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Part-Time or Full-Time Contingent Faculty Positions for 2020-21: – Part-time positions for Clinical Faculty – Part-time contingent faculty positions in a variety of specialty areas, particularly medical-surgical nursing, nursing in the community, maternal-child/obstetrical nursing, and pediatrics. Please contact: Kathy Richardson Associate Dean of Academic Affairs School of Nursing – Ramstad 214 Pacific Lutheran University Tacoma, WA, 98447 (253)535-7695; richarkk@plu.edu
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TACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 4, 2016)- Kamari Sharpley-Ragin reluctantly admits that he used to joke about racism. The ninth-grader from Lincoln High School in Tacoma says it didn’t seem like a big deal, since he never really experienced overt discrimination himself. Now, he says he knows…
the United States 1896-2016” paired PLU students and teaching assistants with a self-selected group of students from Lincoln grades 9-12. The workshop-like course challenged them all to critically think about daily experiences with institutionalized racism and how to effectively confront those experiences. The class touched on civil rights history, as well as racially charged issues today. The students’ work culminated in an end-of-term “creative extravaganza,” in which groups presented visual
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assault,” said Woodman-Ross. “That’s what the It’s On Us campaign does—it helps to hopefully remold the responsibility of the university to reshape the culture around violence and that it’s not simply a women’s issue,” said Jennifer Smith, Director of the Women’s Center. “Everyone is impacted by violence, and everyone is responsible to speak up, act up, notice, and do something because if that becomes a cultural norm, people will know this isn’t tolerated on campus.” Smith said that with so much of
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semifinalists, some of whom I know and look up to,” said Haven, who’s in his fifth year as band director at Meeker, where he teaches 260 students at the elementary and middle-school levels, along with a before-school jazz band. At PLU, Micah played with the Wind Ensemble, Jazz Band, brass quintet and Trumpet Ensemble—and even then, he made quite an impression. “It makes me very proud to know that he is getting this well deserved recognition,” said Edwin Powell, PLU Associate Professor of Music and Director
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The Wang Center is dedicated to supporting faculty, students and staff with the resources necessary to advance PLU’s distinction and vision for global education of “educating to achieve a just,
, healthy, sustainable and peaceful world” through faculty development and grant opportunities, delivery of study away programs, on-campus programming on pressing world issues, and a commitment to best practices when engaging with education partners, both locally and globally.PLU is a globally focused university that remains committed to providing high quality study away programs as a high-impact experiential practice that enhances students’ capacity for critical thought, written and verbal expression
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lot,” he said. “Many of these creatures are small, and you’ll miss them if you’re not up close.” Then there are some sites that can only be viewed underwater. While diving in an Alaskan bay, the temperature gradients were so defined, Behrens looked down to see jellyfish “resting” with tentacles outstretched on a colder layer of water in a glacier-fed bay. Or in the Galapagos, seeing penguins flying underwater through the tropical fish and coral. “Seeing something you don’t expect – like penguins
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TACOMA, WASH. (August 24, 2015)- Hosted by Associate Professor of Communication Amy Young, “Open to Interpretation” is a new podcast devoted to exploring the meanings and implications of words commonly used in the news, on social media and on college campuses. The inaugural episode of…
Open to Interpretation: Advocacy (Episode 1) Posted by: Zach Powers / August 24, 2015 August 24, 2015 TACOMA, WASH. (August 24, 2015)- Hosted by Associate Professor of Communication Amy Young, “Open to Interpretation” is a new podcast devoted to exploring the meanings and implications of words commonly used in the news, on social media and on college campuses.The inaugural episode of OTI is a discussion of the word “advocacy” among Young, Associate Professor of Religion Kevin O’Brien and
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PLU alumna serves as interim director of Tacoma’s Rainbow Center.
into the position following six years of history with the organization. “I would describe it as a place where people can come and fully be themselves.” – Laura Brewer ’03 says of Tacoma’s Rainbow Center Brewer’s work is largely managerial. She begins the day by answering emails. When she’s through with her inbox, she moves on to the many meetings she holds with staff and other community leaders. She knew the director before her was busy with many emails and meetings, but didn’t realize just how
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Why Having a “Philosophy of Enrollment” Matters Posted by: Thomas Krise / March 8, 2016 March 8, 2016 This spring, the Strategic Enrollment Management Advisory Committee (known as SEMAC) will finalize PLU’s philosophy of enrollment, with the intention to ask our Board of Regents to adopt a final draft statement with enrollment targets in May. (See the current draft here on the Provost webpage.) SEMAC is a university standing committee with the responsibility to lead the development and the
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important issues, events, and trends that impact the PLU community. Our efforts to document and chronicle our collective experience will provide a first draft of university history. Our primary values in the performance of our duties are reflected in the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics and the TAO of Journalism. Student Media Executive ApplicationDue on Friday, April 19Student media is searching for the next team of student executives for all media outlets including The Mast, Mast TV
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