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  • Online Learning at Pacific Lutheran University. Online and blended programs for undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education students extend the university’s mission beyond campus borders,

    , graduate, and continuing education students extend the university’s mission beyond campus borders, providing high-quality options that meet a variety of student needs while fostering strong student-faculty relationships and learning communities. Use this website to learn more about online offerings, training for faculty, and whether online and blended learning are right for you.On-budget Undergraduate academic courses offered online during Summer Sessions run at a reduced per credit hour rate, but are

  • Checklist, before you request the letter: Keep track of the deadlines. Ideally, your letter writers should have at least one month's notice.

    the group exercises we did in your class really came in handy as I was able to use Program W and Journal paper T to help my team solve the problem.” Are your letters “stale”? (The weaker value of old letters was specifically mentioned by a representative from the UW School of Medicine.) If you are re-applying after an unsuccessful admission cycle, we strongly urge you to have your letter writers update their letters and send them again. It’s important to maintain your relationships with your

  • After a rare heart condition cut her soccer career short, Shelby Daly ’13 found her calling as an athletic trainer.

    prepares the players by taping ankles or providing manual or soft-tissue therapy. She is the first responder for any in-practice or in-game injury, and is responsible for administering ice after practice and providing injury updates to the coaching staff. She also is responsible for player hydration, and would like to get more involved in nutrition education for the players. Through her many relationships in the business, Daly also has worked as a certified athletic trainer at a bevy of events hosted

  • Ed.D. with Superintendent Certification 60 semester hours Superintendent Strand - 16 semester hours EDUC 741: Educational Law, Policy, and Governance (2) EDUC 742: Human Resources in K-12 (2) EDUC

    development of a districtwide vision. Additionally, this course will introduce students to the PLU Ed.D. program and build relationships among cohort members and faculty. (3) EDUC 701 : Educational Research I This course provides foundational concepts in educational research including various methodologies. The course will address criteria for evaluating and using educational research in their own practice. Students will develop skills in understanding and evaluating research claims. Course concepts

  • Originally published in 2005 For two weeks of March, 2000, in the vast jungle along Mexico’s southern border with Belize, I joined a team of biologists and hounds in chasing and capturing a wild jaguar. I was in Mexico as a Fulbright Scholar. It took…

    , compelling research on animals in recent decades has dramatically changed our image of animal consciousness and our understanding of our relationships with animals. We are experiencing an exciting new wave of interest in animals. Animals are moving out of biology and zoology departments and into fields once way out of bounds for them. The conference I referred to earlier, for example, was one of four major international and multidisciplinary conferences to be held on animal issues in the last two years

  • By the time she earned the university’s highest degree, she left with more than a shiny new title. The nurse practitioner for Providence Medical Group at Hawks Prairie Internal Medicine in Lacey,

    perform therapy with a co-therapist from their class. Every student in the program will spend their first semester of practicum here. They work with a wide range of clients, which include individuals, families, and couples. Couple & Family Therapy CenterData Research Project with Washington Traffic Safety CommissionThe 2018 MSMR cohort is working with the Washington Traffic Safety Commission (WTSC) to end traffic deaths and serious injuries by 2030.  The cohort has been divided into two teams. Each

  • In January 2006, a group of PLU students — bundled up in warm coats, gloves, hats and sturdy boots — stepped carefully from the boat on which they’d been traveling onto the rocky and icy shores of Antarctica. This intrepid class helped seal a spot…

    January term in Uruguay, spring semester in Granada, Spain, and then for a fall semester I was in London. I was aware of study away in high school, and I was going to make it happen no matter where I went to college, but I really liked the idea of J-term at PLU, that there were so many options, and that study away was such a priority here.  Studying away my first year: I did Uruguay my first year, and there were a lot of good lessons to learn. I had different expectations based on a couple of trips I

  • Diving in to “Tapped Out: Unearthing the Global Water Crisis” For the past year and a half, MediaLab students Haley Huntington, Kortney Scroger, Valery Jorgensen and Katie Baumann have traveled throughout North America documenting the importance of water and perils facing our world’s most important…

    . Louis, we piled into our trusty rental mini van, nicknamed “Starship Enterprise,” and headed south. Our end destination was New Orleans, LA, only a mere 14 hours south of where we were. Along the way, however, we had a couple of stops to make. The first was Thebes, IL, where an impressive amount of river construction was going on. The river’s low levels had revealed sheets of rock along the river bottom that were causing issues for passing vessels. To mitigate the issue, the USACE developed a plan

  • President’s Remarks Good morning!  I’m delighted to welcome you all to the 2015 University Convocation!

    on the day that my mother entered hospice care for her final illness, an illness which had come on very suddenly and shockingly to us.  She had been at PLU just a couple of weeks earlier, attending the Commencement events and the visit of the King of Norway.  As I stayed by mother’s side through her final days, she and I had a number of conversations about these race relations issues. As it turned out, the South Carolina legislature ordered that the flag be taken down on Friday, the 10th of July

  • This spring, the Strategic Enrollment Management Advisory Committee (known as SEMAC) will finalize PLU’s philosophy of enrollment, with the intention to ask our Board of Regents to adopt a final draft statement with enrollment targets in May. (See the current draft here  on the Provost…

    higher quality students if it is a little harder to be admitted.True.  During our enrollment challenge of the last couple of years, we have maintained two important indicators of quality: GPA/SAT and Net Tuition Revenue Per Student.  We didn’t sacrifice quality to bring in the numbers we wanted; we stuck to our commitment to quality and preparation. *Note: All comments are moderated If we add new graduate programs does this mean that we are taking away other graduate programs?So far, the feeling