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international DJS work. Sponsored by Center for Community Engagement and Service, Career Connections, Wild Hope. Poverty Immersion Workshop Nov. 9 | 6-9 p.m. | AUC CK Interactive workshop to build an understanding and empathy of those experiencing poverty. Sponsored by the Center for Community Engagement and Service. Reflective Viewing: Finding the Divine Within You Feb. 23 | 7 p.m. | Ingram 100 Selected pages from the St. John’s Bible will be used to practice Visio Divina, a contemplative, repetitive
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today, you have come together in this great PLU learning community from 32 different states, and 14 different countries. Your membership represents the great diversity of the human family, religiously, ethnically, economically, five of you are only 20, and the oldest “real” graduate is 65, the oldest “honorary” grad is 66! You have done well at PLU! Today, 222 of your number are graduating with academic honors, 48 of you have completed the International Honors program, dozens have participated in
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don’t like to show, so I’ve learned to just internalize it. It’s how I’ve learned to keep living despite all that I’ve gone through.” “This is not a vacation. This is a trip that will redefine who I am.” I met David nine years ago, in an international conflict resolution class at Pacific Lutheran University. We quickly became friends and, eventually, roommates. The following summer he invited me to move into a house three blocks from campus, affectionately nicknamed “The Embassy.” It was home to
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needs to return to our national and international conversation. We’ve summarized all this into our mission statement: The mission of Pacific Lutheran University is to educate students for lives of thoughtful inquiry, service, leadership, and care—for others, for their communities, and for the earth. That’s a very Lutheran mission statement and I can tell you that everyone at PLU without exception is deeply committed to it. So when you wonder about whether Pacific Lutheran University is “Lutheran
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Female Recipient of Prestigious International AASP Award Read Next PLU Welcomes New Nursing Dean COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how they found it June 24, 2024 Kaden Bolton ’24 explored civics and public policy on campus and studying away in Oxford June 12, 2024
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International Honors social justice class and understanding that working toward a big amorphous goal like equity takes time and patience and allowing space for all the different problems that can come up. We also read the Myth of Sisyphus, where this guy is doomed to roll a boulder up a hill, watch it fall down and roll it back up, forever. And he eventually comes to find contentment in the fact that he has a job to do, something to find a purpose in. So, melding all that together (laughs)… Even though it’s
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professors well here. This helps so much during your first years, because often just a simply question or comment from them—often at a crucial moment in your program—can make all the difference. I’ve benefited a lot from the give-and-take of the PLU experience, especially in the individualized major that we created to pursue my career goals.” Marc: “Also, the study abroad programs organized through PLU are very rich. I’ve been able to study in Oxford, England, through our International Honors program at
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sprinkling of “liberal arts” courses and a single diversity or cross-cultural requirement, such as we presently have at PLU. Instead, she argues that it is meticulously designed liberal arts core programs with cross-cultural and global bases that attain this goal most successfully. A proud PLU student in Oxford, England, through the International Honors Program. In her book, Nussbaum suggests to us at PLU that our journey toward preparing students for living lives of world citizenship has only begun
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words, as large as a human teenager’s. Third, we used the narratives of our experiences and our photography to write several articles, exploring complex relations between the legal trade and the illegal trade. The legal trade, for example, offers cover for the illegal smuggling of birds, and the same people are often involved in both. Seth Dowland, Ph.D., and Clayton Bracht Department of Religion Sports, Christianity, and Manliness: Evolving Notions of Christian Manhood in the YMCA Kelmer-Roe
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have been able to explore countless opportunities and unveil who I am and what my role is in the world. What my vocation is and what it means to me. What’s next? I will be teaching fifth grade at the International School of Myanmar in Yangon, Myanmar, for the next two years, starting August 1. Mary Wuest – Bachelor of Science in nursing Mary Wuest ’11 – Bachelor of Science in nursing Why PLU? Both my parents are alumni. So I really didn’t want to be cliché, and I really tried to avoid coming to PLU
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