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  • PLU alumna serves as interim director of Tacoma’s Rainbow Center.

    Year and received a Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching. Each year, the Montana Teacher of the Year program recognizes a teacher who exemplifies the best in the teaching profession. It is the highest honor a Montana teacher can receive. Prior to taking a position as a virtual instructional coach, Anderson taught earth science, chemistry and physics at Powell County High School in Deer Lodge, and oceanography online through the Montana Digital Academy. In the classroom

  • Uncomfortable Truths: Introduction to Holocaust and Genocide Studies class examines the past to change the future Posted by: Zach Powers / January 17, 2023 Image: Holocaust survivor Peter Metzelaar speaks with PLU students in a course titled “Introduction to Holocaust & Genocide Studies.” (Photo courtesy of Professor Lisa Marcus) January 17, 2023 By Anneli HaralsonMarketing & Communications Guest Writer“There is nothing comfortable about studying genocide,” Beth Griech-Polelle, a Pacific

  • Study away as a first-year Posted by: Thomas Kyle-Milward / November 28, 2018 November 28, 2018 By Thomas Kyle-MilwardMarketing & CommunicationPlenty of experiences come to mind when thinking about first-year students settling into college life: making new friends, living on campus, exploring newfound independence. However, Pacific Lutheran University also wants to introduce students to a more outside-the-box opportunity in their first year on campus: studying away.“In a J-Term study away

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Feb. 19, 2016)- Pacific Lutheran University students may soon see their professors, dressed in commencement regalia, coming to classes with a special invitation to join one of the most prestigious honor societies in the nation. This week, PLU joined the ranks of schools…

    Dialogue expert Steinar Bryn to discuss international peacebuilding work that has deep ties to PLU Read Next Vote! Women’s Center seeks community feedback on new name COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS A family with a “Bjug” legacy of giving and service September 27, 2024 PLU hosts the 14th Annual Lutheran Studies Conference: Celebrating Cecelia Svinth Carpenter

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Oct. 14, 2016)- Laurel Minter, a Los Angeles-based, award-winning screenwriter and film director, will offer a beginners’ screenwriting workshop at PLU later this month. The workshop will educate students on how to craft screenplays using tools that most professional screenwriters use. The focus…

    . “It will be really helpful because there are not really a lot of resources on campus to help people with screenwriting,” said Emily Khilfeh, Showrunners’ head writer and director of photography. “I am really excited to learn about it. It is really different than other kinds of writing.” Showrunners at PLU, now in its fourth year, is a recent addition to the Center for Media Studies, located within the School of Arts and Communication. Showrunners, a student-run program focusing on quality TV

  • What’s in our room? With Jess Mason ’24 Posted by: mhines / March 11, 2024 March 11, 2024 Join Portland native, Jess Mason for a tour of their room in Hong Hall. Hong Global Hall is for local, national, and international students. Located in the middle of upper campus, it is home to a unique living/learning community consisting of six language and global engagement houses: Chinese, French, Global Studies, Indigenous Languages, Spanish, and the International Honors program.Check out Hong Hall

  • TACOMA, WASH. (March 31, 2016)- The state Legislature has adjourned, following a 60-day regular session and a 20-day overtime session. The budget adopted by lawmakers maintains current funding levels for the State Need Grant program, despite earlier proposals to cut as much as $9 million.…

    -called “tuition backfill”). $1.4 million to address the teacher shortage issue. Finally, two new studies related to higher education were funded in the budget. The first is a study by the Student Achievement Council. It’s designed to objectively analyze and make recommendations about systemic overlaps and gaps in jurisdiction regarding for-profit, degree-granting institutions and private vocational schools in the state, as well as make recommendations to improve oversight and accountability of these

  • Lute Plays Piano ‘Up Close with the Masters’ A Q&A With Natalie Burton ’13 By Sandy Deneau Dunham, PLU Marketing & Communications Music and Chinese Studies major Natalie Burton graduated magna cum laude from PLU in 2013, but she might have taken her most high-profile class just this year: an “Up Close With the… February 21, 2014 Alumni

  • 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…

    : All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS A family with a “Bjug” legacy of giving and service September 27, 2024 PLU hosts the 14th Annual Lutheran Studies Conference: Celebrating Cecelia Svinth Carpenter, Indigenous education and tribal sovereignty September 23, 2024 PLU Welcomes the Class of 2028: Trailblazers September 11, 2024 Ethos in Action September 11, 2024

  • A Plea for Unity Posted by: Thomas Krise / November 12, 2016 Image: Anderson Clock Tower with clouds in the sunshine at PLU. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) November 12, 2016 Dear Campus Community: This election has heightened feelings of alienation, anxiety, and vulnerability, and it has exposed divisions in our society, much deeper than any of us realized.  The pain and fear of historically marginalized groups is real, and we must acknowledge it and work to both mitigate its sources and its