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skills and earning potential. It’s an opportunity to pick the brains of talented professionals from a variety of industries. And it allows for advancement in diverse ways, often on your terms. As graduate-admission professionals who communicate daily with prospective students locally and globally, we find these motivations are common. People want to expand their knowledge and skills in a specialized area for career advancement and potentially higher pay. They also are looking to expand their

to PLU! As a newly admitted student, there are some important things you need to take care of. In addition to the steps listed in the Steps for New Students tab, please also carefully read the list below regarding the additional steps and important information f0r international students. Step 1: Take care of your Visa – do this now and don’t wait! You can research the visa wait times at your local embassy on the U.S. Department of State website. 1. Pay the I-901 fee. This is also called the

its goals to be about improving learning, not raising final marks (Trumbull and Lash, 2013). Summative assessment evaluates student learning, knowledge, proficiency, or success at the conclusion of a unit, course, or program. Summative assessments are almost always formally graded and often heavily weighted (though they do not need to be). Summative assessment can be used to great effect in conjunction and alignment with formative assessment. Examples of Formative and Summative Assessments

College-level Credit at PLUPLU grants college-level credit to students who have taken and scored a certain level on AP, IB and Cambridge exams. Additionally, PLU will grant college-level credits to students who have completed Washington State Running Start or other college courses while in high school.Weighted GPAPLU grants special status to IB, AP, Cambridge, Honors and Accelerated courses. PLU will weight grades in these courses when calculating an admission GPA in order to benefit those

Attaway Lutes Editor’s Note On Campus Discovery Research Accolades Lute Library Blogs Alumni News Alumni Profiles Homecoming 2015 Twin Cities ‘Waste Not’ Seattle Connections Easter Egg Hunt Night at the Rainiers Alumni Events Class Notes Family and Friends Submit a Class Note Calendar Super Bowl Stage Setter Alumni Profiles / January 20, 2015 Lute’s Company Sets the Stage for Seahawks Super Bowl Rally in Arizona By Sandy Deneau Dunham ResoLUTE Editor TACOMA, Wash. (Jan. 28, 2015)—If you can’t make it

Computer and Network Use Policies Pacific Lutheran University provides computing and networking resources to students, faculty and staff. Use of these resources is a privilege granted to members of our community as we work and learn in an environment supportive of education and service. These policies, which apply to all users of PLU’s computing and information resources, consist of the following elements: General Use Network Use Policy Anti-Virus Software Policy Administrative Systems Use

psychology. Often, anthropological research is multidisciplinary, with specialized divisions including paleoethnobotany, taphonomy and forensics. In the United states the study of anthropology is sub-divided into four major areas of specialization: cultural, archaeological, linguistic and biological anthropology. Cultural Anthropology (Ethnology) studies living human cultures in order to create a cross-cultural understanding of human behavior – distinguished by field-research conducted via participant

The Big Idea: Interested in joining PLU’s Anthropology and Geoscience Departments in a fun day long field trip to explore the intersection of geology and anthropology? Two sites will be explored through this lens: Alder Lake was formed as an impoundment dam in the 1940’s to generate the electricity we use as a society. What are the results? We will view the dam itself and local landscape on the way to the second stop of the day. Ohanapecosh Campground southeast corner of Mt Rainier National