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  • Mission: To provide military-affiliated personnel with the support and resources they need to succeed at PLU and beyond.

    & engagement. The Center consists of offices where you can find amazing staff, the DJS Lounge (where you can hang out or study), the DJS Classroom (across from the Lute Locker – where you can study), and the Cave.   The Center for Student Success: Meet with an advisor or just hang out in a talking-allowed space in the library with plenty of whiteboards for brainstorming all your best project ideas. History of Military Support at PLU2020 - Present2010-20192000-20091980-19991960-19791940-19592020 - Present

    Office Hours
    Monday: 1200-1700
    Tuesday: 0900-1200
    Thursday: 0900-1700
    Friday: 0900-1700
    Saturday: Closed
    Sunday: Closed
    Center for Military Student Support
    Anderson University Center Room 183
  • Former three-term State Superintendent of Public Instruction Terry Bergeson, Ph.D., succeeds, Frank Kline, Ph.D. TACOMA, WASH. (July 7, 2016) – Terry Bergeson, Ph.D., has joined Pacific Lutheran University as interim dean of the School of Education & Kinesiology . Bergeson has extensive experience in state education,…

    Tacoma and as a teacher and counselor in public schools throughout Massachusetts and Alaska.About PLUPacific Lutheran University purposefully integrates the liberal arts, professional studies and civic engagement. With distinctive international programs and close student-faculty research opportunities, PLU helps its 3,300 students from all faiths and backgrounds discern their vocations in life. Founded in 1890 by Norwegian pioneers, PLU continues the distinctive tradition of Lutheran higher education

  • Peace Corps Prep (PC Prep) is an undergraduate certificate program that helps students prepare for service in the Peace Corps, a US-government organization that sends US citizens abroad to volunteer

    Engaged Education, the Center for Community Engagement and Service, and the Global Education Committee.Upcoming Events Full CalendarPeace Corps Prep ApplicationPeace Corps Prep applications are accepted on a rolling basis and you can apply online anytime.Apply NowStudent GuideThe Student Guide provides detailed information about the PC Prep Program.View GuidePeace Corps AlumsOver 260 Lutes have already served in the Peace Corps. Click here to see what they did during their service and what they are

    Peace Corps Prep
    12180 Park Avenue S. Tacoma, WA 98447
  • Knutson Lecture

    17th Annual David and Marilyn Knutson Lecture“From Religion to Politics: Antisemitism and Jew HatredFrom Ancient Times Until Today”Dr. Marc Dollinger Thursday, September 29, 2022 7:00pm (Pacific time) Scandinavian Cultural Center in the Anderson University Center Each session will also be live-streamed on PLU’s YouTube channel   Contact: Dr. Agnes Choi, Chair of the Religion Department choiaa@plu.edu Kendall Jeske, Director of Congregational Engagement jeskekj@plu.edu Dr. Samuel Torvend

  • TACOMA, Wash. (March 5, 2015)— On Saturday, March 21, a diverse and distinguished group of speakers will present “ideas worth spreading” at the fourth annual installation of TEDx Tacoma. Among that group will be three Pacific Lutheran University faculty members representing a variety of PLU’s…

    importance of our students and our students’ desire to be known by their professors. It’s one thing to talk about that in a class of 32 students; it’s another to talk about it on a broader stage, with a broader audience.Amy YoungAssociate Professor of CommunicationYoung’s scholarship pursues questions of rhetorical style, expertise and engagement in the public sphere.  She lies awake at night fretting about the state of our public discourse and uses her scholarship to enable colleagues and students to

  • Rae Linda Brown, Ph.D., succeeds Steven P. Starkovich, Ph.D., as PLU’s chief academic officer TACOMA, WASH. (May 9, 2016) – Rae Linda Brown, Ph.D., will join Pacific Lutheran University as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs on Aug. 1, 2016. Brown comes to…

    PLU’s Faculty Assembly to press for excellence in every way. He has been critically important to the advancement of the university and we’ll miss his budget expertise, good judgment, wisdom, and humor at the President’s Council table, but we look forward to seeing him in familiar PLU surroundings as he returns to his first love, teaching physics,” Krise said.About PLUPacific Lutheran University purposefully integrates the liberal arts, professional studies and civic engagement. With distinctive

  • Every year since 2011, PLU has sent two Lutes to Norway as part of its summer Peace Scholars program. The Lutes learn about peacebuilding and dialogue, bringing what they learn home to apply it on

    students’ understanding of the central issues and theories regarding peacebuilding, conflict and war. “It will expose the PLU community to what peacebuilding looks like on a personal basis,” Rush said. Rush says PLU’s mission intersects with many core values in Norway, so the Peace Scholars program is a perfect fit for Lutes. “There is this sense of duty, responsibility, social engagement that I really see are reflected in students at PLU, serving here and beyond,” she said. Beiermann said those values

  • Established in 2022 through a gift from David and Lorilie Steen, the Steen Family Symposium brings informed speakers who challenge current thinking and propose healthy change to the PLU campus for

    goal was to accentuate the significance of salmon, while also encapsulating community and collaboration—central themes that resonate with the event’s overarching narrative.”2024 SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE 1:45PM Exploring Trust4:00PM Radical Relationships5:00PM Community Dinner7:00PM Keynote Panel1:45PM Exploring Trust DJS Lounge Check In: Exploring Trust 1:45PM, DJS Lounge (AUC 140) Check in with your community. Check in with your DJS learning and engagement.  At this DJS Lounge Check In we will explore

  • TACOMA, WASH. (May 20, 2016)- It’s the season for awards, banquets, recognition and a whole lot of celebrating for Pacific Lutheran University students as they approach Commencement 2016. The ceremony will mark the culmination of several years of hard work, community involvement and the pursuit…

    resources,” said Adams, this year’s student speaker for Commencement. He’s served as a resident assistant, including resident assistant positions with the Social Action and Leadership and First in the Family communities. He says he’s proud to have worked with Residential Life to provide resources and programs that focus on “empowering residents to handle adversities and develop skills to navigate the university campus.” Adams also has served as the youth engagement coordinator at PLU’s Center for

  • PLU Peace Corps program prepares Lutes for service work abroad.

    was easy. After mapping out the Peace Corps certificate requirements, Tamara Williams and Joel Zylstra — directors of the Wang Center for Global Education and the Center for Community Engagement and Service, respectively — found that some students were already completing the program just based off their majors. “It was global studies, environmental studies and Hispanic studies,” Zylstra said. “When there is overlap like that it’s kind of like ‘why not?’” Zylstra and Williams were approached by the