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From foster care to doctoral degree: Lizbett Benge’s educational journey Posted by: bennetrr / July 29, 2020 July 29, 2020 By Kolby Harvey '08Guest Writer for PLU Marketing and CommunicationsLizbett Benge ’11 describes her educational journey as “a long and winding road.” It began with her immersion into foster care and deeply influenced her time at PLU, where she grappled with a set of life experiences few of her peers could understand.Benge felt socially isolated, making few significant
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came from a bad situation, but I’m doing alright now.” The road to graduation was filled with challenges for Reyes. The journey she embarked on years ago to earn her diploma is one, she says. It helped give her the strength to become the type of social worker her clients could relate to. At 11 years old she was drinking alcohol and by age 15 she was addicted to drugs. Reyes bounced around from home to home as a teenager, suffering from severe depression after her mother died when she was 11. Her
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A Flutist’s Unplanned Path to Success Posted by: Mandi LeCompte / August 21, 2014 Image: Internationally renowned flutist Jodie Rottle ’10 advises undergraduates without a clear plan to pause, make slow progress and explore as many new possibilities as they can. (Photo courtesy Jodie Rottle) August 21, 2014 Jodie Rottle ’10 Finds Fame Even Without a Direct Roadmap By Shunying Wang ’15 and Sandy Deneau Dunham, PLU Marketing & Communications As far as Jodie Rottle ’10 can recall, she started to
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Calendar Alumni News Thank you to all the alumni who came home to visit campus Nov. 2-4 In addition to annual events like the football game and PLU on Tap, there were more events than ever that brought alumni and students together over the weekend. Students look to alumni as mentors and value the knowledge and experiences alumni share about their time on campus and their life after PLU. Alumni find value in being a resource to students, as well as staying connected to the PLU community. Homecoming 2018
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Calendar Alumni News Thank you to all the alumni who came home to visit campus Nov. 2-4 In addition to annual events like the football game and PLU on Tap, there were more events than ever that brought alumni and students together over the weekend. Students look to alumni as mentors and value the knowledge and experiences alumni share about their time on campus and their life after PLU. Alumni find value in being a resource to students, as well as staying connected to the PLU community. Homecoming 2018
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PLU alumna addresses diversity, equity, inclusion as inaugural administrator at Pierce College Posted by: Kari Plog / May 2, 2018 Image: Oneida Blagg ’82 and ’91 May 2, 2018 By Helen Smith '19PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (May 2, 2018) — Oneida Blagg — Pierce College’s first director of equity, diversity and inclusion — says her commitment to those issues started long before she pioneered this new position at the community college.Blagg’s parents raised her to be politically aware
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& Student Connections has gone virtual to make sure resources to help you through those and related issues remain available despite remote learning and physical distancing mandates.Kevin Andrew, PLU’s Director of Career, Learning and Engagement, is part of a Connections team that helps Lutes build their own career vision — then connects them to the opportunities, resources and people that can help make those dreams a reality. We connected with Andrew to explore Alumni & Student Connections’ virtual
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A Universal Language: Cassio Vianna shares a passion he discovered in Brazil with students at PLU Posted by: Zach Powers / June 5, 2022 June 5, 2022 By Anneli HaralsonResoLute Guest WriterCassio Vianna has been a teacher since he was 8 years old. At that time, his mother was learning to play the organ and Vianna decided to go with her to her lessons rather than stay at home with his siblings. “To this day, my mom loves to tell the story of how, when she practiced at home, I would correct her
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community, the only indigenous group in Norway, and a group that has long been discriminated against in Norwegian culture. Efforts were undertaken in the mid-1800s to exterminate their language and way of life. Children were taught in schools that Sámi — depicted back then as small, scrawny and sickly — were inferior. This socially constructed idea of race was taught at Norwegian universities until the 1940s, Storfjell said. It’s why Storfjell, who passes as white in the United States, nevertheless
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Records Retention Schedule (Vital Records)In order to provide for the continuity and preservation of Pacific Lutheran University, each elected and appointed officer of the university shall designate those documents which are essential records of his office and needed in an emergency and for the reestablishment of normal operations after any such emergency. A list of such records shall be forwarded to the archivist. This list shall be reviewed at least annually by the elected or appointed
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