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years and a dedication to preparing you for real-life industry challenges. Master of Arts in Education (MAE)If you want to make an impact in the lives of the future generation, whether you have a background in education or not, consider the Master of Arts in Education at PLU. We have a one-year graduate program designed to prepare you to make an impact in the classroom as soon as possible.Your career options with one of our degrees include: School Administration Curriculum Development Teacher

. Please take some real time to consider what you may be getting yourself into. Also, be very careful about committing large amounts of money to schooling. I know quite a few people who took out large loans for undergrad and/or grad school, and they’re crippled by them as artists. They have to work a job to pay them off, and they’re not making art anymore. Then they settle into the comforts of a steady paycheck and they stop outright- maybe for good. So, know that it’s a high risk, high reward

, right? And my whole family’s in the back of the car with me. And there was a panel of professionals on the other side of the phone. It was so stressful and also comical at the same time. So Kamehameha Scholars is a college and career program that works with high school students across the state of Hawai’i. As a counselor there, I see myself as being this bridge for students between where they are right now and where they want to be. A dot connector, if you will. My job is just to help them find the

education. ACTFL’s mission is to provide vision, leadership and support for quality teaching and learning of languages.As President of ACTFL, Dr. Yaden runs board meetings, writes for the organization, and advocates for language learning in Washington DC. She had also planned to travel to about 30 different national and international conferences. Many of these were either cancelled or moved online due to the pandemic. This meant that, instead of traveling around both the country and world, Dr. Yaden

biology, so it’s never boring.” Wilson’s desire to become a pediatrician stems from a love of helping others. Wilson enjoys taking care of people, especially children. “The core of a profession in medicine is improving the quality of people’s lives.”Wilson, who has lived in Parkland since middle school, is already practicing community care in her role as a tutor through the Parkland Literacy Center. She tutors local middle and high school youth in all subjects, and hopes to help bridge the gap between

high school youth in all subjects, and hopes to help bridge the gap between the PLU community and the Parkland community at large. “A lot of people see PLU as a bubble and not part of the larger Parkland community,” Wilson says. “So it is really cool to see local kids coming to campus and getting help and tutoring through the Parkland Literacy Center. We try to help everyone as best we can.” As a transfer and first-generation student who came to PLU amidst the Covid-19 pandemic, Wilson had to be

the Pierce County Sheriff’s Department. A high school graduate of Franklin Pierce and husband to a PLU graduate, Premo said he is very familiar with the university’s history and was drawn to the position as a result. “The history and culture of PLU is part of what attracted me here,” Premo said. “Dealing with a college atmosphere seemed exciting to me.” Premo said his career has been strictly law enforcement, so he is excited to face new challenges that come with the territory of serving as

relationships with people, reading the Bible, just living life,” Serino laughed when asked about his inspiration for the piece. “I guess you could say I was researching the holy spirit.”  Serino, a music and composition major, first started composing when he was in high school in Gresham, Ore. Serino describes his as a rather dramatic piece, with lulls and crescendos. Celeste Godin will be singing a series of  songs from Joseph Conteloube’s Chantes d’Auvergne. She will be singing the songs in Occitan, the

raised in the Inland Northwest of Washington State. After crossing the Cascades, she began working toward a double major in studio art and English literature at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, WA, with the intent of becoming a secondary educator in the field of art or English. While not attending to her own education, she spent her summers away from college teaching preschool and elementary school aged children ne arts at the Corbin Art Center in Spokane, WA. Like the children she taught, art

to Washington, and we’ve been here ever since. I attended Lakes High School and swam varsity. Once I became a junior, I did Running Start, so that knocked off two years of college, and I was able to transfer all of my credits over to PLU. I chose to attend PLU because I heard it has an outstanding nursing school and just excellent faculty for teaching science classes. When I was applying to colleges, I knew I wanted to be a biology major, so I looked for local schools with strong STEM programs