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Library. The photo exhibition, created and sponsored by the Munich-based White Rose Foundation (Weiße Rose Stiftung), chronicles the brief yet intense history of the White Rose resistance movement against the Nazi regime. The exhibit is currently on tour across the United States and comes to PLU during the university’s renowned Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education, March 12-14. According to exhibit organizers, The White Rose was a small, nonviolent resistance group formed in 1942 by

hear in history class has really happened to this woman.” Shannon Kelley ’18 said. “Knowing the mass deaths of the Holocausts already had an impact on me, but this made it personal.” For more information about Weissberger’s story, visit the March 2014 profile at The Seattle Times. Children's Voices: The Holocaust & BeyondThe Eighth Annual Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education: March 3-6 at PLU Read Previous PLU Faculty Members to Present at TEDx Tacoma Read Next PLU’s School of Nursing

were interrupted by a two-year stint of active military service at then-Fort. Lewis here in Washington, he found himself a transplant in Tacoma — and began a love affair with the city that continues to this day. The rest, he says, is history — he still enjoyed working with young people, so in 1960 he restarted his teaching career in Washington.Stewart faced many challenges as a black educator during the time period of the the Civil Rights Act and desegregation — “the lack of education, the lack of

the two organizations signed a Memorandum of Understanding earlier this year. Notable Speakers Dr. Yehuda Bauer, Emeritus Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, is the doyen of Holocaust studies. At the age of 95, Dr. Bauer continues to drive academic discussion and research with his numerous publications and lectures.  Dr. Christopher Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor Emeritus of History at the University of

experiences that are put into action immediately,” said Mark Mulder, Dean of the PLU School of Business. “Our high ranking in U.S. News & World Report, and previous ranking from the Princeton Review, demonstrates we are successfully providing the high-quality education and global experience that industry, and our students, strongly desire.”Business education has always been a fundamental aspect of PLU. Throughout the university’s history, the business programs have upheld their quality and commitment to

honored at the national conference level through selection and performance at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. The six PLU students who will perform GIRL POOL in the upcoming Dance 2018: Storytelling performance make up the fourth cast of dancers in the history of the dance piece. Read Previous The party has just begun with Theatre’s production, Love’s Labour’s Lost Read Next PLU Theatre focuses on growth in upcoming Shape of Things LATEST POSTS Theatre Professor Amanda Sweger Finds Family in the

campus for both his passion for student learning and also his knack for teaching design principles to all students, including those lucky enough to be Design majors in the B.F.A. program. Avila’s influence on PLU’s Innovation Studies program is significant. Because of his guidance, all students working toward the Innovation Studies minor must develop essential skills in either Communications or Design, in addition to the essential coursework that they take in business, economics, history, and ethics

, as the old joke goes, the extent of diversity on campus, was Swedes, Danes and Norwegians. But as the university began to grow, both in student population and in recognition, the make-up of the student population began to change. A lot of this has to do with PLU’s history. PLU always had an international focus inasmuch as it was very connected to Norway. By the late ’70s, things were beginning to fundamentally change – PLU was becoming more globally focused. By the early ’80s, according to Phil

degrees of separation from one person. “You know a lot more people than you think, and can impact,” Waller said. The Third Annual Holocaust Conference was kicked off Thursday night by an examination of the slave labor camps the Germans set up around Poland and Germany to power their war machine. Prof. Christopher Browning, Frank Porter Graham Professor of History at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, and a former PLU professor who taught in the university’s history department for 25

again. “China did change my life, and it changed me and offered me a chance to look deep within myself and accept that invitation to think differently and feel differently about my world and myself, Ford said.“In China, I didn’t speak Chinese, know anything about the philosophy, history or culture, but I told myself, I was going to take a risk, even if it means trying something I didn’t want to do.” Looking back, two years later, Ford is so glad he did. He’s now six months into his Fulbright