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  • isn’t to have students leave with answers, but with tools to ask these types of questions, according to Eva Frey Johnson, Dean for Student Development, Director of Student Involvement and Leadership, and Explore! co-coordinator. “Students really enjoy the retreat,” Johnson said. “They leave with a better sense of how PLU can support them and how they can support themselves.” The program was started nine years ago as part of the Wild Hope Project and later institutionalized by the office of Student

  • Sirine Fodstad spent nearly two decades traveling the world for work. But her story starts and ends in Norway, where she is a global human resources director for the Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund.

    Grand Hotel on the city’s main street, she fondly recalled running into Chuck Nelson, the man responsible for attracting many Norwegian international students to Pacific Lutheran University. During their meeting in 1993, Nelson recited his pitch to Fodstad about the American institution of Lutheran higher education — founded by Norwegian immigrants — and she was sold. “A couple of months later I was enrolled and started my first class on a beautiful fall campus,” she said. “My first trip to America

  • OverviewThe textbook provision within the 2008 reauthorization of the Higher Education Opportunities Act (HEOA) is designed to ensure students have access to affordable course materials. The PLU Lute Locker is required to ensure compliance with HEOA on behalf of the university. This federal mandate requires information regarding course textbooks and materials be available to students prior to beginning registration for those specific classes. Knowledge of course material requirements helps

  • Yannet Urgessa ’16 has lived on three continents and speaks five languages. But it took coming to PLU for her to feel comfortable in her own skin for the first time.

    proactively avoid common pitfalls, such as students forming cliques with peers from the same country. She intentionally came to PLU without friends in tow, and encourages the same mentality among the international students she advises. #LutesAwayView social media posts by Lutes who are making a difference all over the world. “It’s just so comfortable to fall back on what you know,” she said. For a year and a half, Urgessa lived in Hong International Hall, an immersive living and learning community that

  • September 23, 2012 International students experience the wonders of the Puyallup Fair with “Heart Stoppingly Good” food. (Photos by Jesse Major ’14) International students eat up American culture By Katie Scaff ’13 With all the exhibits, animals, rides and fried foods, there’s no one way to “do the Puyallup.” This was apparent from the time a group of international students walked through the gates at the fair Saturday morning. Some, daunted by the sheer size of the fair, grabbed programs with

  • Study away programs don’t just take students to countries around the world. Some Lutes stay right in PLU’s backyard.

    launched this semester. (In a good way, he added). Zylstra’s the director of the Center for Community Engagement and Service, which houses the new program. The study away experience, the newest Gateway program through the Wang Center for Global Education, is the result of three years of intensive planning. It started with an idea in the early 2000s to provide living and learning re-entry for students who study away and gain a rich new perspective. In 2003, Zylstra said students coming back from the

  • Career services at PLU positions students and alumni to succeed by linking them to the right resources, advisors, opportunities, and employers.

    an appointment with one of our highly skilled Career & Internship Advisors. Our advisors specialize in a wide range of invaluable services, including: Crafting compelling resumes and cover letters Guiding you in your job and internship search Exploring majors and careers Preparing you for interviews Providing insights on salary negotiation Assisting you in your graduate school search Helping Peace Corps Prep Students through their application process …and more! Book your appointment through the

  • Instructions for FacultyScheduling a test Communicate with the student to determine the day and time the exam will take place Fill out the Proctor Card (linked below) and submit it 24 hours before the exam start time. Send the exam to the Testing Center (choose one of the following two options): Bring a printed copy to the front desk in the Center for Student Success. The proctor will pick it up from the desk before the exam and give it to the student in the Testing Center. There will be

  • About Community for Creative Expression Marley (Second Year Student, Resident of Hinderlie Community for Creative Expression) “I love that, in Hinderlie, I can walk down the hall and say ‘Hi’ and talk to almost everyone I pass because I actually know the people I live with.” Creativity and Innovation Across Disciplines.The Community for Creative Expression (CCE) challenges students to explore the meaning of creativity and innovation in our world and promotes creativity as a mechanism of

  • they did.” So he decided to prepare for medical school. For someone with aspirations to serve in the medical pro­fession, he was doing all the right things. And by partici­pating in PLU’s pre-professional health sciences program, his prognosis for success got even better. PLU doesn’t have a pre-med major, per se. It has a pre-pro­fessional health sciences program, which advises students one-on-one how to best build a course schedule that gives them the best chance at getting into a medical or