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2015-2016 Study Away Report (pdf) view download
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The Wang Center is dedicated to supporting faculty, students and staff with the resources necessary to advance PLU’s distinction and vision for global education of “educating to achieve a just,
, intercultural communication, as well as their knowledge about the interconnectedness of the world through the exploration of links between classroom learning and community settings at home and abroad.2022 Study Away Video Contest Winner!Congratulations to this year’s Wang Center Video Contest winner, Casandra Hebert! Make sure to check out her winning video, “The 5 F’s of Studying Away at PLU” below.Video DescriptionThe 5 F’s of Studying Away are Friends, Food, Faculty, Fun, and Furry Friends. I have found
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Oaxaca as part of a PLU gateway program. Since returning from their travels abroad, both Greb and Jung have become sojourner advocates at the Wang Center, where they encourage students to seek out opportunities to study away globally and locally. “Some of the J-terms, like Neah Bay, give you the opportunity to go somewhere you wouldn’t think about going,” Jung said. “They can become more globally aware and globally focused even in their own community. Even if you aren’t able to go abroad you can
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Study away programs don’t just take students to countries around the world. Some Lutes stay right in PLU’s backyard.
hopes for TIES students learning about the City of Destiny. “If you take the time to immerse yourself in that same way you do abroad, you can have the same experience,” Haxtema said. Zylstra agreed, stressing that an immersive experience teaches students a lot no matter how far they travel. “If you can learn how to examine and engage any community, it’s a transferrable set of skills,” he said. “It’s learning how to study communities.”
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PLU Peace Corps program prepares Lutes for service work abroad.
PLU’s vision for global education,” Zylstra said, “it’s not about getting people to study abroad but it’s about how do you raise consciousness about where we fit into a global society and I think this is one more helpful mechanism to do that.” Interested in Peace Corps Prep? Contact Katherine Wiley at wileyka@plu.edu or visit the Peace Corps Prep website for more information.
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March 2, 2009 Making study away possible A new $2 million scholarship fund will increase study abroad opportunities for low-income students at Pacific Lutheran University. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation gave the university a $1 million challenge grant to initiate the endowment fund a year ago. Since then, a matching $1 million has been raised from donors, including the estate of Arthur H. Hansen, Loren and MaryAnn Anderson, Charles Bergman and Susan Mann, and Iver and Ginny Haugen
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Throw a dart at a world map, and it’s likely to hit a location where Pacific Lutheran University students or faculty members have conducted research.
annually to PLU students and faculty members, as well as an annual average of $110,000 in Global Scholar Awards (study away scholarships) to students. Support Study Away Programs “The Wang Center research grants are generally designed for students in the advanced global education continuum,” Williams said. “Students who’ve taken globally focused courses, who have studied abroad, and are well equipped to go abroad and thrive and succeed on their own.” Saiyare Refaei ’14 was awarded a Wang Center grant
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TACOMA, WASH. (March 10, 2016)- Bradford Andrews has spent a decade inviting his students to participate in archaeological research in the Mount Rainier area. This year, the work helped uncover details about prehistoric hunting groups. “This is the sort of opportunity that can only come…
PLU professor, local archaeologist team up with students to study prehistoric artifacts from Mount Rainier Posted by: Kari Plog / March 10, 2016 Image: Professor Bradford Andrews with Emma Holm ’17 (left) and Georgia Abrams ’17 (far right) look over artifacts collected at Mount Rainier in PLU’s anthropology lab on Wednesday, March 9, 2016. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) March 10, 2016 By Samantha Lund '16PLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (March 10, 2016)- Bradford Andrews has spent a
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In the following text, Dr. Carmiña Palerm, Associate Professor of Hispanic Studies and Director of the International Honors Program, considers how a Humanistic approach can inform the design and implementation of a study-away course. In this particular case study, Dr. Palerm describes a class titled “American Genesis: Indigenous Texts and their Resonance” that she offered as part of the Wang Center’s Gateway Semester Program in Oaxaca, Mexico in Fall of 2012.I had two goals in designing this
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Frontiers: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Study Abroad (link) view page
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