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, students are influenced by residential experiences, interactions with peers, and events and activities on campus. Do students of color feel like they belong at PLU? Data on retention and graduation show that students of color are less likely to return to PLU for a second year and less likely to graduate within four or six years. This is especially true for African-American, Asian-American and Native American students. One of the challenges in investigating these trends is the small number of students
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Northwest Sinfonietta. The choir has performed for such prestigious events as the American Choral Directors National Convention (San Antonio 2001), the Cambridge Summer Music Festival (Cambridge, England 2005), and the World Harp Congress (Geneva, Switzerland 2002). Choral Music CurriculumThe School of Music, Theatre & Dance at PLU offers four music degrees: the Bachelor of Music in Performance, the Bachelor of Music Education, the Bachelor of Musical Arts, and the Bachelor of Arts in Music. Our
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Chorus and the Northwest Sinfonietta. The choir has performed for such prestigious events as the American Choral Directors National Convention (San Antonio 2001), the Cambridge Summer Music Festival (Cambridge, England 2005), and the World Harp Congress (Geneva, Switzerland 2002). Choral Music CurriculumThe School of Music, Theatre & Dance at PLU offers four music degrees: the Bachelor of Music in Performance, the Bachelor of Music Education, the Bachelor of Musical Arts, and the Bachelor of Arts in
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Third Rail Inquiry: Learning, In, Through, and For Community, Part II The Conversation in Action The Conversation has expanded my understanding of third rail inquiry. First, this group values the story as a way of knowing. Each week we begin with a ten-minute personal anecdote. Often our stories disclose the psychological burden of living the color line, but they can capture any dimension of our experience, any encounter or event that shapes how we see the world. Narratives highlight
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Justin Eckstein Associate Professor of Communication Full Profile 253-535-8175 justin.eckstein@plu.edu
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alternative and more biblical framework for understanding speaking Christian, said Jesus scholar Marcus Borg.“Religions are like languages,” Borg said. “To be part of a religion includes using, hearing and understanding that language’s religion.” The problem is, “for many people in our time Christian language is an increasingly unfamiliar language.” Borg, who serves as Canon Theologian at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Portland and Hundere Chair of Religion and Culture Emeritus in the Philosophy
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reflect on what kind of information they’re consuming, they can then move on to more complicated questions, like what information may be missing that might be important. In my Introduction to Media Studies class, I ask students to work in teams to audit an American news outlet. They have to carefully read articles to determine what the agenda setting function of news actually is. What is news covering that sets the agenda for what matters? Then we can ask deeper questions about power and what’s not
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-Semitism. Here is a podcast of that conversation. Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education Music Of Remembrance Listen to the full discussion PLU professors Samuel Torvend and Beth Griech-Polelle discuss Martin Luther’s anti-Semitism, Lutheran higher education and PLU’s upcoming Powell-Heller Conference for Holocaust Education. Torvend, Ph.D., serves as a professor of religion and is the university chair in Lutheran studies at PLU. Griech-Polelle, Ph.D., is associate professor of history and
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those vital bonding moments with her students digitally. Snickerdoodle the cat Teaching During a Global PandemicSustainability in Monastic Communities Read Previous “All Tradition is Change”: Redefining Community in the SCC Read Next The Two Desks LATEST POSTS Gaps and Gifts May 26, 2022 Academic Animals: Making Nonhuman Creatures Matter in Universities May 26, 2022 Gendered Tongues: Issues of Gender in the Foreign Language Classroom May 26, 2022 Introduction May 26, 2022
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TACOMA, Wash. (Sept. 17, 2015)— Chinese President Xi Jinping is coming to Tacoma on Sept. 23—and Pacific Lutheran University Professor of Music Greg Youtz is playing a significant role in the international event. As chair of the Tacoma-Fuzhou Sister City Committee, Youtz was instrumental in…
in a bit of limelight with the arrival of the Chinese president next week.” Youtz, a composer who has studied classical Chinese music and culture for years and speaks frequently on Chinese arts and culture, already has been interviewed by a Seattle-based China blogger, by the Beijing correspondent for the Wall Street Journal and by TV Tacoma; he’ll also appear on KING-5 News at 4 on Sept. 17. Youtz, who served for 20 years as director of PLU’s China Gateway Study Abroad Program at Sichuan
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