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If you polled people, chances are few would raise their hands and volunteer to go back to middle or high school. For many, those were awkward times in just about every way imaginable. For folks that struggled with reading, writing, communication or other subjects, even…
like the PLC wherever I end up.”Biology major Susan Schowalter ’19, another student assistant director, helped a student and a family member with a college application process last year, which she said was a rewarding highlight. “I was drawn to the PLC because it was an opportunity to provide exceptional resources like writing help and class tutoring to students in the Parkland community,” she said. “Being a university that brings in large numbers of people from around the country, PLU asks a lot
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On the Path to Peace Communication Professor Amanda Feller’s peace-building cohort, all graduating in 2014, comes together at PLU. From left: Caitlin Zimmerman, Lauren Corboy, Sydney Barry, Kendall Daugherty, Rachel Samardich, Rachel Espasandin, Jessica Sandler and Anna McCracken. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Eight Graduating Women Give…
earned her a spot on the panel at PLU’s 2014 Wang Center Symposium on genocide and peace-building, Legacies of the Shoah. Her peace philosophy: “Genocide is not a sweet, feel-good topic,” Corboy said. “A lot of people might think not anything good can come from discussing it, but the one saving grace is: How do you get past it?” She has one idea: community-building. “When you accept the people around you as kind of an extended family, and define them as community and respect the fact that we all
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Center Stage: The $20 million Karen Hille Phillips Center for the Performing Arts officially opens in October By Steve Hansen Jeff Clapp ’89, PLU artistic director of theater, PLU theater program undergraduate, son of a theater professor, likes to tell a story of his tenure…
other technical infrastructure is state of the art. It is worth noting that the performing arts center will not host just theater. Dance, opera and jazz performances will also use Eastvold Auditorium. Lectures, touring ensembles and other PLU-sponsored events will also take place there. It will be a very busy place. Phase II also includes many changes not related to theater. PLU’s cherished Tower Chapel is restored, renamed the Ness Family Chapel, thanks to a $2 million gift from Kaare and Sigrunn
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TACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 11, 2017)- Kevin O’Brien, dean of the Division of Humanities, acknowledges that programs in his department could be hit hard when Pacific Lutheran University approves final cutbacks in the coming months. Still, he’s as committed as ever to the institution’s mission. On…
said. “We have to make the changes, but we have control over how we respond to them.” Ceynar praised faculty members for being gracious during tense times, not allowing the process to tear the community apart. “We’re a big family,” she said. “Ultimately, I think everybody wants what’s best for PLU and its students.” Ceynar said a key component of the process is offering emotional support for both the faculty members who will stay and those who may depart. Acting Provost Joanna Gregson formed a
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To: All students and families From: Office of the President Date: Wednesday, April 29 at 3:30 p.m. Dear students and families, My oldest son, a first-year university student, recently quipped, “Remote learning was okay for a few weeks, but I just want to get back…
theatre productions are streamed via PLU YouTube in high-definition video and high-quality audio. All 2020–21 art exhibits will also be available via a virtual tour, so student works can be shared with family and friends who are not able to see them on campus. Emergency funding. In addition to CARES Act funding, PLU has raised over $150,000 in COVID-19 emergency funds, and additional donations are being sought. Help is available to both prospective and enrolled students experiencing pandemic-related
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Learning perspectives About a dozen students silently sit in a semicircle around a Makah woman, as she shows them how to make a cedar bracelet. Students mimic her as she holds several foot-long strands of cedar bark strung out from her mouth to her hands.…
,” “I’d been here a long time ago,” or “I heard this is the most underrated J-term trip.” Senior Eden Marsicek couldn’t agree more with the last statement. “It is,” she says plainly. Once the students arrive they are nervous about what is to come. But the Makah calm them quickly with the epitome of “with open arms.” The Makah have an open and strong sense of community. Family gatherings are like Thanksgiving, Adams said, but there is no awkwardness between generations. “Everyone’s always looking out
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By Taylor Lunka ’15 PLU Marketing & Communications Student Worker TACOMA, Wash. (Dec. 17, 2014)—On Sept. 19, President Barack Obama joined Vice President Joe Biden in launching the It’s On Us campaign—to keep men and women safe by putting an end to sexual assault on…
[the Women’s Center and ROTC] share a lot of the same goals.” Keller said ROTC has a program similar to It’s On Us called SHARP, located in the resource area of the Memorial Gym. “We are all part of the human race,” said Keller. “We have to take care of each other. We have to stem this ugly tide. This is something that affects so many—it has personally affected my own family.” Keller, who has been on the PLU faculty since 2013, said he is making prevention about sexual assault a top priority. “I
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TACOMA, WASH. (April 6, 2016)- Travel from the shores of Puget Sound to the fjords of Norway with the exhibition Edvard Munch and the Sea , on view exclusively at Tacoma Art Museum April 9 through July 17, 2016. This is your opportunity to dive…
Stratton Gould Fund. © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.× Edvard Munch (1863-1944), On The Waves of Love, 1896. Lithograph, 123/16 × 16⅜ inches. Epstein Family Collection. Photo by Mark Gulezian. © 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.× Read Previous PLU employee Logan Seelye to share his story of triumph, struggle and faith at TEDxTacoma Read Next PLU community members raise funds and awareness at Relay For Life COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear
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veteran: vet-er-an (n) \ ˈve-tə-rən a veteran – whether active duty, retired, discharged, or reserve – is someone who, at some point in their life wrote a blank check made payable to the United States of America for an amount “up to and including their…
Press. Pryce, Pryce, D. H., & Shackelford, K. K. (2012). The costs of courage : combat stress, warriors, and family survival. Lyceum Books. Coll, & Weiss, E. L. (2015). Supporting veterans in higher education : a primer for administrators, faculty, and advisors. Lyceum Books, Inc. Gordon. (2018). Wounds of war : how the VA delivers health, healing, and hope to the nation’s veterans. ILR Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press. Driscoll, & Straus, C. (2009). Hidden battles on unseen fronts
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Originally Published 1999 “The Artist, the thinker, the hero, the saint —who are they, finally, but the finite self radicalized and intensified? . . . The difference between [them] and the rest of us . . . is a willingness to undergo the journey of…
the kind of knowing that cannot be unknown. For our students this is a process of reconstituting themselves as human beings, a process of disintegration and reintegration, for some welcome, for others not. For all, however, it is a process that usually involves their experiencing a sense of tension and even betrayal of family, peer group, social class, ethnic community, religious denomination, or political ideology. Whether and how students negotiate this process depends on many things: among them
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