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TACOMA, WASH. (July 18, 2016)- Pacific Lutheran University’s School of Nursing earned $350,000 to further its long history of placing Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) students in rural and underserved communities to administer primary care to those in need. The money comes in the form of…
with the underserved,” Woo said. “They go to inner-city jobs that are higher paid.” PLU graduates are picking those jobs, she said, because they build meaningful relationships with clinics in those areas during their time at PLU. “Our students are driving all over to have experiences working in those areas,” Woo said. “They understand what it’s like to work in an area like that.” The primary challenge for the communities in question is a lack of resources: patients are located far away from
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The PLU School of Business is a community of engaged faculty, staff & administrators who provide an excellent business education in a student-centered learning environment grounded in the liberal
an average of 24 students, allowing you to build relationships with your peers and professors. It is pretty great to be on a first name basis with your faculty. Our entire School of Business team holds office hours for students to ask questions, get extra help, or simply just say hi. With the small class sizes, students are able to get to know and work with classmates from a variety of backgrounds and experiences. PLU encourages global and alternative perspective learning. Students are given the
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New Student Orientation, also known as PLU orientation or LUTE Welcome. Whether you are a first-year, transfer, or international student, LUTE Welcome orientation will assist in a smooth and
. NSO Learning Objectives Understand and articulate the distinctions of PLU’s approach to education and learning: Lutheran Higher Education; Vocation; and Diversity, Justice and Sustainability. Begin building relationships with members of the Lute community – students, staff, faculty, and alumni – by exploring opportunities for academic, social, and community engagement. Utilize tools in order to identify specific campus resources that will be beneficial to meeting their goals as Lutes (e.g
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Lt. Brian Bradshaw was an understated leader who put everyone else first. Ask anyone who knew him.
, Mary keeps in contact with those who were closest to Brian. She once invited a couple of his female friends over to sew. If Brian knew that, Mary said with a laugh, “he would be mortified.” Honoring VeteransMary and Paul Bradshaw were on the field ahead of PLU’s annual Military Appreciation Football Game on Nov. 5. Mary said her son’s spirit lives on through connections made by she and her husband, Paul, with people they would never have met otherwise. “We’ve learned more about Brian than we would
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PLU maintains an open door with a world superpower, empowering students to learn about politics and culture off the beaten path in a distinct region of the country.
option to pursue local internships or take advantage of the program’s relationships with local schools, where PLU students have taught English. Manfredi says the China-U.S. relationship is one of the most important in the world today, making PLU’s Gateway program there particularly important. He said that while the relationship between the two nations will always be complex, he doesn’t want to see the Chinese and Americans treat each other as adversaries. “If you look at a lot of reporting in the
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For two decades, the Makah people have welcomed PLU students to Neah Bay to learn about the tribe’s culture and history.
community and built lasting relationships that created a “living connection” to the artifacts from Ozette. Eventually, several years after Huelsbeck landed a teaching job at PLU in 1989, Ledford said it made sense for him to connect his work there to his work in Neah Bay. (Photos by John Froschauer, PLU) The result is one of PLU’s longest standing J-Term immersion experiences, one of many study away programs within the Wang Center for Global Education. Huelsbeck said many students study abroad in other
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TACOMA, WASH. (Nov. 1, 2016)- Lt. Brian Bradshaw was an understated leader who put everyone else first. Ask anyone who knew him. Instead of walking with his head down past the crying stranger in the lobby of a residence hall at Pacific Lutheran University, he…
was sure I’d bring out the naked baby pictures or something,” she said, laughing. Now, Mary keeps in contact with those who were closest to Brian. She once invited a couple of his female friends over to sew. If Brian knew that, Mary said with a laugh, “he would be mortified.” Mary said her son’s spirit lives on through connections made by she and her husband, Paul, with people they would never have met otherwise. “We’ve learned more about Brian than we would have,” she said. Among the many stories
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Where can a liberal arts degree in Music Composition lead you? In my case it has led to a life of travel, study, program development, tour-guiding, international relations and eventually a handshake with the President of China. Here’s the tale. TACOMA, Wash. (Sept. 29, 2015)—The…
jersey with the team’s name, “Abes,” on it and the number 1. After he joined us in the elegant 1913-style auditorium, the choir sang an American song and a Chinese song (in Chinese!), joined by five students from Lincoln’s partner school in our Chinese Sister City of Fuzhou. A film began, featuring a number of us involved with Tacoma-Chinese affairs speaking to the importance of our many relationships with China.President Xi was the tip of the iceberg of perhaps 1000 Chinese dignitaries and
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Jacob Taylor-Mosquera ’09 was 18 when he returned to Colombia. Although he considered it a homecoming, it took several more visits for him to truly feel at home.
Colombia.” He speaks the language and understands the culture. He built authentic relationships with his family. And he is a newly minted citizen of the country he calls home. “Becoming a Colombian citizen last April and getting a Colombian ID and passport meant the world to me,” he said, smiling broadly. Taylor-Mosquera is content in Colombia for now, but he hasn’t lost sight of his vocational goal, the result of the “roadmap to the future” he gained at PLU: “Teaching at the university level,” he said
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TACOMA, WASH. (June 15, 2016)- Kate Deines ’16 is a natural on the soccer field and has a long résumé to prove it. She played at the local, college, national and international level, garnering recognition until her retirement from the sport in 2015. When Deines…
surprised that Deines got the award. “Kate is highly intelligent, very motivated, well connected, diverse in background for someone in her mid-20s, and she is good with people and maintaining relationships,” Smith said. “She has really taken steps to get involved and she’s been offered many jobs.” Smith says the MSF program is fairly intense, but Deines managed it exceptionally well. “She has such a busy schedule and is just amazing at prioritizing and managing her time,” Smith said. Deines is part of
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