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4 Alumni Stories from the PLU Master of Arts in Education Program Posted by: Catherine Chan / February 24, 2021 February 24, 2021 If you’re thinking about securing a career in the critical field of education, then we invite you to meet four of our alumni and discover why they chose PLU’s master’s degree in education.Like many other fields, the education field is facing challenges today — budget cuts, teacher shortages, the global pandemic of 2020 — but every single day, the educators working in
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movies and news stories from his home in Senegal and became fascinated with the global economy. He wondered how people create financial wealth. That initial curiosity, combined with his desire to study abroad after high school, eventually landed Samba in the MSF program at PLU. Read More Progress in the Face of Persecution Sabet-Kazilas, a member of Baha’i faith, faced marginalization in her home country of Iran dating back to kindergarten. Baha’i followers there experience pervasive persecution at
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Abstract: Current PLU students, representing a variety of disciplines, will share their stories and perspectives on how they came to be interested in researching genocide, as well as the challenges and opportunities they have encountered in engaging their specific areas of interest. B.- AUC 133 University of Washington Graduate Student Panel: “Unfinished Sentences: Addressing human rights in the wake of the armed conflict in El Salvador” Alex Montalvo , Communications and Program Development, UW
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By Genny Boots ’18 Almost a century of students have counted the Choir of the West as a part of their PLU story. For 90 years, Lutes have joined in the community, passion and song of Choir of the West. This fall during Homecoming weekend, generations of Choir of the West members came together to celebrate a program that has anchored PLU as a premiere music program in the Northwest. The performance brought together 350 voices. It’s this part that Geoffrey Boers (who directed the Skones era
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Obituaries Submit a Class Note Calendar Calendar Highlights Featured Stories Welcome Ed Grogan, chair of the Board of Regents, shares his story as a first-generation Lute who rebuilt the engine of his ’62 Chevrolet Impala — with his dad’s help — to cover tuition. Read about why Grogan advocates for the ever-growing contingent of first-in-the-family students at PLU. Read More What it Means to be First PLU administrators — all the way to the president’s office — embrace and celebrate the first-generation
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May 18, 2012 More than 850 students will graduate from PLU for the 2011-2012 academic year. Spring Commencement takes place Sunday, May 27 in the Tacoma Dome. (Photo by John Froschauer) In their own words Compiled and edited by Chris Albert This spring, new PLU graduates closed a chapter in their lives and prepared to turn the next page. In the following, some Lutes shared their stories of why they came to PLU, what their experiences have been and what will be the next chapter in their lives
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exposure to trauma and suffering. Seniors Elizabeth Herzfeldt-Kamprath and Hailey Rile, along with junior Katie Scaff, first learned of the condition “compassion fatigue” last fall and soon decided to make it the topic of their new film. “After reading a little bit about what compassion fatigue is,” Scaff said, “we realized that this was an important issue that more people need to be aware of.” The films title actually came to the team during one of more than 60 interviews conducted. During their
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Note Calendar Welcome Legacy Lutes Each fall, we welcome new students to our campus. The Office of Alumni & Student Connections extends a special welcome to our Legacy Lutes, those students whose parent(s) attended PLU. We recognize this extra special commitment to their alma mater and are thrilled to have their sons and daughters carry on their legacy. Please note that only the parents who attended PLU are listed below. Charles LeWarne Charles LeWarne ’89 and Karyn (Hanson) LeWarne ’89 Isaiah
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years. The village, largely comprised of French Huguenots, banded together to feed, hide and shelter the Jews that came singly and by groups into the village. On Friday, Wilkens shared his experience during the Rwandan genocide. Even though scholars study the Holocaust and unbelievable numbers surround the murdered, it is the stories of the people that make it real. “I promised them when I came back to America I would share their story,” Wilkens told the crowd. “Nothing compares to stories.” During
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