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second goal is to provide the best possible support for you, the remarkable faculty and staff of PLU, the heart and soul, and, yes, the head, of this great place. So, I am pleased that both last year and now moving forward, we are maintaining all faculty and staff leadership, professional development and recognition programs. We are also maintaining all research support, sabbatical leaves, and our modest travel budgets. We were able last spring to make a series of important promotion, market and

May 13, 2014 Students work to wrestle a mattress into a Goodwill donation van during last year’s Moveout. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Moveout 2014 provides an opportunity to transform unwanted room items into support, jobs through new partnership with Goodwill By Barbara Clements, Content Development Director PLU Marketing and Communications It’s that time of year again: What do you do with that couch, or mattress or lamp you no longer want? And what about that unopened box of gluten-free

by PLU photographer Ken Dunmire | The article from the "Seattle Post-Intelligencer" From Green Lake to Lake Union by foot, from Lake Union through the Ballard Locks, across Elliott Bay and down Puget Sound to Tacoma in a Pocock shell clad in a wafer-thin cedar skin, the PLU men completed their 50-mile winter Odyssey just as darkness fell. Photo by the late Seattle Post-Intelligencer photographer Cary Tolman Photo by the late Seattle Post-Intelligencer photographer Cary Tolman Photo by the late

graduation rate—one of the best ways we can do right by our students, both academically and financially. increase the transparency of our budget process. purposefully integrate PLU’s special blend of liberal arts, professional studies and civic engagement. It’s all part of cultivating a welcoming university culture of trust, inclusion and safety—it’s vital to our institution, to its mission and to each of us. Welcome to a new year at PLU. *Note: All comments are moderated Read Previous Blog Post: A Great

Emily Davidson) In a letter of support for the grant partnership, Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies Emily Davidson proposed to inaugurate (and institutionalize) an annual Latino Studies Lecture at PLU. The Tacoma partnership was awarded a $10,000 grant, whose mission is to: highlight Latino arts and culture and support Western Washington’s Latino-American population; promote public participation in programming around the documentary film Latino Americans; raise awareness and celebrate the

the idea for the book while they were doing research together at the Folger Shakespeare Library a few years ago. “We were doing some research into handwriting and paleography, but we realized that we both had an interest in consciousness and what it meant to be awake and what it meant to be asleep, and the philosophical implications of that, as they manifested in literature.” Professor Nancy Simpson-Younger Forming Sleep: Representing Consciousness in the English Renaissance CoEdited by Nancy

Where History and Innovation Meet Posted by: halvormj / November 28, 2017 Image: Does innovation change the way that we see the world? Photo by Dayne Topkin on Unsplash. November 28, 2017 by Damian Alessandro. The scope of human history is vast, encompassing everything that has happened in past societies. However, when most students think about history, they usually focus on the dates and events that have been highlighted in textbooks. These events tend to include social upheavals and mass

school or a credit union. Q: What should I do if I have responded to one of these emails? A:  Change your password immediate by going to https://www.plu.edu/epass/ and call the Help Desk at 253-535-7525.  We will need to walk you through cleaning your account to ensure that no one else has access. Q:  Is there anything I can do to help combat these emails? A:  Yes!  Continue to report them to us every time you get one.  It may seem futile or redundant, but the sooner we know about a new wave, the

February 1, 2008 Conference unites art and religion Artists, musicians and scholars will gather on campus for PLU’s second “Art, Religion and Peace Conference” Feb. 12 and 13.Last held in the spring of 2005, the conference explores ways in which the visual and musical arts of religious communities promote justice and peace.“The arts have been an integral part, and remain an integral part, of religious traditions, both historically and today,” explained religion professor Samuel Torvend. Visual

September 22, 2008 Feminist theology and ethics explored An expert on feminist theology, feminist ethics and theological anthropology will deliver the 2008 David and Marilyn Knutson and Department of Religion Lecture at Pacific Lutheran University. Susan Ross will speak on “Seeking Light and Beauty: Women, Justice and Sacramentally” on Monday, Sept. 29 at 7:30 p.m. in Xavier Hall, Nordquist Lecture Hall, off Park Avenue South. Ross is a professor of theology and faculty scholar at Loyola