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  • Melinda Gates news for Pacific Lutheran University.

    Celebrate Computer Science Education Week By Michael Halvorson, ’85 This week is Computer Science

  • Steve Wozniak news for Pacific Lutheran University.

    How Innovative was the Apple II? By Damian Alessandro ’19. In most popular histories of computing,

  • Sven Beckert news for Pacific Lutheran University.

    Sven Beckert of Harvard University to Give Benson Lecture On October 9, 2019, the PLU community welc

  • This spring, the Strategic Enrollment Management Advisory Committee (known as SEMAC) will finalize PLU’s philosophy of enrollment, with the intention to ask our Board of Regents to adopt a final draft statement with enrollment targets in May. (See the current draft here  on the Provost…

    the faculty governance and committee system will be working with the Provost’s Office on how that affects individual departments/programs. We also need to acknowledge and better understand how pedagogy, external standards, our commitment to General Education, and other factors affect the individual and collaborative capacity of programs. *Note: All comments are moderated In light of a reduced enrollment, how do we identify low-performing programs and eliminate them? What does that mean for

  • JOIN OVER 500,000 PEOPLE TODAY AND START LEARNING WITH EDX FOR FREE!  edX is a largely free online learning resource where anyone can audit online courses from top universities for free.

    about Hypothesis, contact iTech@plu.edu.FebruaryCAPTURE YOUR IDEAS WITH JAMBOARD Jamboard is a collaborative digital whiteboard that can capture handwritten notes, brainstorm ideas in a group, or create simple slideshows. Multiple users can create content simultaneously on Jam projects. A Jam project is broken up into multiple boards, called frames. Each frame can contain imported images, digital sticky notes, or content drawn with a mouse or touch-enabled device. Jamboard is included in Google

  • Learning Communities are for all PLU students. At PLU, every residential student (including first-year, new transfer, returning, and upper division) is part of an LC, by year at PLU and/or by theme.

    called “The CAVE” the physical space is vibrant and the diverse community members create a warm and welcoming space for all. After 5pm and on the weekends, The CAVE hosts concerts, performances, and club meetings. Community for Creative Expression CommunityThe Community for Creative Expression is for students interested in a co-curricular focus on creativity and innovation across all disciplines.  Connected Residence Hall: Hinderlie Hall. This hall has mixed-gendered wings with gendered bathrooms and

  • While instructors are not clinicians, student wellbeing impacts learning, and it supports our goal as educators to design with it in mind.

    Student Wellbeing Toolkit Adapted from the University of Oregon’s Office of the Provost: Teaching Support and Innovation Wellbeing—as a topic, as a need, and as a call to action—has increasingly been part of the conversation in higher education. The far-reaching impacts of COVID19 have only made the role of wellbeing in learning more obvious. Instructors have increasingly become primary contacts for students experiencing crisis, burnout, or challenges that interfere with their academic success

  • Membership: Vice president and Chief Operating Officer (chair); one person from Provost’s Academic Council (selected by the Provost’s Academic Council); the vice chair of the faculty; director

    to scholarly excellence, to higher education, to religious service, to professional fields, to the creative arts, or to public service. Criteria for honorary degrees are, for the most part, qualitative rather than quantitative. Nominees must not merely have accomplished a job competently but must have excelled through unusual success in or contribution to their field, through innovation or research which has caused their profession to advance, through extraordinary achievement which has enabled

  • 8:15 a.m. | March 8 | Karen Hille Phillips Center for Performing Arts   Who: Bob Ferguson Title: Washington State Attorney General Bio: Bob Ferguson is Washington State’s 18th Attorney

    issues affecting the global economy, business management, strategic and innovation issues facing the corporate environmental landscape.  He is passionate about Business, health, education and social issues affecting our communities and has previously volunteered at The Northwest Leadership Foundation through their Mentor253, CHI Franciscan Health and The Ronald McDonald House at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Mr. Akuien is a graduate of Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) in Tacoma, WA with a BA in

  • Empire of Cotton news for Pacific Lutheran University.

    Sven Beckert of Harvard University to Give Benson Lecture On October 9, 2019, the PLU community welc