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the new learning center. The site has seen frequent work parties by PLU students, community members and local high school students to improve PLU’s local habitat. Ojala-Barbour started the Urban Habitat Restoration project in 2009. Prior to the project, the site was inaccessible due to dense thickets of Himalayan blackberries. This invasive species has affected a critically threatened a species of oak tree that is native to the area and grows on the PLU grounds. After more than a year of

understanding how choices made individually and collectively affect issues such as immigration, health care, environmental issues, or income inequality? The PLU Economics Department offers the unique opportunity to participate in an economics alumni mentoring program for all majors to help you prepare for your life beyond PLU. Keep reading to learn more!Watch to find out how students majoring in economics can partner with a PLU economics graduate to gain insight into the vast array of career

a.m. to 3 p.m. and is free and open to the public. It will provide information about local sustainable services and products, including transportation alternatives, green construction, energy conservation and alternative energy sources, waste minimization and recycling, and global climate change initiatives. The event will feature an array of speakers and exhibitors. Those scheduled to speak include the group Bridging Urban Gardens Sustainably (BUGS) to discuss community gardens in Tacoma, and

, eventually becoming an author and architect of U.S. oil-spill policy; creator-under-resilience Brenda Palms Barber, who trained ex-convicts in Chicago to make and sell urban honey; and Florida’s first black millionaire, Abraham Lincoln Lewis, who founded American Beach at a time when African Americans were not allowed to swim at most beaches in Jacksonville. Few in the audience had heard of these pioneers—which precisely illuminates yet another DSJ challenge. “I always ask, ‘Do I see myself, and how? Is

.’” Delos Reyes was also very aware of how she was seen by students—how she didn’t fit the image of the white American they expected. Delos Reyes became comfortable telling students about her heritage, and she appreciated being able to travel to a country with distinct urban and rural regions that reminded her of the Philippines, where her parents were born. Throughout Delos Reyes’ life, music has been a thread connecting her upbringing to her education. “My whole family is very musical,” she says. “A

or indentured sugar cane plantation workers, labor organizers, and displaced and impoverished urban communities. Calypso songs and steel band music developed in this context. Overall, music played a very important part in the construction of a post-colonial identity for Trinidadians. Today Trinidad is a modern twin-island nation, an oil-producing member of OPEC, a major Caribbean tourist destination and the site of one of the world’s most influential “Carnivals.” Known as Mardi Gras in the US

project settled on themes of resiliency, the tension between reality and hope, diversity, rural/urban, vibrancy and wholeness. The design scheme uses each letter of “Parkland” to illustrate stories around those themes: P for people, A for agriculture, R for recreation, K for kids, L for landscape, A for academics, N for native peoples and D for diversity. The mural is scheduled for completion in June, with many people—at PLU and in the community—already excited to see the end product as it gives voice

something I was really interested in —in becoming a social worker later on,” Soliai said. “ And academics wise PLU was the best choice for the major I wanted.” Still, as a first-generation college student, Soliai wasn’t certain how she would be able to afford college. While going through the college admissions process she learned of the Act Six Scholarship. Act Six is a leadership program that connects local community affiliates with faith- and social justice-based colleges to equip emerging urban and

an Act Six Scholarship. PLU is one of five universities affiliated with the program that offers leadership training and scholarships for emerging urban and community leaders.“One of my mentors in high school was an Act Six recipient,” Jones said. “But they left my freshman year, so I was never introduced to  PLU or Act Six until my senior year.”  After learning more about the university located just 30 miles south of him, he decided it was the school for him. Aside from having the major he wanted

, ‘Teacher, he looks like us.’” Delos Reyes was also very aware of how she was seen by students—how she didn’t fit the image of the white American they expected. Delos Reyes became comfortable telling students about her heritage, and she appreciated being able to travel to a country with distinct urban and rural regions that reminded her of the Philippines, where her parents were born. Throughout Delos Reyes’ life, music has been a thread connecting her upbringing to her education. “My whole family is