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May 13, 2014 Preparing to Pitch for PLU Incoming first-year student-athlete Marissa Miller was a star on her high-school softball team. (Photo courtesy Marissa Miller) Incoming Softball Star Looks Ahead to Lute Team—and Education By Valery Jorgensen ’15 Puyallup High School senior and softball star Marissa Miller is eager to make the transition to college and begin her latest athletic career. In high school, she lettered in basketball and softball during her four years. Miller and her

Education Career Fair Brings Major Employers to Campus—and Results in Immediate Jobs Read Next Lute’s Company Leads the Way on New Panama Canal Project COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS A family with a “Bjug” legacy of giving and service September 27, 2024 PLU hosts the 14th Annual Lutheran Studies Conference: Celebrating Cecelia Svinth Carpenter, Indigenous

transitioned to distance learning in early March, the channel began publishing its programs April 6 and will continue through the end of the spring semester. Mindful Mondays, hosted by Counseling, Health & Wellness Services’ Tammara Bode, is focused on centering the mind with course- and vocation-related exercises from the PLU Counseling Center. PLU Reads, hosted by Assistant Professor of Education Wendy Gardiner, is for the younger members of our Lute community while families are home together for “Stay

these systems at their source.One way that we strive to do this work every day at PLU is by helping to ensure that all students have access to a purposeful, transformative education.  PLU’s mission—to educate students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership, and care, for others, for their communities, and for the earth—is hardwired in Lutheran higher education’s core belief that study in the liberal arts is a liberating experience, freeing the learner from ignorance and a life focused

the 2019-2020 school year, our Vet Corps Navigator Eric Burns earned the ‘Vet Corps Navigator of the Year Award.’ This was from a field of over 50 Navigators all over Washington State.” “Additionally we provide programming for veteran on-boarding called the FOB Bridge Program. This free, twice-a-week class provides tactics, techniques, and procedures for overcoming many of the common obstacles that veterans face as they navigate higher education.”  PLU Center for Military support Mission To

far away as Texas.“PLU is dedicated to providing a transformative, purposeful and interdisciplinary education that creates a strong foundation from which our graduates are prepared to be lifelong learners and can build successful and meaningful careers,” said President Allan Belton. “We are proud of our track record of preparing world-changing leaders and excited for the impact that this current generation of Lutes will have in the years and decades to come.” U.S. News ranked PLU 14th in best

Global Studies program was supported throughout the application process by the Interdisciplinary Studies program and the Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education. Read Previous Rising Amazon recruiter April Rose Nguyen ’19, ’21 has a plan Read Next Faith-based foodies in search of sustainable eating (PLU professor quoted) COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window

kinesiology professor in 1998 and was appointed dean of the School of Education & Kinesiology in 2018. In her new role, she’ll establish PLU’s new Office of Institutional Effectiveness, which will report directly to the Office of the President and work closely with all divisions of the university. McConnell knows her new charge will require some grit, as well as a willingness to innovate. “There are areas where we can be creative and innovative in a traditional sense, particularly in relation to how we

indirect care to diverse groups of people within a complex health care systems environment. “We are proud of the recognition our graduate nursing program continues to receive year after year,” said PLU School of Nursing Dean Barbara Habermann. “It celebrates our dedication to providing a respected program where our students receive an education that sets them up for success in various health care settings and conditions.”PLU nursing students can enroll in the traditional Bachelor of Science in Nursing

Intersections: Called and Empowered (and Assessed) Posted by: abryant / April 29, 2022 April 29, 2022 Cover art If we were all eyes, could we see each other? by Vickie R. Phipps Intersections, Number 54, Fall 2021Intersections is a publication by and largely for the academic communities of the twenty-seven institutions that comprise the Network of ELCA Colleges and Universities (NECU). Each issue reflects on the intersection of faith, learning, and teaching within Lutheran higher education. It