of Pacific Lutheran University, acting under the authority and responsibilities delegated by the Board of Regents, cognizant of our professional responsibility to provide for the education of our students, and in order to define the qualifications and duties, privileges and obligations pertaining thereto; to establish a system of faculty governance; to prescribe the powers of the faculty in educational policy; to advise in educational fiscal policy

PLU Awards and Grants for FacultyThere are various internal awards and grants at PLU available for PLU faculty to support teaching, scholarship and other innovative ideas. The details for each can be found at the links below.Office of the PresidentCarol Sheffels Quigg AwardThe Carol Sheffels Quigg Award for Excellence and Innovation provides support for faculty, staff and students at Pacific Lutheran University who demonstrate unusually inventive, original and creative approaches to advance the

Support for Blended and Online TeachingThis page highlights available resources and tools to help faculty develop their courses in a blended format (online & face-to-face). Blended courses at PLU include a balanced mix of onsite and online learning elements and online courses at PLU are delivered without campus meetings.PLUTO+The PLUTO+ program supports faculty in strengthening knowledge and skills for effective online and blended teaching.Learn MoreResources from Faculty PeersFaculty

1. Program Overviewa. Purpose: The University’s Purchasing Card (P-Card) program is a fast, flexible purchasing tool, which offers an alternative to regular university purchasing processes and provides an efficient and effective method to purchase supplies, travel-related expenses, conference registrations, etc. b. Benefits: Departments save time and effort by tracking their spending through the Bank of America online system, Works. The P-Card program is more cost effective than issuing a paper

Adobe Acrobat and Creative Cloud Licensing at PLU Available Licensing: Adobe Acrobat: Adobe Acrobat is an application that is a part of the Adobe suite of applications and allows users to view, create, manipulate, print and manage PDF (Portable Document Format) files. All current PLU faculty and staff are eligible to download and install the current version of Adobe Acrobat Pro both on PLU owned and personal devices. You must put in a request at helpdesk.plu.edu to have the license added to

Getting Support for Computers and SoftwareIf you are having problems with a University owned computer and need assistance with either hardware or software, you can place a work order at helpdesk.plu.edu, contact us at 253-535-7525, or email us at helpdesk@plu.edu.  Additional support information is listed below.Software SupportSoftware support at PLU is limited to the list of University supported software. We are unable to provide assistance for all software applications due to limitations with

3.6.1 Third Party Access and Business Agreements Non-PLU parties (also known as vendors) may have access to or take possession of confidential PLU data only upon contractual agreement (commonly using the PLU Data Sharing Agreement) between the vendor and the university. Such agreements must specify the data to be accessed or transferred, how vendor (e.g. Ellucian, CBORD) access will be limited to this data alone or how only this data will be transferred to the vendor, the vendor’s security

These mobile device and remote storage policies apply to any external or portable media (e.g. external hard drives, laptop computers, thumb/flash drives, smartphones, tablets, etc.) on which university data is stored or transported. They also apply to any cloud or hosted service (e.g. Google Apps for Education, PeopleAdmin) in which university data is used or stored. 3.7.1 Mobile Devices All mobile devices, whether university- or personally-owned, must be used in compliance with PLU policies