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Black History Month: Seeking (a Supreme Court) Justice Posted by: Holly Senn / February 2, 2022 February 2, 2022 (CNN)- President Joe Biden committed to nominating the nation’s first Black female Supreme Court justice, as he honored retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer at the White House on Thursday. “The person I will nominate will be someone with extraordinary qualifications, character, experience and integrity. And that person will be the first Black woman ever nominated to the
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changing the way her students learned by building a program model from scratch. “Nobody’s teaching psych nurse practitioners in their curriculum like we are (at PLU),” Moller said. “Rather than interspersing therapy courses with assessment, diagnosis, and psychopathology, I wanted to approach the curriculum in the same way we do it in practice.” When an ARNP first meets a patient, they have to figure out what’s wrong (complete a thorough psychiatric diagnostic evaluations), then come up with a
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Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT)Working in the field of therapy and mental health is an important career, providing support and help to those in crisis and working toward a more diverse, inclusive, and healthy society. If you are hoping to enter a new career that allows you to improve people’s mental and physical health and address the vulnerability of our communities today, you should consider a career in Marriage and Family Therapy. According to BLS, the median annual wage for marriage and family
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TACOMA, WASH. (August 24, 2015)- This week, PLU introduced “Open to Interpretation,” a new podcast devoted to exploring the meanings and implications of words commonly used in the news, on social media and on college campuses. Hosted by Associate Professor of Communication Amy Young, each…
entire curriculum for the Ph.D. was a Friday afternoon seminar/introduction to the department/introduction to the field. Each week, the faculty member in charge of the class would pick a topic that was “hot” in communication, and ask two other faculty members to discuss the topic from their respective theoretical or methodological or practical standpoints—for instance, “activism” or “engagement” or “campaigning” or whatever. The idea was to let graduate students see how scholars approach a topic and
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November 1, 2010 Ramstad Scholarship a fitting tribute to a PLU leader By Greg Brewis Gifts in memory of a loved one are a cherished part of the close relationship with the university that are often built by PLU families. There is surely no more poignant example of this than the establishment of an endowed scholarship by family and friends in memory of Marvin J. Ramstad ’38. The scholarship is the recognition and reaffirmation of the significance of one young man’s college experience, an
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TACOMA, WASH. (April 26, 2016)- Joel Zylstra said Pacific Lutheran University’s partnership with the nonprofit Habitat for Humanity began with a cup of coffee at 208 Garfield four years ago. Zylstra, director of Center for Community Engagement & Service (CCES), said his perception of Habitat…
PLU works with local Habitat for Humanity to build lasting partnership, sustainable community, homes for people in need Posted by: Kari Plog / April 26, 2016 Image: Volunteers, including some from PLU, secure and align a wall at a Habitat for Humanity build site in the Woods at Golden Given, a sustainable 30-home housing community. The house was built for a student who, at the time, was studying marriage and family therapy. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) April 26, 2016 By Brooke Thames '18PLU
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which the intellectual historian Leonard Krieger, in his recent book Time’s Reasons: Philosophies of History Old and New (1989), speaks of a contemporary “crisis” of faith in the notion of historical truth. He writes: The most potent contemporary influence on the discipline of history . . . is the challenge to the very substance of the historical approach to life that has been mounted by antithetical agents of the general culture. What is new and especially lethal in the current rejection of history
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TACOMA, WASH. (April 15, 2016)- Art makes people feel. Art offers a window into the hearts and minds of those who create it, and invokes emotion for those who view and admire it. For Edvard Munch, those feelings were complicated and, often times, dark. “…
exhibition.Munch, a Norwegian artist, is best known for the famous painting “The Scream,” but much of his art encompasses the same approach. The artist focused on love, relationships, anxiety and other deeply emotional themes that resonate in the names of the pieces, in addition to the art itself: Lovers at the Seaside, Alpha’s Despair, Separation II, Angst, Two Human Beings: The Lonely Ones and more. The exhibit at TAM focuses on Munch’s relationship with the sea and its symbolism in his works. “His
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experience for them. The MFT program extends beyond what some might think. In addition to couples and marital issues, the student therapists help in addressing family, parenting, depression, anxiety, divorce, trauma, communication, anger management, sex and sexuality, grief and loss, and drug and alcohol issues. Being able to address such a large spectrum of needs over the last two-plus years has been a benefit to more than 500 people who have sought therapy at the program’s East Campus location at the
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in the world of fine art. She studied art and architecture at Cooper Union, Parsons and the Art Students League in New York, as well as drawing at the École Supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris, before launching Gage. Married to a painter and colleague/mentor/friend to multiple artists, curators, collectors and gallery owners, Belyea brings a well-informed, practical approach to the business of working artists. The four-part presentation will take place in Ingram Hall 100 and is open to the public
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