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  • DirectorsThe Confucius Institute of the State of Washington(CIWA) is led by a team of Directors from both Washington state and our partner institutions in China. Our current American Directors are Dr. Jeffrey Riedinger, Director of CIWA and Vice Provost for Global Affairs at the University of Washington, Dr. Michele Anciaux Aoki, Director of CIWA Education Center and International Education Administrator for Seattle Public Schools, and Aihua Liao serves as the Assistant Director at the UW

  • Novelist Leslye Walton ’04 Nominated for Prestigious Morris Award Posted by: Zach Powers / January 5, 2015 Image: [Photo Courtesy of www.LeslyeWalton.com] January 5, 2015 By Zach PowersPLU Marketing & Communications TACOMA, WA (Jan. 5, 2014) —Pacific Lutheran University alumna Leslye Walton has been nominated for the prestigious William C. Morris YA Debut Award for her novel The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender. First awarded in 2009, the accolade “honors a debut book published by

  • April 11, 2008 World expert addresses masculinity, violence Silence is not golden. That was the message from Sut Jhally, founder and executive director of the Media Education Foundation. Jhally’s address last Thursday marked the beginning of PLU’s first Men Against Violence Program conference that examined men’s role in ending violence against women. “The men who commit violence against women are a small percentage of men,” Jhally conceded. “However, the reason the violence goes on is the

  • Annotating Austen’s Environments What does it mean to read Jane Austen while experiencing climate change? On the occasion of Jane Austen’s 246th birthday, we are excited to announce that in January 2022, The Jane Austen Review will begin an open educational project focused on the representations of the environment and non-human living forms in Austen’s work.Our project emerges, first, from our immediate experience of climate change. Most of the members of our team either reside or have recently

  • Global Opportunities for PLU Administrators & Staff J-Term 2023 Mexico, Andrea Michelbach J-Term 2020 Hawaii, Nicole Juliano Short-Term Study Away Program AssistantThis opportunity was created in 2003 as part of the university’s global and cross-cultural education initiatives. Administered through the Wang Center, it aims to provide PLU faculty and staff with a demonstrated interest in global education with the opportunity to participate in one of PLU’s short-term programs in a support capacity

  • in this e-mail interview. PLU alumna Kelsey (Dawson) Goodson, ’08, accompanied her husband and U.S. soccer player, Clarence Goodson IV, to South Africa to represent the U.S. team at the World Cup (Photo provided by Kelsey (Dawson) Goodson ’08) Describe what it was like being up in the stands for those games. Did everybody come in red, white and blue face paint? What was the strangest getup you saw? About two hours prior to each match, over a hundred U.S. family members, staff and, of course, U.S

  • continue educating Lutes long after our time as stewards of the University has passed. The Board of Regents also adjusted, effective June 1, 2017, the endowment’s spending rate from 5 percent to 4.75 percent per annum. Looking Forward Pacific Lutheran University’s priority is to continue to focus on our students – their learning and their success. This priority drives all of our decisions and is at the heart of everything we do. We realize this priority when we increase scholarship opportunities, when

  • Going for a Grammy Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / September 28, 2014 Image: Micah Haven ’09 is in his fifth year as band director at Meeker Middle School in Tacoma. (Photo: Tacoma School District) September 28, 2014 When you think Grammys, you might think Béyoncé and Macklemore—but you might not think Lute. It might be time to rethink the Grammys. Micah Haven, a 2009 Music Education graduate of Pacific Lutheran University and now the director of bands at Meeker Middle School in Tacoma, is a

  • By Kiara Revilla Beijing, China – Day 3 Today was by no means a busy day but it was definitely an eventful day. We started out with the luxury of getting up a little later then usual (meeting at 9:30!). Our breakfast was the usual mix of fried rice, toast, and fried duck eggs. The first stop was the art district. With our early start most of the streets were deserted and we got to look around all by ourselves. The streets were filled with modern art as well as traditional Chinese art. You could

  • Bjug Harstad Memorial EndowmentIn the interests of preserving the memory and mission of Rev. Bjug A. Harstad, his grandchildren Isabel Watness and Duff Harstad, along with many others, created an endowment fund at Pacific Lutheran University. The Bjug Harstad Memorial Fund was established in 1994 to carry out Bjug’s heartfelt plea to Scandinavian Americans that “they not lose touch with their ancestral culture and traditions.” In our moment in history, given the urgency and importance of the