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: African Student Association aims to promote African culture by organizing events that will spread diversity and unite students of all backgrounds. Type of Club or Organization: Diversity, Justice, and Sustainability (DJS)/Civic Engagement Meeting Times & Places (Subject to Change): When: Every other Wednesday from 5pm-6pm Where: DJS Lounge Club Email: asa@plu.eduAlpha Psi Omega (APO)Description: Alpha Psi Omega (ΑΨΩ) is a national theatre honor society, dedicated to recognizing student achievement in

spring semesters, that includes many study-away opportunities. The chance to participate in more than 25 international and domestic study/travel programs lets you immerse yourself in a country, culture or discipline that you never imagined – and get credit for it, too. PLU’s goal is that through a J-term study-away experience, students are able to: Learn about cultures and cultural diversity in the United States and abroad Develop intercultural skills Recognize global issues and processes and their

commitments with a high level of personal responsibility and professional accountability. Multiple Frameworks Recognize and understand how cultures profoundly shape different assumptions and behaviors. Identify issues and problems facing people in every culture (including one’s own), seeking constructive strategies for them. Cultivate respect for diverse cultures, practices, and traditions. Adopted by Faculty Assembly on November 11, 1999

Confucius Classrooms Confucius China Studies Program Chinese Language and Culture Classes Questions 10th Anniversary Celebration Keynote Speaker Speakers CIWA Contacts Comments, Questions, and Suggestions Contact Information Confucius Institute of the State of Washington Phone: 253-535-7785 Email: ciwa@plu.edu Harstad Hall Offices 114 & 115 Tacoma, WA 98447-0003 Additional Programs Global Education at PLU Contact Information Confucius Institute of the State of Washington Phone: 253-535-7785 Email: ciwa

Confucius Classrooms Confucius China Studies Program Chinese Language and Culture Classes Questions 10th Anniversary Celebration Keynote Speaker Speakers CIWA Contacts Comments, Questions, and Suggestions Contact Information Confucius Institute of the State of Washington Phone: 253-535-7785 Email: ciwa@plu.edu Harstad Hall Offices 114 & 115 Tacoma, WA 98447-0003 Additional Programs Global Education at PLU Contact Information Confucius Institute of the State of Washington Phone: 253-535-7785 Email: ciwa

collective practices of resistance and flourishing. The field of Critical Race Studies began with 1960s movements for social change, when student activists of color organized to demand new curricula in higher education that centered Black, Chicanx and Asian culture and history.   CRS understands the historical formation of racial groups as not naturally determined, nor politically or morally neutral. Societies assign meaning to different racial categories; these meanings shift over time and across space

from at least two separate cultures with distinct historical and cultural norms. Intellectual Formation and Ethical Reflection: The curriculum asks students to examine critically the basic assumptions cultures from all over the world and all different times have about the nature of life and the world we live in.  This includes critically examining the origins of the concept of “The West” and “Western” culture.  The IHON curriculum encourages students to develop an informed, personal worldview

to advance student learning and development and a campus culture of respect and responsibility. FERPA In accordance with the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, popularly known as the “Buckley Amendment” and carrying the acronym “FERPA,” PLU has adopted the following policies and procedures. back to top Employment Show more information about these links Human Resources Human Resources strives to promote an exceptional work environment for the PLU community, in order to provide a

scholars and with students – “they should be of use to one another.” This insistence on the real though limited nature of human knowledge thus cultivates an intellectual humility and charity which is at the heart of a humanist university. In a culture which prizes individual achievement, a Lutheran university rightly asks how we might put our scholarly achievements at one another’s disposal and for the common good.

quo, of what most people thought was normative, he and his colleagues claimed that there could only be one of way of interpreting the Christian faith they supported. While they promoted primary education for all boys and girls, not just privileged children – an astonishing and radical innovation in the sixteenth century – they also supported the closure of convents where many women, for over a thousand years, had found a measure of learning and agency unavailable in a patriarchal culture. While