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interdependent with the well-being of those around them and also with their environment. How have you approached your recent efforts to help retention at PLU?I think of retention work as harm reduction. It’s thinking about how I can create, co-create, or positively influence policy changes and new efforts that will mitigate harm, particularly for kids of color. We’ve got to do less harm. Especially to Black, Latinx and other groups for whom PLU — and higher education across the country — was not designed

paper and crows. [4] PLU’s Mortvedt Library The ironies of our Time Being, brought to imaginative expression, perhaps lie in our increasing forgetfulness of the humanizing gifts from the past. Even the meaning of liberal arts education has become confused and debased by the contemporary industrialization of education. The Humanities embody the two central concerns of liberal education traced by Bruce Kimball in his history Orators and Philosophers [5]: recollection and the study of words. In the

examine the personal and big-picture capacity to withstand and overcome the stress and devastation related to trauma. “There is building interest in understanding the conditions that make it possible for individuals, communities, organizations, institutions and organisms to overcome adversity,” said Tamara Williams, Professor of Hispanic Studies and Executive Director of the Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education. “While varied, the events and programs that will be featured as part of

, the scholarship is expanded to include students from anywhere in Washington State.Throughout the past few years, a small Lutheran university in Tacoma’s Parkland neighborhood has quietly cemented its status as a trendsetter in higher education. Currently ranked number one in Washington state for financial aid by LendEDU and third in the west for “Best Value” by U.S. News and World Report, PLU has doubled-tripled-and-quadrupled down on its commitment to access and enrollment equity by rolling out a

Engineering Education Research National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure Redox Biology Sustainability of Horizontal Civil Networks in Rural Environments Virology Students can apply for up to three different research groups. Priority review of applications begins Thursday, February 1 and all applications are due by Friday, March 1. https://srp.unl.edu/Application We actively encourage applications from students historically underrepresented in graduate education. However, please be aware that, due

Engineering Education Research National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure Redox Biology Sustainability of Horizontal Civil Networks in Rural Environments Virology Students can apply for up to three different research groups. Priority review of applications begins Thursday, February 1 and all applications are due by Friday, March 1. https://srp.unl.edu/Application We actively encourage applications from students historically underrepresented in graduate education. However, please be aware that, due

on stage wasn’t too nerve-racking. “I knew a lot of people. It was more like singing for my friends,” he said. Kalohelani got his singing start last year when he came to PLU. He’s currently a member of the Choir of the West and a music education major. PLU Idol is sponsored by the Residence Hall Association. Read Previous New nursing labs raise the bar Read Next South Sound colleges lead way to green future COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might

,” said Greg Youtz, primary author of the grant and a member of the Chinese Studies Committee. “We are enormously pleased to have been funded for the second round and are excited to continue our work begun six years ago.” With a match from the university, the grant will provide $300,000 over three years for Chinese studies education for PLU faculty and local-area high school teachers, continue the enhancement of China-based curriculum in classrooms, and support China workshops here and travel tours to

partnership, it is a perfect fit, Robins said. The non-profit organization hauls away those hard-to-dispose-of tech items and refurbishes them for community organizations in need of, let’s say, a computer. If the items aren’t able to be reused for education, work training, etc. then the products are broken down into reusable plastic, glass and so on. “Anything that can be reused is our number one priority,” said Steve Vinzant, with Tru Recycle. That way those items don’t end up in a landfill, he said

education class 8:05 A.M. Ms. Dozier’s eighth grade literature class 9 A.M. Assistant Principal Heinen’s office 9:52 A.M. Mr. Homfeldt’s eighth grade history class 11:15 A.M. Mr. MacDougall’s seventh grade language arts class 11:20 A.M. Cascade Middle School cafeteria 1:05 P.M. Mr. McNeese’s gym class Story by Chris Albert and Barbara Clements Photos by Jordan Hartman Read Previous Biologist use Murdock grants to study birds, fish Read Next Looking into the laws behind adoption COMMENTS*Note: All