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knew he wanted to study music, but he wasn’t interested in teaching.“At the time I was doing a general music major and considering minoring in communication or business,” Lindhartsen said. “But through my involvement with LASR (PLU’s student radio station) I was able to explore the music community and learn about careers outside of composition, performance and education.” He credits conversations with music professor Greg Youtz, an inspirational songwriting and production course, and his experience

time it’s something people are dependent on,” he said. “The goal is gone from me being able to pay from school to actually making a difference for other students.” Mbugua, who was born in Kenya but grew up in Kent and Federal Way, has an entrepreneurial streak and sees his app as the first step toward future business ventures. He also gets to be his own boss, which is something that’s important to him. “Tech companies like Google, they treat their employees very well, but at the end of the day

) KonopaskiMajor: Business Administration with a concentration in Finance. Hometown: Port Angeles, Washington. Accomplishments at PLU: PLU single-season record holder in saves and ERA, PLU career record holder in saves and ERA; Northwest Conference record holder in single-season saves and career saves; three-time First Team All Northwest Conference relief pitcher; 2014 d3baseball.com First Team All-American relief pitcher; 2014 ABCA Second Team All West Region pitcher; 2015 d3baseball.com Preseason First Team

hired to teach music somewhere in the Northwest. Elementary, secondary, band, orchestra, choir – I just want to teach music! Heidi Weston – Bachelor of Arts in business administration Why PLU? I came to PLU because I wanted to stay in the Pacific Northwest, play tennis, attend an esteemed university with small class sizes, and be able to become a part of an involved community. PLU was extremely unique in the sense that it let me do all of these things. My mom graduated from PLU in 1976, so she was

Development joined in launching Project Access, and now over $500,000 has been raised to fund a total of 143 Project Access Scholarships. Both last fall, and again during spring semester, our admission, student services, academic advising, student life, financial aid and business offices organized special programs to bolster retention by working with both current and prospective students on personal and financial planning issues. These efforts were supported by faculty and staff across the campus who were

interested in making key trade and business alliances with other countries, and ignores what might be happening in a humanitarian or ecological sense within that country. “They have a very strict policy of non interference in other countries’ affairs in that way,” Youtz noted. China’s currency may eventually become the standard by which all other currencies are measured, Jacques noted. And the country will, and already has begun to influence the G20, which is fast outstripping the power of the G7

. It’s never dismissed.” Krise said he plans to continue teaching one course a year. He’s currently developing a J-term 2014 class on management lessons from literature. Prior to coming to PLU, he co-taught the course for six years with a business professor. In next year’s course he will take the class to Washington D.C. so they can connect with former Lutes working in government. “I love the combination of tying in internships and co-ops with management lessons from literature, which neatly ties my

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covered. “I tend to like the flavored stuff,” she says with a laugh. “I’d never tried Heritage products before we started working with them, but I’m a millennial so I’m their target — which was good for our work!” PLU's Master of Science in Marketing AnalyticsPart of PLU’s prestigious School of Business, the cutting edge, STEM-designated MSMA program offers an innovative analytics degree with an emphasis on marketing.Request More InformationAttend an Info Session Read Previous ‘Butterfly Confessions

she was highly impressed with the level of collaboration exhibited by this year’s student competitors. This year’s competition was held in PLU’s Morken Center, and required coordination from a number of departments and offices, as well as the School of Business. Emeritus professors allowed students to use their offices during the competition, campus safety gave students all-hours access to the building, and the Math department and Natural Sciences Division funded student registrations and provided