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Virtual convening of The People’s Gathering to facilitate timely conversations about race Posted by: Marcom Web Team / June 30, 2020 June 30, 2020 By Rosemary Bennett '21PLU Marketing and CommunicationsOn July 9 PLU’s Campus Ministry and Center for Graduate and Continuing Education will be hosting a virtual edition of The People’s Gathering, a dialogue-based event series focusing in-depth on the topic of race.The People’s Gathering is an annual professional/personal development experience and
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“This is Design School” Podcast Posted by: Kate Williams / April 11, 2019 April 11, 2019 By Kate Williams '16JP Avila, Associate Professor of Art & Design, and Chad P. Hall ’10, PLU alum, have been busy at work with the release of season 4 of their podcast, This is Design School. This release welcomes amazing guests in the design world and beyond. This is Design School is a podcast for those interested in design, starting a career in design, or needing a reminder of why they went into design
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gives me opportunities to do lots of different things, develop lots of different forms of expertise and learn a lot of new skills. If you look back, are there elements of your PLU education that stand out as being especially helpful in law school and as an attorney? There are absolutely aspects of my undergraduate education that prepared me for law school. My time spent on the debate team at PLU was very helpful for a lot of the speech and advocacy work that I have to do as a part of my job. I was a
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TACOMA, WASH. (April 21, 2016)- Senior Tyler Dobies and first-year Caitlin Johnston say spring break changed their lives. While some Pacific Lutheran University students may have gone on vacation or had fun in the sun, other Lutes – like Johnston and Dobies – were busy…
Center for Global and Community Engaged Education. In partnership with the PLU Diversity Center, the trip sent eight students to Georgia and South Carolina to study environmental justice in a civil rights context. The trip focused largely on the history of racism and slavery, the importance of primary resources in an economic context and modern devices in society that unjustly divide people into different socioeconomic and racial areas. “The whole experience was very meaningful,” Dobies said. “It put
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Education Coordinating Board. And then I also do some work in the K-12 system, including teacher discipline litigation. What might an average week in the office for you include? Hmm, it varies. There really is no average week for me. Large institutions deal with a variety of problems and they have varied calendars throughout the year, so my average week is about as varied as the average week at a college campus. All the different things that are happening on college campuses are coming through my office
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Dynamic Compression Summer School Posted by: nicolacs / January 27, 2023 January 27, 2023 The Dynamic Compression Summer School has been established to provide an overview of dynamic compression science appropriate for upper-level undergraduates and first-year graduate students. The four and a half days of activities will introduce students to the scientific fundamentals, contemporary research activities including informal discussions, and career opportunities within this exciting field. The
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they did.” So he decided to prepare for medical school. For someone with aspirations to serve in the medical profession, he was doing all the right things. And by participating in PLU’s pre-professional health sciences program, his prognosis for success got even better. PLU doesn’t have a pre-med major, per se. It has a pre-professional health sciences program, which advises students one-on-one how to best build a course schedule that gives them the best chance at getting into a medical or
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higher education and its value, the team interviewed high school students, college students, teachers, professors, a chef, researchers, economists, philosophers, the US Department of Education and a famous Canadian astronaut. The student production team, which began research in Fall 2014, consists of: Natalie DeFord and Evan Heringer, senior communication majors; Jasper Sortun, senior art and design major; and Grace Takehara, senior business major. These Four Years will premiere in the Microsoft
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TACOMA, Wash. (Oct. 13, 2015)—Pacific Lutheran University will host a lecture by Seattle University School of Law Professor Dean Spade, a leading scholar and activist in trans rights. His talk, “Romantic Notions: Soldiers, Spouses and the Limits of LGBT Equality,” will be held at 6…
diversity, justice and sustainability in action—both within an academic context and within activism,” says Jennifer Smith, director of the Women’s Center. “He demonstrates how to put thought and theory into action. Additionally, his work is explicitly intersectional, focusing on race, class, sexuality and gender simultaneously.” Before joining the faculty of Seattle University, Spade was a Williams Institute Law Teaching Fellow at UCLA Law School and Harvard Law School, teaching classes related to
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Thinking about becoming a social worker? Compare a BSW and an MSW and explore if an MSW is worth it. In social work, two degrees stand out: the Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) and the Master of Social Work (MSW). Understanding the differences and their…
skills in social work practice, research, and policy analysis.What can you do with an MSW?An MSW opens up a range of career possibilities in the field of social work. You can pursue roles as clinical social worker, mental health therapist, school social worker, healthcare administrator, community organizer, non-profit administrator, or social work researcher. An MSW equips you with the expertise to address complex social issues and promote positive change at an individual, community, and systemic
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