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through divisive elections.” That’s the approach PLU is taking moving forward, learning from the experiences that have cut Americans — including Lutes — deeply. The effort begins with compassionate listening, Krise said. He called for “talking circles” throughout the community, where people of differing viewpoints can come together in a space and listen to one another. The first gathering will take place Wednesday, Nov. 9, at 5 p.m. in Red Square. “These talking circles can lead to humanizing
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anti-racist organization. PLU: How did your time at PLU prepare you for the work you do now? Linde: Though I didn’t have a clear path for where my degree would take me, I realize now I was learning how to think about complex issues from more than one perspective, how to apply different lenses and how to communicate, all of which are central to my career today. Brian Naasz (Chemistry) helped me to not panic when I realized I didn’t want to be a “chemist” (and instilled in me the importance of always
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, who first met Dr. Wiegman as a first-year PLU graduate student and would go on to become Tacoma Public Schools’ first black principal and a school board member.“Gene was instrumental in bringing the teacher core program to PLU,” remembers Stewart. “It was a program for folks with a bachelor’s degree who wanted to switch careers and earn a master’s in teaching. In particular, it was designed to prepare people of color and others to be outstanding teachers in the inner city and urban communities
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faculty about teaching, learning, and technology. I often stumble upon great ideas that I would love to share with the PLU community. I know many of you also have ideas to share, so I have started a Twitter hashtag to facilitate this process. (Don’t know much about Twitter? Learn the basics here.) #PLUteaching is a place to share photos, videos, articles, blog posts, insights, and ideas with faculty teaching at our university. The hashtag can be used to highlight some the wonderful things going on in
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Faculty Resources: A New Library Collection Posted by: bodewedl / January 20, 2016 January 20, 2016 by Dana Bodewes, Instructional Designer To support the professional growth of PLU faculty, a new collection of “Faculty Resources” is now available on the first floor of the library. This small but mighty collection covers a range of topics related to teaching and learning in higher education. I have assembled an online list of books in the faculty resource collection, including links to each
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literary interests with my management job,” Krise explained. “I think any teacher will tell you that we wind up learning as much from the classroom environment and the students as students learn from us. That’s part of the happiness of teaching, you just learn a lot doing it,” Krise said. “It’s fun to do what you’re trained to do and like to do and [what’s] worth while.” Read Previous PLU welcomed into CFA Institute University Recognition Program Read Next Farewell Reception COMMENTS*Note: All comments
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, and the relationship of structures and processes to societal purposes.There are absolutely aspects of my undergraduate education that prepared me for law school. My time spent on the debate team at PLU was very helpful for a lot of the speech and advocacy work that I have to do as a part of my job. I was a political science major, so learning about the political process was helpful. Another thing that helped me a lot was doing the legislative internship for my capstone project during the spring
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divisions. “Endowment funds are the engine behind us,” Killen said. The funds provide student and faculty stipends and cover research and travel costs. “When donors choose a student-faculty research endowment as one of their options, they are making it possible for PLU to do the type of integrated teaching, learning, research, public engagement that is essential to the university carrying out its mission,” she continued. Among the many donors in attendance were Naomi and Don Nothstein, founders of the
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Brian Sung ’24 talks business, econ majors, Oxford adventure, and his unique PLU journey as a first-gen Chinese immigrant Posted by: mhines / March 21, 2024 March 21, 2024 By By Fulton Bryant-Anderson ’23 PLU Marketing & Communications Guest Writer Meet Brian Sung, a business major from the class of ’24 at PLU. When he’s not taking international honors courses or diving deep into his double majors in business and economics, he’s all about data science and statistics through his double minors
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Student-athlete makes entrepreneurship look like a piece of cake Posted by: vcraker / May 25, 2022 May 25, 2022 By Craig CrakerAsst. Sports Information Director Some people spent their COVID lockdown time learning to bake homemade bread or bingeing TV shows or, frankly, just trying to survive. Pacific Lutheran University junior Jasneet Sandhu spent the spring of 2021 learning to row and launching a business out of her family home.The Sandhu Cake Company is the brainchild of Jasneet and her
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