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an adjunct professor at Spelman College.PLU Dean of Social Sciences Michelle Ceynar, a co-organizer of the event, says that Mason’s talk will cover issues that PLU has been working to address. “Dr. Mason’s book, as well as her extensive experience in this area, will inform PLU and the wider community about what experts have learned to be the best practices for supporting and encouraging disadvantaged students throughout their academic careers so that they experience higher education as a place

dive into difficult conversations about race relations in the United States.“The consciousness of this country is shifting,” says Cunningham, who works in the PLU Campus Ministry office and partners with the university’s Center for Graduate and Continuing Education to produce People’s Gathering events. “Where we are right now in our nation’s history and our national rhetoric, we need to learn how to talk about race. Most of us learn about race on our own, and that can be really difficult.” Each

in the nation. Since 1961, PLU has produced 242 volunteers in the Peace Corps. “Every year, graduates of colleges and universities across the United States are making a difference in communities overseas through Peace Corps service,” said Peace Corps Acting Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet. “As a result of the top-notch education they receive, these graduates are well prepared for the challenge of international service. They become leaders in their host communities and carry the spirit of service

. Returning to the states with the beginning of Youtz’ exotic instruments collection, the two went their separate ways, and Youtz began his enrollment at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash. It was there, he says, that “a kid taught me how to hop freight trains,” which kept him busy for a solid eight years. During the summers Youtz funded his education–which lasted a sprawling, indecisive six years–by working at the Seward Salmon Cannery in Seward, Alaska, where he eventually became the manager. Here

, which, as I mentioned above, constitute about 10 percent of total revenues). But, we live in a complex world, where we need to be able to support smart students who don’t have the means to afford a college education, and we need to compete in an educational marketplace that includes public universities that receive direct subsidies from the state and private universities with far larger endowments. So, our tuition fee often rises at a rate very similar to those at other colleges and universities

Friends University, a liberal arts Quaker University. For my doctorate, I attended Washington State University and received my degree in 2020. I specialized in World History, West Africa, and Middle East History. My dissertation examined the transmission of firearm technology into West Africa and argued that West Africans (Africans in general) were aware of firearm technology at least 125 years earlier than Europeans.  It also pointed out that the reason West Africans adapted the technology but did

their efforts to ensure that the pandemic will not reduce the already low participation and inclusion of diverse students and workers in STEM education and careers,” said Diana Elder, Division Director of NSF’s Division of Human Resource Development. PLU was honored for its initiative in developing programs supporting undergraduate enrollment and retention, the PLUS Year Program and the PLU Fixed Tuition Guarantee Program, and placed second in the four-year STEM undergraduate category, just behind

Sunshine Private School’s All Girl Marimba Band and the PLU Percussion Ensemble. Once back at PLU, she created a multimedia exhibit featuring music and video from the marimba band and local batik art masks. Later that year, in October, the Percussion Ensemble played some of the Sunshine marimba band’s songs at its fall concert. When PLU’s Wang Center for Global Education told her about the Fulbright program in 2021, Larios saw the grant as a way to finish what she started — both with her research and

at Microsoft that tackles this work on a global scale.” Spelhaug will explore the role that technology companies are taking in global efforts to fight inequality, eliminate poverty, protect our planet and transform local communities. Tech for Social Impact has the power to expand the capacity of organizations and communities to meet social challenges.  Spelhaug brings 22 years of professional experience spanning a range of commercial and social businesses. Prior to assuming his role leading the

Being a Scholar-Teacher and a Teacher-Scholar Posted by: alex.reed / May 4, 2022 May 4, 2022 By Erin McKennaOriginally Published in 2014If you read the acknowledgements of the books that I’ve written, you will notice that I always thank some group of students for their help and insights. With The Task of Utopia, I thanked a particular class of students who were taking social and political philosophy with me as I made the final revisions on that book. While I did not teach the book itself, we