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dedicated to ensuring that our students find a place in the world that is both meaningful and makes excellent use of their talents and education. In this issue of ResoLute, we meet Lutes who have experienced success on their own terms. We highlight some of the ways our community designs extraordinary learning opportunities and we explore how Lutes find meaning after graduation, measured not only by traditional forms of success, but in lives well lived. You’ll see how Tarra Simmons ’00 was determined to
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March 19, 2012 Karissa Bryant ’03 with school girl at Sacred Heart Boarding School in Shillong, India. Here Bryant is asking the girls who live at the school what they wanted to be when they grew up. In the evening they would share Khasi songs with Bryant and she would teach them English songs. (Photo courtesy of Karissa Bryant) Alumna works to teach, train students in India By Katie Scaff ’13 Since graduating from PLU in 2003, music and vocal performance major Karissa Bryant has travelled the
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Center on the PLU campus. Each $10 ticket supports the hungry in Pierce County and includes an artist-made bowl and soup from PLU’s culinary staff. “The proceeds go to those who have less than we do,” said Steve Sobeck, a resident ceramics professor at PLU. “In years past, we’ve had lines of people waiting to get these bowls.” In 2014, the ceramics program created around 150 bowls for the event, and this year, they are planning on having about 200 bowls. Representatives said they hope the increase
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March 31, 2010 From the opposite sex, to light refraction to puppies – all is explored at regional science fair By Loren Liden ’11 Hundreds of students, of all ages, and from schools all across the region, participated in this year’s South Sound Regional Science Fair on March 27. “I think that it’s [the science fair] important because students need to be recognized for good science – for what they do as far as problem solving, for asking questions, for being curious about the world, ” said
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CCC On Creating General Education Core Learning OutcomesAt the broad program level, learning outcomes: Introduce to students what will be learned by way of a particular requirement. Unify faculty understanding of what should be delivered for a particular requirement. Clarify program vision and expectation for the purpose of assessment. At the degree program and/or course level, learning outcomes articulate what students will learn and how they will learn it. That is, they introduce the specific
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Phi Alpha Honor Society in Social WorkStudents may be invited into the Phi Alpha Honor Society in Social Work. To be eligible, students must be in the top 35% of their cohort. Phi Alpha Honor Society Delta Rho Chapter The purpose of Phi Alpha Honor Society is to provide a closer bond among students of social work and promote humanitarian goals and ideals. Phi Alpha fosters high standards of education for social workers and invites into membership those who have attained excellence in
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March 9, 2012 Visiting Writer’s Series – Eric Goodman Five time novelist, Eric Goodman will have a reading at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 14 in the Regency Room of the UC. There will be a Q & A with the writer at 3:30 p.m. that day at the GBC. Goodman is the author of five novels, including In Days of Awe and Child of My Right Hand, which won a 2004 Book of the Year Award from Foreword Magazine. He has been awarded three Ohio Arts Council fellowships and residencies at the Headland Center for the
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J-Term Travel for Organists In January 2004, as part of an ever growing study abroad program at PLU, organ students had the opportunity to visit historic organs in the Netherlands and Germany under the leadership of the University Organist, Paul Tegels, under the course “Organs in the Netherlands and Germany”. Most organs that were visited were built by the 17th century north German builder Arp Schnitger. Organs and churches visited in 2004 include the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam, Laurentzkerk in
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BMMA 502 : Marketing Strategy and Consumer Behavior Key topics in marketing strategy to identify target markets, develop/refine brands, and showcase points of parity and difference. Focuses on the thoughts and emotions of consumers, their behaviors, and their motivations to help implement strategies which are built upon innovative edge consumer behavior models. Practice Focus: In collaboration with real-world marketing challenges, students apply marketing strategies to help a business
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Jewish Diaspora in UruguaySince 2019, a team of PLU researchers–Dr. Rona Kaufman, Dr. Giovanna Urdangarain, and students Riley Dolan (2019), Kiyomi Kishaba (2021), Ellie Dieringer (2023), and Parker Brocker-Knapp (2023)–have been collecting, recording, translating, and sharing the testimonies of Uruguayan Jews who have experienced the Holocaust, migration, and the diaspora. Our research began at the Hogar Israelita in Montevideo, Uruguay, which was founded in 1937 as an orphanage for Jewish
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