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  • Columbia’s Combined Plan Application Open Posted by: nicolacs / November 2, 2021 November 2, 2021 Columbia’s Combined Plan Application is now open. The deadline for applying is January 12, 2022. Please find below some of the instructions (concerning students) that were sent to me from Columbia as a Liaison of Columbia’s Combined Plan program. If you are planning to apply this year, please click on the links below, and review the admission requirements (2 short essays, choice of engineering

  • Hannah Jeske ’16 Where are you working now? Shannon & Wilson, Inc., a geotechnical engineering design firm. I am the Marketing Assistant. What were you involved in while at PLU?  I was involved in MediaLab, theatre, swing club, and Intervarsity. What are some of the biggest challenges you’ve faced since graduation? The hardest challenges I have faced have been navigating through changing relationships, crises of loved ones, and keeping my head above the water of all that life has thrown at me

  • PLU CONTINUING EDUCATIONANTI-RACIST LEADERSHIP EDUCATION PRESENTS Dr. Yusef Salaam, a member of the “Exonerated Five” formerly known as the infamous “Central Park Five,” is visiting Tacoma on December 14-15, 2023. Day 1 features a community welcome reception sponsored by community partners and hosted at The Evergreen State College-Tacoma Campus. Dr. Salaam, a symbol of resilience, will share inspirational insights on pivotal topics, including Prison Reform, Black Male Achievement, Juvenile

  • 40 Under 40 program—and this year, five of those are Lutes. On Aug. 4, the honored Lutes joined the rest of the 40 Under 40 roster at Cheney Stadium in Tacoma for the recognition program. Here’s a look at the honorees—and the amazing things they’ve done already: Molly Hill ’05, Director of Operations at Summit Financial Group. Hill moved from Montana to attend Pacific Lutheran University, and it was through a PLU internship that she found Summit, and Summit found her. As an intern, she impressed

  • PLU alumna addresses diversity, equity, inclusion as inaugural administrator at Pierce College Posted by: Kari Plog / May 2, 2018 Image: Oneida Blagg ’82 and ’91 May 2, 2018 By Helen Smith '19PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (May 2, 2018) — Oneida Blagg — Pierce College’s first director of equity, diversity and inclusion — says her commitment to those issues started long before she pioneered this new position at the community college.Blagg’s parents raised her to be politically aware

  • , they’re just being honest. An assistant attorney general for Washington state, there’s no predicting the cases and conundrums that will land on Kjolseth’s desk. That’s part of the reason they love their job. What does your practice at the Washington State Attorney General’s Office include? I work in the education division at the Attorney General’s office, so my practice includes both K-12 and higher education law. I am general counsel to a couple of technical colleges and the Workforce Training and

  • Burien. “Mr. Wade! Mr. Wade! I need your help,” a few chimed in from different corners of the room. Wade, alongside longtime teacher Darrell Chase, calmly commanded the classroom as though he had done it for years. Yet, the 38-year-old is in his second year of teaching, and he credits his immediate success to the intense preparation at Pacific Lutheran University through the Alternative Routes to Certification (ARC) program. The intensive, primarily field-based program within the School of Education

  • baseball program, too, and drove back and forth every day from her family’s home in Olympia to PLU’s campus as she worked toward her master’s degree in physical education with an emphasis in sports administration. She even learned the best way to make popcorn for the concession stand. Her time at PLU, Cohen said, taught her “everything — how to grind, how to build relationships and problem-solve. To come in at that level and see the joy of sport for what it is, and the educational opportunities, that’s

  • . She was a graduate assistant for the baseball program, too, and drove back and forth every day from her family’s home in Olympia to PLU’s campus as she worked toward her master’s degree in physical education with an emphasis in sports administration. She even learned the best way to make popcorn for the concession stand. Her time at PLU, Cohen said, taught her “everything — how to grind, how to build relationships and problem-solve. To come in at that level and see the joy of sport for what it is

  • partnership between Pacific Lutheran University, MultiCare, and Washington State University’s Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine has been formed to help address health care inequities and provider shortages in Pierce County and beyond. How will this partnership help with workforce development and the health care provider shortage in Washington? Washington is grappling with a severe shortage of health care professionals (e.g., nurses, doctors, health technicians, etc.). This partnership will help qualified