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TACOMA, WASH. (Nov. 10, 2015)- Throughout the week of Nov. 8-14 Pacific Lutheran University is hosting a trio of events celebrating and resourcing veterans and military service members. On Wednesday morning, the university will host a Veterans Day Celebration. On Saturday morning, it will host…
the Military Appreciation Football Game is free to all armed forces veterans, active-duty members and their families. The Lutes will take on the Linfield College Wildcats in their final home game of the season. The game will be played at Sparks Stadium in downtown Puyallup and kicks off at 1 p.m. PLU has a rich history of working closely with the military community. Located just 4.9 miles from Joint Base Lewis–McChord, PLU ranked fourth among regional universities in the West in the 2015 U.S. News
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Pacific Lutheran University has just announced a Fixed Tuition Guarantee that will ensure tuition for the 2022–23 incoming class of first-year and transfer students will remain the same throughout their undergraduate years at the university. This guarantee disrupts the general practice of higher education institutions…
researchers to be among the top 13% of universities in the country for return on investment, and was recently ranked third in the West for “Best Value” by U.S. News & World Report.Connect with us! /*
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Dear Campus Community: This Sunday, November 20th, is the annual observance of the Transgender Day of Remembrance. Founded in 1999, TDOR is an opportunity to memorialize the people murdered because of transphobia, and to bring attention to the continued violence and prejudice endured by the…
Friday, November 18, in the Regency Room of the Anderson University Center beginning at 6:00 p.m. for a remembrance event hosted by the Center for Gender Equity, Campus Ministry, the Queer Ally Student Union, and the Gender Alliance of the South Sound. The event will feature speakers, the reading of the names of people who were murdered, numbering over 90 since this time last year, and an opportunity for prayer and reflection. And on December 7 from 3:45-5:00 p.m. in Chris Knutzen Hall West of the
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At PLU, we don’t call our living facilities “dorms - residence halls are so much more! PLU provides quality on-campus living and learning environments that encourage and enhance engagement in and
Hall is an apartment-style complex, located on the south edge of campus. Students must be 20 years old or have junior standing by September 1st to reside in South Hall. The hall has a view of the Olympic Mountains to the west and Mount Rainier to the east. In addition, South Hall provides alternative choices to the regular residence halls, for example, South is the only hall on campus providing married student housing. For more information about South Hall’s eligibility and application process
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A Student-Curated Exhibit This semester Dr. Elisabeth Ward has had the privilege of teaching a course for the History Department entitled “Public Museums”.
by Norwegian American farmers called the Non-Partisan League. There is not all that much written about Scandinavian-Americans and the Labor movement, but there are however a few very well known Labor rights advocates in the U.S. The Swedish born Joe Hill wrote the most famous songs of the Wooblies, and the Norwegian longshoreman Andrew Furseth organized shipping unions along the West Coast. But there were also Scandinavian-Americans that did not want to get involved in an activity that some
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In 1889, the Norwegian Synod sent Bjug Harstad to the Pacific Coast to start a school. He visited Portland, Seattle and Tacoma, and it was decided that Parkland, Wash.
in England during WWII, and Crown Princess Märtha and her three children lived in the United States during that time.) Cultural ExchangesPacific Lutheran University has sent performers to Norway on a regular basis. The Choir of the West’s 1937 tour to Norway was followed by a 1963 tour that marked a high artistic attainment, as demonstrated by the reviews in many Scandinavian and German newspapers. The Choir of the West has returned to Norway several times since then, and the Choral Union Alumni
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One smoky August afternoon Dr Beth Kraig and I decided to beat the heat and take shelter in the cooling confines of the University of Washington, Tacoma library, to have a cheery chat about plagues. We thought this would be a fun topic to discuss,…
love of History started early, listening at the dinner table to her parents’ wide-ranging conversations on civil rights protests and other 1960s events. (It turns out this was a memory we both shared – only instead of the Pacific North West, my dinner-table eavesdropping took place on a dairy farm in south-eastern Australia!). Beth found herself attracted to the human stories of the past – especially, she says, to questions of authority — although answers were often lacking in the monotonous, dry
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Semester-long Themed Events Begin Feb. 12 “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.”—the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, WA (Jan. 15, 2015)—The semester beginning Feb. 4 at Pacific Lutheran University takes on a special focus…
p.m., Scandinavian Cultural Center, Anderson University Center. Monday, March 9: Student/Faculty Dialogue. The Division of the Humanities hosts an open, free-form discussion for students and faculty to share their thoughts and experiences related to race and ethnicity on campus and in the classroom and to identify goals for future programming and curricular development. 7 p.m.-9 p.m., Anderson University Center Room 133. Tuesday, March 17: Dr. Carolyn West: Forum on Ending Sex Trafficking. West
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I appreciates PLU’s values of vocation, asking big and difficult questions, and for being a caring community that encourages everyone to succeed.
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Throughout the years, Nancy Powell had been invited to many Raphael Lemkin Lectures at PLU. The scholars who spoke at the Lemkin Lectures were inspiring and students wanted to hear more.
About Powell-HellerThroughout the years, Nancy Powell had been invited to many Raphael Lemkin Lectur
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