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Concert Hall on Nov. 11. Please see this link for a full listing of Veterans Day activities at PLU. Working in aviation as a Black Hawk helicopter mechanic crew chief, U.S. Army Sgt. Shumaker interacted directly with soldiers in the field, transferring them in and out, bringing supplies and locating enemies from the air for the front forces. He was part of history. “I wanted to be able to have the biggest effect possible,” said Shumaker, 38, who’s now a junior studying Political Science at Pacific

Alaska-Canada Highway,” which premiered at the Washington State History Museum in Tacoma and ultimately was broadcast regionally by KBTC, Tacoma’s local PBS affiliate, as well as other public broadcasting member stations across the nation. “Building Connections” also received a first-place award from the National Broadcasting Society. Originally, “Building Connections” was conceived as an academic journal article, or possibly a book. The film was not an intended part of the original project. “It was

in Tacoma, where students of color make up more than 60 percent of the population, more than 80 percent of the district’s teachers are white. Egenes has her students at Lincoln explore historical issues in education through an equity lens. Some of the topics they’ve researched include the history of Native American schools, the link between historic neighborhood redlining and school segregation, bilingual education and more. She asks her students to assess their own learning styles and ask

year really motivated both students and faculty, and we were able to bring that motivation into the classroom through applied projects. Faculty were able to bring these issues into discussions of literature, history, philosophy, ethics, and environmental equity. How have faculty, staff and students responded to that challenge? I’m continually amazed at how my colleagues pivoted so quickly to online classrooms, how they spent the entire summer learning very different kinds of pedagogies and

customers having to go to the store and talk to someone face-to-face — that impact was important to me,” he says. NETFLIX AND NO TIME TO CHILL A couple of weeks after his final interview, Ronquillo was sitting in a history class when he received a phone call. It was his recruiter asking him how the interview went. Ronquillo says he was disappointed, initially believing this was simply a check-in call, and not the offer he had been hoping to receive. But after listening to Ronquillo’s experience, the

standards. “Now that more people of color occupy places of prestige, the topic is becoming more prominent.”   Her capstone explores the U.S. history of Black hair discrimination, the mental and physical risks of conforming to Eurocentric beauty standards and hazards of discriminatory workplace, school and social work policies—along with promising developments such as state and federal CROWN acts. The 2023 CROWN (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair) Workplace Research Study found that

of its distinguished history. My thanks go to everyone here for being part of this special day and for caring about this institution and the precious people who make it what it is. I’d like to extend special thanks to my predecessors who join me today on the stage. We are honored to have Loren Anderson with us. His long and distinguished presidency bequeathed a robust and spirited institution. Eugene Wiegman is here as well. He had a transformational term as president and has continued to be a

classroom a week after the election. “This is where everyone is coming that cares the most. We’re going to get people with a lot of emotion and people who are extremely invested in this.” Sill and Schleeter urged the students to consider how social scientists would engage such an event, by recognizing the significance and trying to remain impartial. “We want to think of this as a very unique and amazing opportunity in which we are living and experiencing history as it’s unfolding in real time,” Sill

look like in the distant future—at, say, our sesquicentennial in 2040, or our bicentennial in 2090. Do we want to continue with exactly the current mixture of programs, degrees, enrollment figures, and so on?  If not, then in what direction should we go? And how shall we decide? …  One way we might proceed is to look back at our history and see if our founders might give us some guidance. The first president of Pacific Lutheran University, the Rev. Bjug Harstad, wrote in the first issue of The

investigating the major ideas and products in the history of computing and business. Our attention turned this week to the introduction of Apple’s breakthrough home-computing product, which emerged during the first surge of commercial PC innovation in the late 1970s. This era is also known for the release of the SOL-20 (1977), the Tandy TRS-80 (1977), the Commodore PET (1977), and (eventually) the IBM PC (1981). “To me, a personal computer should be small, reliable, convenient to use and inexpensive,” wrote