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Pacific Lutheran University has a strong commitment to diversity, social justice and sustainability rooted in our Lutheran heritage and featured in PLU strategic planning documents. Our Lutheran tradition calls on us to see diversity, social justice and sustainability not as three separate concerns but as one crucial cause demanding our best attention and action. These principles provide the backbone for student-run clubs and organizations. Clubs will intersect with these issues in different

, she took the position. Colleen and her fellow coaches for women’s soccer (1995-1996). While Colleen certainly wasn’t out of her depth athletically or as a coach, she was entering into an environment with a “very homogenous, heterosexual, white male, male-dominant status quo… It wasn’t just the norm, you know, it wasn’t 60/40, it was 98/2.” “If I listened to one more person stand at the podium and thank their wife who made this all possible…” She rolled her eyes. “That was the role of women