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Media student serves and learns simultaneously Posted by: Todd / December 14, 2015 Image: Photo by Angelo Mejia ’17 December 14, 2015 By Matthew Salzano ’18 PLU Marketing & Communications InternTACOMA, Wash. (Dec. 11, 2015)—Communication major Chris Boettcher ’17 is living out the deeply held commitment of Pacific Lutheran University to civic engagement — all while continuing his education.When Cathy Nguyen, Tacoma poet laureate, reached out to PLU looking for a videographer to tell the story
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month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.” – John Lewis Black and African American students are invited to apply to the Good Trouble Fund for funds that support their engagement in academic and co-curricular activities such as study away, student/faculty research, professional associations dues, and co-curricular involvement. Up to $500 funds are available to students on a rolling basis as they are
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collectively organize major themes and takeaways from the week (providing points as motivation). Or, personal notes could be used periodically to create a collective study guide, where each group member contributes to a document designed for exam preparation. Collective note taking is a great example of an active learning practice that can increase student engagement with content and peers. If you can imagine some benefits and uses for collaborative note taking, I encourage you to give it a try. For
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experiment with fiber arts, sewing, painting, welding, electronics, graphic design, and more. How does it work?Foundation courses in the program build essential skills to understand the process of innovation in historical and ethical contexts, and to learn fundamental concepts in design thinking, community engagement, and entrepreneurship. A community Makerspace builds practical skills and fosters a sense of teamwork, collaboration, and creativity. A concluding seminar requires that students work in
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against humanity are phenomena that command serious study and civic engagement. Individualized Major The individualized major offers students the chance to design and propose their own program of study, charting a course through PLU’s curriculum that allows them to pursue their interests and prepare for their future. Languages & Literatures PLU offers majors and minors in Chinese, Classics (Greek and Latin), French, German, Norwegian, and Spanish (Hispanic and Latino Studies). Students can develop
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this claim seriously – that a significant dimension of faculty, staff, and student development is hearing and responding to the call of being with and caring for others rather than living in splendid isolation or imagining one’s “vocation” as service to the self alone. To that end, our educational mission emphasizes an essential relationship between rigorous learning and engagement with this world, not one without the other. Thus, a degree from a Lutheran college equips students to consider how
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corresponding emphasis on responsibility to others permeates the Lutheran culture of world engagement. Thus, Lutherans have established schools (from pre-kindergarten through graduate level universities) and seminaries. They have created hospitals, orphanages, retirement centers, and long-term care facilities. Lutherans in the United States are diligent and vital leaders in humanitarian and religious efforts to feed the hungry, diminish poverty, and eradicate disease – both here and in developing nations
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, serving both young and old, poetry is a guide to deliver us into a fresh engagement with our inner lives and with modernity. If we care about order and disorder, then poetry matters because it is the art of the utterance of beauty and the grotesque. If we care about the deepest aspirations of men and women across every community and culture, language and race, then poetry is always relevant because it is the art of the utterance of what we share in our innermost psyches. Since culture and society
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simply helping people discover what they already knew. I finally came to understand that’s what teaching creative writing is. My job as a writing mentor is to bring the toolbox, both literal and metaphorical. It might include kitchen utensils, glue stick and scissors, postcards, advertisements, original works of art, bottled scents, raw vegetables, or items from a recycle bin or thrift shop. It includes world literature, direct engagement with working writers, and concepts borrowed from linguistics
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. (Wellesley Centers for Women), the leadership team, including STAIR developer Marylene Cloitre, Ph.D. (National Center for PTSD Dissemination and Training Division), will refine a culturally-informed adaptation of STAIR for implementation in UCCs which was developed during a previous engagement project. The project plans to train 345 University Counseling Center (UCC) providers in 31 centers, providing STAIR to an estimated 6,540 student clients, using an approach accommodating to the academic schedule
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