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Alumni Profile: What makes an American an American? Posted by: shortea / November 28, 2018 November 28, 2018 By Genny Boots '18PLU AlumThis is a question Thomas Kim ‘15 thinks about often. As a newly married third-year law student with employment lined up after graduation, an activist philanthropist and an upstanding community member, Kim checks all the “American” boxes.Except for one: actually being a legal citizen. Kim is one of the approximately 800,000 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
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floor of the Mortvedt Library are a great quiet space as a commuter student Free-time Favorites: Spending time with his old dog (a lab/chow mix) and taking it easy What PLU Has Been for MeI’ve wanted to be an orchestra teacher since the 8th grade, and one of my orchestra teachers is actually the reason I’m at PLU today. I’ve always liked music, but I wasn’t thinking of it as a career path until I met Miss Harris in the 8th grade. She encouraged me to do what I love – and for me, music is that thing
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Corps serves as a unique opportunity to create relationships and make change with community members who also want to see their community thrive. Outside of the technical knowledge Haley gained in business and nonprofit operations, her time at PLU helped facilitate a mentality of effective collaboration and care. By continually creating a space for open dialogue, inviting all stakeholders to be involved, balancing desires and resources, asking important, critical questions and expressing care for all
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, to walking across the stage in Olson Auditorium at her Spanaway Lake High School graduation. Kreis has thrived in the community for years, and now she serves as the business outreach director in PLU’s School of Business. “Working at PLU feels so natural and fitting, a sort of coming home feeling,” says Kreis. “There’s definitely a strong pull to serve the community that gave me so much support at an early formative age.” In January of 2022, Dr. Mark Mulder, dean of the PLU School of Business
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Horn & Fixed Media Premiere at Octave 9 in Seattle Professor of Music Dr. Gina Gillie recently premiered her first electroacoustic music composition at Seattle Symphony’s Octave 9. Titled “Pale Blue Dot for solo horn and fixed media,” the piece is inspired by the 1991 photograph taken by the Voyager 1 spacecraft as well as… October 5, 2022 Composition
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First Year Scholarships Each year, we award more than $63 million in PLU-funded scholarships and grants. Our scholarships recognize your academic achievement, talent, leadership, and service, as well as your potential to continue all of those things as a Lute. Take a look below to see the scholarships for which you could be eligible and should apply for! PLU Academic Scholarships - $8,000-$32,000Eligibility: All first-year applicants are considered for PLU Academic Scholarships. Amount: $8,000
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Employees are allowed a rest period of ten minutes on university time for each four hours of working time. Rest periods should be scheduled as near as possible to the midpoint of the work period with consideration for the work involved. No employee will be required to work more than three hours without a rest period. However, where the nature of the work allows employees to take intermittent rest periods equivalent to ten minutes for each four hours worked, scheduled rest periods are not
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School of Nursing. If a student encounters circumstances beyond his or her control, that student is responsible for addressing this as soon as possible with faculty instructors and with the academic advisor. The Recruitment, Admission and Progression Committee (RAP) and/or the Dean may require documentation and testimony of these circumstances.
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. She’s learned to record Zoom lessons, sharpened her Google Docs skills, and misses the real-life campus interactions. She’s also had to pass on accepting the prestigious Fulbright scholarship she was offered because coronavirus-related travel restrictions would delay her service as an English as a Second Language Assistant in Mexico, where she also planned a secondary study of the water quality. But Cheney-Irgens, who was raised in the Dallas-Fort Worth area and chose PLU for its beauty and
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graduate and prep cook who’s going along as his assistant. “I think she is tremendously talented and has shown a lot of drive,” Sipe said. “She is a great benefit to bring to the competition.” Ment’or is a nonprofit organization that aims to inspire excellence in young culinary professionals and preserve the traditions and quality of cuisine in America. Its inaugural Young Chef Competition is described as “rigorous,” and you could describe its judges as “inspirational,” “intimidating” or both: chefs
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