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2016 NWACC Award for Innovation in Instructional Technologies Posted by: nordgrle / December 15, 2016 December 15, 2016 Each year the Northwest Academic Computing Consortium (NWACC), a group of 33 northwest colleges and universities, sponsors an Award for Innovation in Instructional Technologies. The award recognizes faculty members and instructional technologists at member institutions for work demonstrating effective design, development, integration, and/or support of instructional technology

Student opportunity to visit Amazon HQ in Seattle Posted by: hassonja / January 19, 2018 January 19, 2018 Career Connections and Alumni and Constituent Relations are partnering to bring students to Amazon HQ in Seattle on President’s Day, Monday, February 19 from 9:00 am – 5:30 pm. The visit will include: free lunch, networking with alumni, and touring Amazon HQ. Transportation from PLU will be provided. Students from all majors are encouraged to attend. RSVP on the Career Connections

January 3, 2011 Student-satisfaction remains high in national survey PLU continues to exceed national norms on 10 of 12 scales. By Greg Brewis According to the results of a national survey, student satisfaction with PLU continues to exceed national norms on 10 of 12 scales. The Student Satisfaction Inventory asks students to identify the issues that are most important to them. It’s the primary tool used by PLU – and many other universities – to assess the effectiveness of campus services. PLU

, Berkley, and a mountaineering expert. On Dec. 12, all six will fly out in a C130 -bundled up and with earplugs – as the cargo plane lumbers over the jagged terrain to the Pensacola Mountains. For the next 40 days, with the exception of Christmas, their days will be get up, eat as many calories as they can, hike up a mountain, take rock samples and go back down the mountain to study what they’ve extracted. They will have a satellite phone, but plan to use it rarely – they may call their families on

the changes in forensics to the changes that influenced all of secondary and higher education during the century. For seven years the team traced the intellectual and social factors that affected the craft, rather than simply listing relevant dates and events. “The authors are the experts in the field. This is the first comprehensive history of American forensics and I predict that it will stand as the history of forensics for the next one hundred years,” Professor of Rhetoric at the University of

May 7, 2013 PLU President Tom Krise teaches a course on Caribbean literature during the spring semester. (Photos by John Froschauer) President Krise goes to the front of the class…to teach By Katie Scaff ’13 When students walked into Admin 214 at the beginning of spring semester for English 216: African and Caribbean short stories, some were a little surprised to find the university president, Tom Krise, standing in the front of the room with Professor Barbara Temple-Thurston. “There were some

job for me. We have several Lutes that work for the rescue mission.  After graduation, I was offered a job by a nonprofit, Metropolitan Development Council, where I worked for almost 18 years. Then I was Executive Director at Helping Hand House, a small Puyallup shelter for homeless families. After that, I worked at the MultiCare Foundation and came to the rescue mission in 2018. During the initial spring COVID-19 outbreak, how did the partnership with Bellarmine Prep come about? I called everyone

‘What’s a Lute?’ — Go Lutes Edition Posted by: Lace M. Smith / September 18, 2015 Image: PLU Homecoming football game against Linfield at Sparks Stadium in Puyallup on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2014. (Photo/John Froschauer) September 18, 2015 As I travel around talking to prospective students and their families, donors, and friends of PLU, I am often asked, “what is a Lute?” From time to time, I blog about examples of students and alumni that uplift what it means to be a Lute. We’ve received two

series of movies that were being developed out of the J.R.R. Tolkien trilogy. The rest is history. “The entire experience was fantastic,” said Perry of his time working with Peter Jackson and the Lord of the Rings creative team. Not only did he help the Ents attack the tower, but he helped the lighting team with Gollum, and he created some of the larger battle scenes. Perry is working for the next six months in Vancouver, B.C., on special computer generated effects on the next “Final Destination

. Dr. Artime, whose research interest is in the area of Traumatic Stress, completed a 2-year collaboration with the University of Washington, funded by PCORI. Her project developed a stakeholder learning community, composed of college clinicians, administrators, student life professionals, community members, and students who investigated evidence-based trauma focused treatments for use in university counseling centers. Dr. Artime engages her students in research which is timely, and bridges the gap