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appointment of James Brock as dean of the School of Business. Additional board action: The board was treated to a luncheon program that recognized the Regency Advancement Award winners, those named to Who’s Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges, as well as student leaders of ASPLU, the Residence Hall Association and student media. The candidates for degrees at Spring Commencement were approved, pending satisfactory completion of all degree requirements. The university was authorized to

the past that builds upon the strengths of military service, he said. The veterans of previous campaigns are with the new generation of veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan. “They are our examples,” Leith said. “It is amazing what our nation produces.” This Veterans Day is even more significant because it is the seventh in a row that the United States has been at war. The best way to honor veterans is to live a life as a good American, Leith said. That means go vote, volunteer, be a mentor, be a

Monty, and Clapp said it will provide audiences with singing, dancing, acting and fun. “This is your traditional American musical,” Clapp said. “It’s really underpinned to what’s happening right now with the economy.” Although he didn’t want to give away too much of the surprise, Clapp said there will be portions of the play with “suggested nudity.”Clapp, who started teaching and directing at PLU in 1995, is no stranger to productions such as this one. He estimates that in the last 16 years he has

map at the Campus Safety command center to indicate which device was activated. This establishes a ready line of communication between the Campus Safety office and the user of the help station. PLU is an active participant in the Disaster Mitigation Planning process coordinated by Pierce County’s Emergency Management Division. Under current Memoranda of Understanding with the American Red Cross-Mount Rainier Chapter and with Central Pierce Fire & Rescue, Olson Auditorium and the PLU campus are

Washington’s 7th District, which encompasses most of Seattle and its surrounding areas. She is the first South Asian American woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and one of only 14 naturalized citizens currently serving in the United States Congress. “If you want to prepare people to engage in real talk now, the People’s Gathering is the place to be,” says Dr. Karen Johnson, equity and inclusion administrator for the Washington State Department of Corrections. “Our agency looks forward to

collaborator on the president’s and executive councils. Myrick holds a master’s degree in facilities management from The University of Texas at San Antonio and a bachelor’s degree in political science from Spelman College. She is also a graduate of the Los Angeles African American Women’s Public Policy Institute and serves the International Facilities Management Association’s Academic Facilities Council as the chair for young professionals.  Myrick succeeds Kate Boyle, who served as PLU’s Interim COO after

registration, cutbacks on early voting, and strict voter identification requirements” (source: American Civil Liberties Union https://www.aclu.org/issues/voting-rights). While the physical exhibit resides in the Mortvedt Library lobby, here on the web we’ve added links to Open Access resources on the topics of 15th Amendment (Black men’s right to vote), 19th Amendment (White women’s right to vote), and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (securing Black, Latinx, and Asian women’s right to vote and Indigenous

stay the same.” O’Brien said it’s unclear how his department and others are going to respond. After all, he said, “there are traditions that just matter,” no matter what the numbers show. But, he has faith in the process. “Whatever the joint committee does, every humanities faculty member who works here is going to show up and work really hard to educate students because that’s why we’re here,” he said. “No matter what happens, we’re going to keep showing up, excited to educate PLU students.” And

fellowship for internal medicine physicians in partnership with the Rosebud Sioux Tribe and the Indian Health Service in the Great Plains. “I was always interested in rural health and indigenous health, but I didn’t really have any experiences to speak to that other than living in rural areas … and I felt that would be an opportunity to address health disparities, kind of merging health equity and cultural humility,” Chell says. “Also growing up in South Dakota, I felt pretty ignorant to the native

. The PLU students saw the need to help fill that gap, and armed with their own experiences of taking music lessons, they devised a plan to bring the camp back to life. “While growing up, my sister and I went to a lot of free music camps, and I remember having so much fun,” Ely, a native of nearby Buckley, Washington says. “I wanted to create a place where kids could come and have a lot of fun and also learn all these cool musical things.” In addition to offering the kids a chance to participate in