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  • Statement of Community Care https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2018/10/30/statement-of-community-care/

    Tacoma, “We must struggle to find the right words, however inadequate, to process what has happened and to find a way to move from darkness toward light, from mourning to memory, from despair to hope.” While we work to find the words to help our communities move toward light, memory and hope, we are grateful for the first responders, care givers and the love that holds community together. PLU is a university of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America. The ELCA has repeatedly spoken out against

  • Act Six scholar Andre Jones ‘22 grows leadership skills through outreach https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2021/02/02/act-six-scholar-andre-jones-22/

    this. Whether you go to PLU, Morehouse, Howard, or whatever, it’s OK, you’re not alone.”Invest in Change-MakersThis spring, members of the community and PLU alumni, family and friends are invited to boldly invest in students like this through the expansion of the Act Six scholarship program. Learn more at www.plu.edu/change-makers. Palmer article: Read Previous PLU’s Lathiena Nervo discusses her work and being named one of the “1,000 inspiring Black scientists in America” Read Next Brian Lander ’89

  • PLU student team finishes in the top five at international math modeling competition https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2023/06/16/plu-excelled-marathon-contest-math-modeling/

    Sustainability Development Goals and to illustrate how progress on one goal might influence the others. Their innovative solution—explained in a 23-page pulled together on the last day of the competition and summarized, “Network of goals; a forest of numbers; an ONION.; and in the end, poverty was the root of the problem”—earned them a top award from the Mathematical Association of America. Beyond being intellectually intense, the competition is also physically grueling; students usually sleep no more than

  • Brian Sung ’24 discusses his business and econ majors, Oxford trip, and PLU experience as a first ge https://www.plu.edu/news/archive/2024/03/15/brian-sung-business-economics-senior/

    Oregon, but I found a great, flourishing Asian community here that I can call my friends. It is a place that makes me feel like I can be me. Who impacted you the most at PLU? Dr. Sailu Lulu Li has been my biggest mentor. She is also from China. Dr. Lulu jump-started my finance career and walked me through how to navigate America as a first-generation Chinese immigrant, especially in the field of finance. You started as a business major with a concentration in accounting but switched to a

  • New Student To-Do’s https://www.plu.edu/nso/new-student-checklist/

    scholarships have a matching scholarship from your church or through Scholarship America/Dollars for Scholars are a recipient of the Washington State College Grant There are important steps that you must take to finalize your financial aid. Visit the Student Financial Services ‘New Student Financial Aid Steps’ webpage to review and complete these steps.New Student Financial Aid StepsSign up for electronic billing — August 1Financial Services will send monthly electronic billing statements to your PLU email

  • Alternative Spring Break: US/Mexico Border Immersion Program https://www.plu.edu/prism/alternative-spring-break-usmexico-border-immersion-program/

    with a work or travel visa would mean a “15- to 25-year wait for some, and an impossibility for most”; of a man who pursued the “American dream,” by bringing his family to America years ago, “where he then enrolled his daughter in a good school, got his GED, worked hard to support his family, and generally became a productive member of his church and community.” On the other hand, students described how these people are also subject to an immigration system: where law-abiding persons, such as the

  • Pave the Way – ResoLute: Spring 2018 https://www.plu.edu/resolute/spring-2018/pave-the-way/

    better able we are to improve society. Diversity in profession and education benefits everyone.” Chávez said her speech at the conference focused on the findings of her most recent book project, which is due out in 2019. The book, titled Latino Professional Success in America: Public Policies, People, and Perseverance, explores how first-generation Latinos became professionals, their experiences as professionals amid the country’s institutional racism, and the policies and programs this group

  • Learning and Teaching with Professor Xi Zhu https://www.plu.edu/prism/news/learning-and-teaching-with-professor-xi-zhu/

    to further pursue his graduate degree with a focus on pre-modern Chinese manuscripts. He notes that people are often stumped by this part of his story. Zhu recalls the many times he has been asked, ‘If your research topic is Chinese manuscripts, why are you here in America?’ Zhu’s simple reply to this question is “methodology.” He wanted to be trained in analyzing texts through the Western tradition, which he believes is unique in its linguistic approach and textual criticism. And with the

  • Gender, Sexuality, & Race Studies https://www.plu.edu/catalog-2023-2024/undergraduate-program/program-curriculum-information/gender-sexuality-race/

    taught as “Literature of the Raj” ENGL 217 when taught as “Asian-American Literature”; “Civil Disobedience: American Protest Literature of Race and Justice” ENGL 380 when taught as “Global Refugee Literature” IHON 112: Liberty, Power, and Imagination NAIS 363: Race and Indigeneity POLS 288 when taught as “Latino Experience in America” POLS 365: Racial and Ethnic Politics POLS 370: Prisons & Prisoners PSYC 335: Cultural Psychology PSYC 387 when taught as “Race, Anti-Racism, and Child Development” RELI

  • Evening Readings 2017 https://www.plu.edu/mfa/evening-readings-2017/

    novels include: Hunger in America, a New York Times Notable Book, X Out of Wonderland, and Freeman Walker, both Montana Book Award Honor Books, and Ben Armstrong’s Strange Trip Home, a gold medalist in the 2013 Independent Book Publishers Book Awards. The winner of the Montana Arts Council’s Artist Innovation Award in 2010, his stories and poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines, and his travel articles in Outside Magazine and the New York Times Sophisticated Traveler. Cates is the