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of Pacific Lutheran University. Dr. Young’s scholarship pursues questions of rhetorical style, expertise and engagement in the public sphere. She lies awake at night fretting about the state of our public discourse and uses her scholarship to enable colleagues and students to claim or reclaim their roles as public agents and citizens. She is a member of the National Communication Association and the Rhetoric Society of America. Dr. Young’s work explores questions of style and public engagement

unsavory names on campus. One spat on me. There was an editor on the school paper who was producing a lot of anti-gay rhetoric. She was very anti-gay and wrote a lot about it. Christine Hiller-Claridge ‘07: I transferred from a school where there was so much backlash to any attempt at gaining equality for the LGBTQA group. I knew there were people on the PLU campus who did not agree with same-sex relationships or gender expression, but it was never thrown in my face. I believe that did not happen

, Argumentation & Advocacy, and Relevant Rhetoric. Who: Mary Ellard-Ivey, Professor of Biology Bio: Mary Ellard-Ivey is a Professor of Biology at Pacific Lutheran University. She received her undergraduate degree in molecular biology and biochemistry from University College Dublin, Ireland. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of British Columbia, Canada, in plant molecular biology. While her laboratory research experience is on plant responses to abiotic stress and pathogens, she has broad interests in the

the Year, at the White House and meeting President Barack Obama? One of the constant challenges of teaching is being passionate in a career that is immersed in negative rhetoric. Often teachers feel under appreciated, overworked and unsupported by their administration, districts or communities. When I attended the White House events and met President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Dr. Jill Biden, and Secretary of Education John King, I experienced my profession being celebrated. Leaving this

rhetoric that is poisoning public discourse in recent months, PLU is launching an institution-wide educational campaign to promote active listening in academic spaces and beyond. The university’s primary goal for this academic year, to be carried throughout the years that follow, is to move PLU’s campus from a place of welcoming to a true place of belonging for students of all backgrounds. PLU strives to be a place where people of color, people of all sexual and gender identities, people of all faiths

Study Away Identities Resources The Wang Center for Global and Community Engaged Education seeks to

All Courses AICE 276 : Part-Time Internship A supervised educational experience in a work setting on