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Major Minute: Communication Posted by: mhines / September 19, 2024 September 19, 2024 Curious about what it’s like to major in Communication at PLU? In this quick video, Professor Amy Young breaks down the essentials of the program, from the dynamic courses you’ll take to the real-world skills you’ll gain. Whether you’re into film studies, media, public relations, or digital storytelling, this major is about empowering you to make an impact in today’s fast-paced communication landscape. Watch

Education and Journalism: Hard work and worth the effort Posted by: Todd / November 19, 2012 November 19, 2012 Robert Marshall Wells was looking out the window of his corner office at AT&T, where he was working as a public relations specialist, looking beyond the rolling hills and D.C.-area cityscape, not really seeing anything. Wells was pondering his future. He had already racked up an impressive set of credentials, with a bachelor’s of general studies from American University in Washington

Bartanen, Chair of the Communication department, with the subject, “You’re famous.” I came to PLU intending to focus my Communication degree on public relations and advertising. By the end of October, passionate faculty members and even more enthusiastic peers convinced me I was made to be a journalist. In late October (after just declaring a Communication major with an emphasis in journalism), I visited my academic advisor, Professor of Communication Joanne Lisosky. With wide eyes and hands suspended

PLU Contingent Faculty Withdraw Election Petition Posted by: Lace M. Smith / December 22, 2014 December 22, 2014 Update on Jan. 15, 2015: PLU Contingent Faculty Withdraw Election Petition TACOMA, WA (Jan. 15, 2015)—The petition filed with the National Labor Relations Board from Pacific Lutheran University contingent faculty to form a union has been withdrawn. This means that the current union election is over, and the challenged votes will not be counted. “As we have stated before, we believe

, program development, tour-guiding, international relations and eventually a handshake with the President of China. Here’s the tale.By Dr. Gregory YoutzPLU Professor of Music and ComposerTACOMA, Wash. (Sept. 29, 2015)—The late September sun was hot as we crowded in through a narrow door into a lobby full of metal detectors and federal security agents. Behind us Vietnamese and Falun Gong protesters waved flags and signs. Police were everywhere, as the whole neighborhood around Lincoln High School had

aspects of marketing and communications including brand management, marketing operations, sales and recruitment marketing and internal and external communications.  Lange majored in communication at PLU, with a business minor. She spent the first few years of her career in public relations and event management in fields like technology and nonprofit, and then moved into brand management for companies, including Eddie Bauer and Starbucks. After moving to Gig Harbor with her young family, she decided to

him. Even when, as a second-year Lute, it led him to rethink plans to follow his parents into medicine and toward a major in communication. Even when it nudged him out of a burgeoning early career in public relations and into the world of corporate internal communications.Zeebuyth’s curiosity eventually led him to join the communications team at Starbucks, where he served in six different roles over a 10-year span, starting as a project manager and departing as a director of communications. It’s

first-year students, like The First-Year Experience and the J-Term retreat “Explore!,” have been called out for high praise. More recently, thanks to the Class of 1958, Wild Hope’s Meant to Live program has been endowed to bring together students and alumni during Homecoming to discuss issues of vocation. This gives PLU students the chance to see how vocation is lived out by its alumni, and gives alumni the chance to think about how their own vocations have evolved through their lives. They all have

be the hub of the wheel of already existing services, including the offices of Career Development and Academic Internships, or the opportunities made available through academic departments or the Alumni office. “One of our major goals is to help students have a seamless transition into the next phase of life, said Bobbi Hughes, Director of Employer Relations at PLU. “We’re going to be doing, and have been doing, a great job in helping students discover what they are passionate about and what they

. “I say ‘yes’ to different possibilities,” she says. “I like trying new things.” That kind of thinking helped her segue from jobs in art education and publishing to public education communications.As senior director for communications, government relations and public engagement for Educational Service District 113, her team provides services such as writing, video production and graphic design for school districts in Grays Harbor, Lewis, Mason, Pacific and Thurston Counties. They also foster