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The FAFSA Is Changing for 2024-25The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is the annual application to apply for financial aid at Pacific Lutheran University. For the 2024-25 academic year, the FAFSA is undergoing significant changes, a process known as FAFSA Simplification that was enacted by Congress in 2021. The FAFSA typically opens on October 1st, but for 2024-25, it will not be open until December 2023. In the meantime, we will be sending email communications to students and
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College (Fullerton, CA) Furman University (Greenville, SC) Garden City Community College (Garden City, KS) Gaston College (Dallas, NC) Gateway Community College (Phoenix, AZ) Gateway: Chengdu (Chengdu, China, People's Republic Of, ) Gateway: Namibia Program (Windhoek, Namibia, ) Gateway: Oaxaca (Oaxaca, Mexico, ) Gateway: Oslo (Oslo, Norway, ) Gateway: Oxford (Oxford, United Kingdom, ) Gateway: SE Norway Bo+Vestfold (Telemark, Norway, ) Gateway: Trinidad & Tobago (St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
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design characterizes the wide-ranging nature of James Holloway’s interests. Dr. James Holloway (1960-2001) was the University Organist and Professor of Organ and Church Music at Pacific Lutheran University where he served as a studio teacher, musicologist and choral conductor. He created the Mentorship Program for Vocations in Church Music at PLU and taught in the Honors and Freshman Experience programs. A mentally unstable assailant murdered Dr. Holloway on campus in 2001. The artist, Kathryn Wold
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national security interests of the United States. The region includes China, which is rapidly assuming prominence on the global stage. Rare are the days that go by without at least one news story on China. Given PLU’s Chinese language studies, its China summer Service Learning program, as well as other international programs sponsored by the Wang center, I thought I would devote a few minutes to this most fascinating country. For the past 20 years, China’s GDP has grown by an average of 9.0% per year
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Matt Rota of the Gulf Restoration Network and Andrew Barron of the Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program who both explained why we should be aware of this dissipating resource. With New Orleans sitting below sea level, catastrophic storms, such as Katrina in 2005, wreak havoc. So why would we not protect what could protect us? Wetlands act as a buffer for hurricanes and other tropical storms coming off the Gulf, decreasing their intensity and potential damage. However, as these wetlands
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saw the whole TED thing coming. Two years ago, a friend who’d done a TEDx event encouraged Hunt to apply for the fellowship. “I didn’t think much of it,” Hunt said—“yeah; yeah; like that’s ever going to happen.” Nonetheless, she “threw together” an application during a summer dig in Israel, figuring it was “good practice.” No need to get her hopes up. But then, last October, TED called for a couple of interviews. “I talked to them a lot,” Hunt said. “They were selling me on the program.” “That got
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right after graduating? PLU provided me with an abundance of clinical, hands-on experience that helped make the transition from school to work life less daunting. The nursing program really hones critical thinking skills and prepared me to take a more creative approach to problem solving. How did you choose Nursing as a field and a career? Nursing kind of jumped out at me when I looked at career lists. It was the career that I felt fit me best: flexible hours, good pay, physically active
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perfectly with the principles of diversity, justice, and sustainability. And one other way we remind ourselves of our mission to care is in our distinctive University Seal: note here on the lectern and on the inside front cover of your program, how the “L” in “Lutheran” reaches out under the “U,” suggesting the mission to care for you. I hope that as you make your way through this place and become a worthy member of our Lute community that you, too, will find ways to contribute to the culture of care
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a particular Learning Community or residence hall, we encourage you to learn more! If you are a prospective student or community member, feel free to explore our Learning Community (LC) web pages and/or email the Community Director who works with that LC. If you are a current student, we welcome you to come to a program, get to know the Residential Life staff and ask us questions, or get to know your peers who live there to understand why they chose that space and what they love about that
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Wang Center Research GrantsThe Wang Center Research Grant Program is designed to support students, faculty, and faculty-student teams that seek to conduct original research in an international setting. Consideration is also given to proposals seeking to conduct research within the United States on topics that underscore the connection of the local and global issues of diversity, social justice and sustainability. Proposals are reviewed by the Global Education Committee for recommendation to the
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