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strong work ethic — two factors that cause high future earnings. That is generally true regardless of where such students attend college, as long as they go to a reputable four-year institution, various studies have shown. When asked by New York Times business columnist James B. Stewart to list a national top 10 ranking that removed the emphasis on high-paying STEM professions and identified the highest “value added colleges” regardless of major, Brookings fellow Jonathan Rothwell’s response included
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Communication Specialist Aaron Sherman and student debater Mariah Collier will speak for the proposition, “a vote for a third party is a wasted vote.” Ben Meiches, University of Washington-Tacoma professor of security studies and conflict resolution, and student debater Tate Adams, will argue for the opposition. “I think that the viability of a third-party vote is one of the most important problems that we face, as Americans, in the context of this upcoming election,” Adams said. Collier agreed, voicing she
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Semester. During this meeting we will show the highly acclaimed Netflix Documentary by Ava DuVernay 13th, which centers on race in the United States criminal justice system. After the movie we will have a discussion on the themes of the movieFEB 16 “A Seat at the Table” Listening PartyThe Center for Gender Equity – 5:30pm Join the Center for Gender Equity as they listen to Solange Knowles’s album “A Seat at the Table” and have a follow-up discussion about the album’s themes around Blackness, Black
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Genocide, Then and Now: A Hotel Rwanda Survivor Tells His Story.” Samardich did much of the legwork involved in creating the network, Feller said. “She really wanted to pull together community partners, students and faculty in peace-building, but we didn’t have an umbrella organization. She said let’s call it a network—not just because of what it is, but because that’s the mission.” —Sandy Deneau Dunham SYDNEY BARRY Hometown: Helena, Mont. Major: Communication/Women’s & Gender Studies. Graduation: May
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Murdock College Science Research Program in November in Vancouver, Wash. The Mount Rainier research was funded through a PLU Division of Natural Sciences and the Wiancko Charitable Foundation grant through the environmental studies program at PLU. Read Previous New Center for Media Studies takes the classroom into the community Read Next PLU Highly Ranked in U.S. News & World Report’s ‘Best Colleges 2015’ Guidebook COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you
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, and to see meaning-making as a social activity, something negotiated. This is true whether we are working in the classroom or the community center, in print or online.My field, English and Writing Studies, shows us how to read deeply and to understand the world. More specifically, it helps us see, value, and interpret the enormous scope and scale of life and experience. When we see ourselves reflected in a children’s book or when we are seen through our virtual identities, we are situated within a
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series, titled “A World of Difference,” explores issues of diversity, including gender, race, immigration and social class. The first two segments, about immigration and gender, will screen at 4 p.m. on Feb. 17 at the Seattle Central Public Library, 1000 Fourth Ave. in Seattle. The other two portions of the series will premiere in Tacoma later this spring. “A World of Difference” was jointly sponsored and supported by PLU’s School of Arts and Communication, the Wang Center for Global Education and
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understand what’s going on and adjust my life accordingly.” However, Hofrenning’s post-graduate plans span further than mere governance. Hofrenning aims to combine his degree with his religion and Hispanic studies minors to contribute to progressive peacebuilding in Colombia. “(I want to look) at what opportunities come out of the political landscape down there right now,” Hofrenning said, “and to use what I learned from Hispanic studies to insert myself and start working in Hispanic politics
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the year. Professor Samuel Torvend, Speaking at the Lutheran Studies Conference in 2014 “It’s very clear in the Rule that every community should be self-sustaining,” said Dr. Torvend. “There were no grocery stores or wholesale food suppliers in the early medieval world. You ate and drank what you grew.” The stability of rural monastic life was an appealing alternative to the urban decay and ongoing military conflict of medieval Italy. “They had no one to rely on but themselves.” St. Benedict of
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Nicole Hargreaves ‘09 documents her move overseas on HGTV’s House Hunters International Posted by: bennetrr / October 20, 2020 October 20, 2020 By Rosemary BennettMarketing & CommunicationsNicole (Hughes) Hargreaves graduated from PLU in 2009 with a degree in communication and a minor in women’s and gender studies. Originally from Kirkland, Wash., she went on to begin her career here in the Pacific Northwest. However, after her husband Paul was struck with a sudden illness they decided to
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