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place, and invite you to think about the larger purpose of this shared experience. The Commencement Ceremony is the most important event on the Pacific Lutheran University calendar. It is a celebration of achievement and a confirmation of our mission and purpose. While it is becoming increasingly common at other colleges and universities to alter the regalia, we at PLU seek to maintain the traditions of the ceremony and respect for the emblems of the academic profession. This is one of the ways we

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tribes in the area, we hope to build a cooperative program that meets local needs and provides a space for Indigenous ways of knowing at PLU. This won’t be about framing Native Americans and other Indigenous peoples as the object of study. Instead, it will be about empowerment and about building an education based on an Indigenous paradigm. A member of the Puyallup Tribe harvesting camas on PLU’s campus during an event co-organized by the Native and Indigenous Studies program in 2021 Ebenezer Scrooge

able to work with a former student on this important project. What has been the timeline of this project? I got connected with my producer Tina Huynh for a story from the Vietnamese community. We began having planning meetings last December and January and started the filming process in February. We continued interviews and b-roll collection through June and had the first cut of the film in August. Why is it important for our community to understand how Vietnamese-American immigrants honor their

American Council on Education (ACE) program for developing administrative skills, and spent a year as an ACE Fellow at Agnes Scott College. While there, he gained experience and skill in leadership and institutional change, planning, and budget and financial management, which he put to good use at PLU, developing and managing the budget for the Office of the Provost. Bill also served as a project coordinator in the U.S. State Department Bureau of Oceans & International Environmental Affairs, where he

program. I remember driving up to see the campus and I loved the small and warm community on campus. … The help and support that I received applying to the nursing program was also one of the major reasons why I chose PLU.  Tell us about your experience serving as a PLU RA, and how that has helped prepare you for the next steps in life? I have been an RA for close to four years now. There’s a lot of creativity that comes with this job — especially when it comes to planning for community builders and

planning on taking a few gap years before grad school. I want to get my PhD in social computation–people numbers–and go into applied research rather than academia. Until then, I want to get a job adjacent to the field.  Any specific plans for after commencement?  I am doing Vashon Opera. I am in the chorus, which is my first professional gig, yay! And in July, for the first three weeks, I am doing the [PLU] Summer Opera Workshop.  Read Previous Ash Bechtel ’24 combines science and social work for

the project helped understand how a local policy is seen by residents of an area. Bolton is planning to do a master’s degree and, possibly, a PhD in international relations. When he does so, he’ll go back to Oxford, a place he felt part of. When he wasn’t studying overseas, Bolton served as a resident assistant in the German wing of Hong Hall, the international dorm (he minored in German), and was an active member of the Associated Students of PLU. He also got involved in PLU’s Late Knight comedy

below, and let me know what other questions I can try to address—both here in the blog as well as in the upcoming open discussions we’re planning. *Note: All comments are moderated Read Previous PLU Blue Friday: Lutes Fired Up & Ready for the Super Bowl Read Next Blog Post: Caps and gowns and tassels … Oh, my! LATEST POSTS President Krise’s open letter of support for Muslim community January 30, 2017 An Open Letter on Access for All Students January 20, 2017 LISTEN Forum December 6, 2016 What

attended most conferences in her house through Zoom. “I had to grieve quite a bit in March when everything was being cancelled as the country shut down, because I [had] wanted this position for many years.” One of the hardest cancelations was a conference for American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese (AATSP) that would have taken place in Puerto Rico this past July. She was planning on staying a little longer in order to scout out a small study away program there, so that students who