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, and now serves as a coordinator of Lutheran Community Services Northwest’s refugee resettlement program. “Looking back at my four years at PLU, it all makes sense,” Wright says. “I’m really grateful for my PLU experience because I feel like it truly did prepare me for the work I do now that is rooted in social justice and community.” Wright will be returning to PLU this week for the 9th Biennial Wang Center Symposium. He and four other alumni will discuss “Conflict, Peacebuilding, and the Ethics

that this place will become a new community; one that challenges you, yes, but also supports you and helps you grow in ways that you can only imagine now.  You’ll become part of a community that includes nearly 50,000 alumni scattered over 64 countries around the world.  You’ll also form community with your professors and advisers.  You’ll have the opportunity to work in close collaboration with faculty members…some of you may even have the opportunity to do published research and creative projects

of Norway, Oct. 26, 1995; •    The visit of Crown Prince Haakon of Norway, March 20, 1999; •    Members of the Stortinget (Norway’s legislature), Sept. 6, 1978; •    In memory of the Founding Fathers; and •    Norwegian Immigration 1825-1975. This time, Nesselquist said, the king will travel without other members of the royal family but with Norwegian Ambassador to the U.S. Kare R. Aas and a 15-member delegation that includes representation from the royal palace, the embassy, the consulate in

this is super important. Learning another language sheds light on your own language, your first language, your mother tongue, and it opens crazy worlds, crazy opportunities. I mean, in terms of, like, travel, in terms of what music you can be exposed to, what movies, TV series, what cultural production you can come into contact with and learn from. It just opens the floodgates of knowledge and culture. I never said this to my students because I didn’t have the chance to, but I had a couple students

weeks in a remote Alaskan town, teaching in a summer school. The time will be culturally rich as I learn and experience the culture of Native Alaskans. After these three weeks, I will travel back to Colorado to prepare for my next adventure: 16 months in Malaysia. I will be in Malaysia from August 2012 till November 2013 traveling, teaching English, and engaging in community development. I am extremely excited for this opportunity I am being afforded and I expect it will continue to shape my future

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ostrich dance. I have touched elephants and run along the savanna grasslands with springboks. I have witnessed the clash between tradition and religion and the appeal to disassociate with the past. I have been to Botswana. You see Mom, PLU is not only just about academics and career paths but is also concerned with creating global citizens. As we graduate, the class of 2008, I ask, “What should we take from this place? As alumni, what should we give back?” We now have the responsibility to pass on the

Safety officers are here to protect our students and the university community. Officers will not contact, detain, question or arrest an individual solely on the basis of suspected immigration status. Campus Safety officers will not detain an individual in response to an immigration hold request from ICE, or any other law enforcement agency charged with enforcing immigration laws, unless doing so is required by law. PLU is engaging our network of alumni and friends who have expertise in immigration

serves as a coordinator of Lutheran Community Services Northwest’s refugee resettlement program. “Looking back at my four years at PLU, it all makes sense,” Wright says. “I’m really grateful for my PLU experience because I feel like it truly did prepare me for the work I do now that is rooted in social justice and community.” Wright will be returning to PLU this week for the 9th Biennial Wang Center Symposium. He and four other alumni will discuss “Conflict, Peacebuilding, and the Ethics of Discourse