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January in China, however, conflicted with an equally important part of her life. Klauder is a member of the PLU swimming team. And she’s no ordinary swimmer – she qualified for the championship finals in five individual events during her first three years at PLU. Swimmer Jessie Klauder seeks the balance between the personal expectations of being a student and the personal and team expectations of being an athlete. While Klauder dove into her studies at the University of Chengdu, learning how to
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their citizenship or immigration status, religion or other status. PLU protects free expression of ideas as vital learning in an educational setting. Freedom of speech sometimes protects controversial ideas and sometimes protects even offensive and hurtful language; however, it does not protect personal threats, discriminatory conduct or other acts of misconduct that violate the Student Code of Conduct, university policies, or federal, state and local laws. I want to reiterate, in the strongest
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in Tacoma, where students of color make up more than 60 percent of the population, more than 80 percent of the district’s teachers are white. Egenes has her students at Lincoln explore historical issues in education through an equity lens. Some of the topics they’ve researched include the history of Native American schools, the link between historic neighborhood redlining and school segregation, bilingual education and more. She asks her students to assess their own learning styles and ask
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folks to vote. It was awesome. From there, I spent a year in AmeriCorps through a Tacoma-based program called Urban Leaders in Training. I also worked with Graduate Tacoma on a lot of cool projects, including translating a lot of their materials into Spanish. Then, after a couple of years in Oakland, California working in environmental organizing with Clean Water Action, I came home to Tacoma and got connected with Lutheran Community Services. It’s been a lot of learning and hopping around, but in
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work. I also hope to keep developing my Spanish and to pursue learning and volunteer experiences that will utilize my language skills.PLU ChemistryPLU’s Department of Chemistry has an outstanding curriculum, excellent faculty, great facilities, and is accredited by the American Chemical Society. Read Previous PLU MediaLab Film Project Nominated for Student Emmy Award Read Next Andrew Miller ’14 leverages his PLU MBA to help Tulip Town adapt during COVID-19 COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated
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intellectually sophisticated work, for how much effort she put into everything she accomplished, because of her true love for learning, and for the ways in which her commitment to critical thinking and social justice has shaped her research and her activism to this day.” Prior to the COVID-19 stay-at-home order, Smith had approached Benge with an offer to use partial grant funding to organize a series of arts-based workshops. Benge and Urdangarain were in talks to translate a theater piece about experiences
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gain valuable, hands-on experience. PLU nursing professor Lorena Guerrero noted the importance of the event in providing that platform for students. “Students have been wanting to become more involved in the pandemic,” she said while also volunteering her time at the clinic. “A lot of their clinicals have been affected, in one way or another, by the logistics and the surge in patients that a lot of hospitals have had. Things like this where a student can spend seven hours giving shots and learning
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spirituality connect with the societal or even environmental challenges they’re learning about in their classrooms. We try to keep this thinking in mind when we’re planning chapel services, and it’s also inspired things like our Reflect, Learn, Celebrate Queer Faith discussion series and a recent Bible study about decolonizing scripture. This is your seventh year as university pastor. How has the way you think about your unique role on campus changed become more nuanced, or perhaps even changed a bit, over
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. “In the engineering school I went to, they focused on developing algorithms and computer models,” she recalls. “They didn’t care as much about the real-world application of those models, or understanding people better. It’s definitely not how all engineers think about their work, but where I studied, that kind of thing was left to others to think about.” Learning that these others were marketers, Ha shifted her focus. After earning her PhD at the University of Washington and working for three
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doesn’t mean you have to be (Lutheran, that is) All this might sound funny, given our middle name. PLU reaches out to students of all faiths and all backgrounds – the 23 percent that are Lutheran, and the 77 that aren’t. This is exactly what Lutheran education is all about – a commitment to academic freedom and a learning atmosphere where all perspectives on faith and reason are expressed openly. #3 Nobody does a better job preparing students for medical school The only school in the state that sends
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