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  • TACOMA, WASH. (May 7, 2018) — William Peterson took a non-traditional path to the principal’s office. After earning a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and a teaching credential, he jetted off to Ecuador where he taught English and expanded his linguistic abilities and cultural knowledge. Returning…

    principal can nurture a beginning teacher, or support an experienced master teacher. “Teacher mentoring is a huge part of their role,” Grady-Hahn said. Cohorts for the principal program form in June each year. A summer of intensive class work is followed by weekly classes, along with an internship, during the school year. “The summer classes prepare you for what you’re going to face when school starts,” Lantz said. “Weekly classes during the year follow up and continue to take you deeper.” To be

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Dec. 19, 2018) — “Innovation” is a term that gets thrown around a lot. It’s had different connotations at different times over the years, both positive and some negative. Through the addition of a new minor, Innovation Studies, PLU students will now get…

    Cornell-Maier: a business class, a graphic design course, writing for the Innovation blog Halvorson started that’s dedicated to highlighting student questions, offering helpful advice and identifying pathways into the minor. “You get a lot of questions when you say you’re an Innovative Studies minor, because few students know what it is,” Cornell-Maier said. “They’re curious and innovation is a buzzword right now.” As a member of the minor’s inaugural cohort, Cornell-Maier spends some time every week

  • TACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 3, 2019) — A new $2.8 million federal grant will help increase the number of PLU Doctor of Nursing Practice students who can serve rural and underserved populations in Washington. The grant, from the federal Health Resources & Services Administration (HRSA), will…

    New federal grant boosts PLU doctoral nursing students serving in underserved WA areas Posted by: Thomas Kyle-Milward / September 3, 2019 Image: Graduate Program Coordinator and Assistant Professor of Nursing Kathy Richardson instructs a PLU nursing class on suturing. September 3, 2019 By StaffMarketing and CommunicationTACOMA, WASH. (Sept. 3, 2019) — A new $2.8 million federal grant will help increase the number of PLU Doctor of Nursing Practice students who can serve rural and underserved

  • TACOMA, WASH. (April 21, 2020) — Worried about graduating into an uncertain job market? Need to hear some encouragement or advice from a PLU alum who’s been in your shoes before? Alumni & Student Connections has gone virtual to make sure resources to help you…

    were on a Zoom conference call and we promoted it to students, had students register and then join us for the conversation. All of our services are now virtual. Students and alumni can schedule appointments with career and internship advisors via phone, email, or virtual using Google Hangouts and Zoom. PLU: How is Alumni & Student Connections supporting seniors about to graduate into a COVID-19-impacted job market? Andrew: This graduating year has presented unique challenges for the Class of 2020

  • For Whidbey Island business owner Roshel Donwen ’17, her close-knit island community is everything. She finds fulfillment in running her store, 3 Sisters Market, providing local food and goods to the people she considers family. “The best part about running and owning 3 Sisters Market…

    accounting, so I always had the intention of coming back and doing the finances,” she said. “When I went to PLU, I got my degree in business and that’s what I really use today.” Aside from managing the store’s finances and staff, Donwen takes a hands-on approach to the look and feel of the store.  “I took a marketing class, and a lot of our marketing was focused on colors, your target audience, and how you display your items. Well, I do that every day. I love it,” she said. “I stand there in the store

  • Zach Willis ’19 earned a BA in kinesiology with a concentration in health and fitness promotion and minored in sport and exercise psychology while playing on the football team at Pacific Lutheran University Last year he returned to the university to serve as the football…

    have a choice. Rather than telling them to do X-Y-Z, I want to give them opportunities to learn and grow, and I think that’s beneficial, not just on the football field but off the field as well. For many college student-athletes, they may not have much autonomy in their daily life, for example, they may be told for when to work out, when they go to class, etc., so I think giving the team opportunities to name a drill, name a play, choose a drill, can be motivating and fulfilling for each of

  • Parker Simpson ’24 is spending his summer working at an assisted living facility in his hometown of Spokane, Washington. He comes from a family of healthcare professionals and has always wanted to help people. We sat down with him to discuss his experience taking classes…

    , so I have had a lot of people in my life who acted as nursing role models for me who were able to show me what great work nurses do. You spent your first-year taking classes remotely because of COVID-19. What was it like to finally be back in the classroom as a teaching assistant for Professor of Biology Michelle Crites? It was important for me to be a TA because it was like I was taking the class again, but I got the in-person experience. For Anatomy & Physiology, it was a completely different

  • Sometimes you’re drawn to a career path, and other times you discover it by serendipity, as Lauren Loftis, Archivist & Special Collections Librarian at Pacific Lutheran University, did. “I carelessly stumbled into it. In fact, the first time I entered an archive was when I…

    , small, ongoing class sagas and editorials and letters to the editor that provide insight into what mattered to the community. That’s the type of thing that personally always gets me excited, but I’m always up for telling anyone who asks about some of the oddities in our collection, which, fun fact, includes an oxygen mask.In today’s world with the internet, why are libraries still relevant and needed? There are a couple of different angles I could approach this from — libraries as space, the

  • PLU Wang Center for Global Education’s 2020 “Interrupted” Photo Contest Winners During the 2019-2020 academic year, 350 PLU undergraduate students participated in global and local study away programs to acquire new perspectives on critical global issues, advance their language and intercultural skills, form valuable new…

    length of the oysters and sorting them into piles based on if the oysters are ready for sale or need to be returned to their offshore oyster farm. The oysters mature to a length of two inches and are then sold to hotels and restaurants on Costa Rica’s mainland. What is especially pertinent about the scene in the photo is how these women have built themselves into the island’s economy. With my CIEE class, I learned the recent history of Isla Chira. Up until twenty years ago, the island was a machismo

  • On Friday, September 29th, Athena Gordon had a conversation about vocation, teaching, and the importance of languages with two professors in the Department of Languages & Literatures. José Ramón Ortigas is an Assistant Professor of Hispanic Studies who earned his PhD from the University of…

    with students. Say cheese! A selfie with Dr. Moneyang's FREN 101 class. AG: Both of you have been teaching at PLU for at least a year now. What are you most proud of so far?JRO: For me, it’s acclimating to a different culture. Going from a big research university with thousands of students, to a small liberal arts school. I’m proud of the relationships that I’ve been able to foster with students. For me, it’s sharing a classroom with students who are motivated and engaged with the material, and