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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
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On October 9, 2019, the PLU community will welcome Sven Beckert of Harvard University to give the 15th Annual Dale E. Benson Lecture in Business and Economic History. The lecture will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Chris Knutson Lecture Hall, located in the…
of the United States in the nineteenth century, and global history. With Christine A. Desan, Professor Beckert is also the co-director of the Program on the Study of Capitalism at Harvard University. Professor Sven Beckert. Photo by Charlie Mahoney. Beckert’s bestselling book Empire of Cotton: A Global History (2015), is the first global history of the nineteenth century’s most important commodity. Empire of Cotton won the Bancroft Award, the Philip Taft Award, the Cundill Recognition for
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and status of a university in 1960; it appears on official university documents from 1960 to 2012. The design incorporates elements that symbolize the University’s heritage and mission, including a “Chi Rho,” an abbreviation of the first two letters of “Christ” in Greek; the book of knowledge; the lamp of learning; and an evergreen tree symbolizing the Pacific Northwest. The banner precedes the President’s Council, made up of the Provost and the Vice Presidents of the University.The Crowned Lion
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The Lightener of the Stars Choir of the West – Richard Nance, Conductor Order CDfrom Garfield Book Company at PLUThis CD includes selections from the 2011 tour to France and Germany, where the choir won top honors at the prestigious Harmonie Festival. Also included are works from the 2012 tour and performance at the American Choral Directors Association Northwestern Division Conference. The title work, The Lightener of the Stars, was composed by PLU graduate Jason Michael Saunders. The
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TACOMA, WASH. (Aug. 24, 2016)- The eighth episode of “Open to Interpretation” features a discussion of the word “civility” among host and Communication and Theatre Department Chair Amy Young, Assistant Professor of Politics and Government Kaitlyn Sill and Marriage and Family Therapy Department Chair David Ward.…
PLU faculty members discuss Pokémon, the presidential election, parenting and the meaning of “civility” Posted by: Zach Powers / August 24, 2016 August 24, 2016 TACOMA, WASH. (Aug. 24, 2016)- The eighth episode of “Open to Interpretation” features a discussion of the word “civility” among host and Communication and Theatre Department Chair Amy Young, Assistant Professor of Politics and Government Kaitlyn Sill and Marriage and Family Therapy Department Chair David Ward. “Open to Interpretation
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Altertumswissenschaft: The Science of Antiquity By Tyler Travillian After millenniums of sex and centuries of poetry, the love poem as understood by Shakespeare and Donne, and by Oxford undergraduates – the true-life confessions of the poet in love, immortalizing the mistress, who is actually the cause of the poem – that was invented in Rome… — The Invention of Love, Act 1, Tom Stoppard A History of Classics Classics is horizontal where other disciplines are vertical. All disciplines in the
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The Thorniley Collection of Antique Type, a massive donation to PLU’s Publishing and Printing Arts Program, has elevated the university’s letterpress resources.
type. “It’s one thing to read about it, but to actually work with it, that’s pretty incredible.” Solveig Robinson, director of the PPA program and associate professor of English, said the collection came to PLU “because we’re special.” “We’re still the only program in North America that combines pre-professional studies, history of the book and publishing arts,” Robinson said. “We work closely with (the School of Arts and Communication) and English to make sure students are well rounded.” Robinson
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“establishing justice” or “the blessings of liberty” found in the Preamble to the Constitution do not yet apply to everyone who lives in America. And so they challenge us to move away from punitive treatment of DREAMers, lifelong residents who were brought to the United States as children and raised here. Because now, these millions of undocumented youth are caught in a restrictive legal limbo. In her latest book “Living the DREAM: The Stories of Undocumented Latino Youth,” PLU professor Maria Chávez and
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The Callista Brown Common Reading Lecture invites a scholar, author, or artist in late September to speak about the themes in the Common Reading book.
New Student Orientation Guide, and their peers to discuss the Common Reading book and learn strategies for academic success at PLU. The 2021-2022 academic year Common Reading book will be the critically acclaimed graphic novel, The Best We Could Do by Thi Bui. In this timely and breathtaking memoir, Bui explores her experiences as a daughter of Vietnamese immigrants who escaped the fall of Saigon in 1975. Her book describes how she has come to understand her family’s history and her sometimes
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Friends of 88.5 FM and Pacific Lutheran University reach agreement for the sale of KPLU Contributions of $7 million from 18,000 donors preserve KPLU as an independent, community-licensed public radio station Tacoma, WA — Pacific Lutheran University and Friends of 88.5 FM, a nonprofit community…
Friends of 88.5 FM and Pacific Lutheran University reach agreement for the sale of KPLU Posted by: Lace M. Smith / June 28, 2016 Image: Neeb Center at PLU as seen from Tingelstad Hall. (John Froschauer/PLU) June 28, 2016 Friends of 88.5 FM and Pacific Lutheran University reach agreement for the sale of KPLUContributions of $7 million from 18,000 donors preserve KPLU as an independent, community-licensed public radio station Tacoma, WA — Pacific Lutheran University and Friends of 88.5 FM, a
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