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Online Learning at Pacific Lutheran University. Online and blended programs for undergraduate, graduate, and continuing education students extend the university’s mission beyond campus borders,
Online Learning at Pacific Lutheran UniversityPacific Lutheran University has a strong history of providing students with an exceptional learning experience. Yet across the world, higher education is enveloped in transformation, with technology innovation increasingly influencing the process of teaching and learning. As PLU moves into the future, it is possible to embrace the new while remaining grounded in the University’s history and values.Online and blended programs for undergraduate
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It’s been 25 years since David Akuien ’10 was separated from his mother at age 5, 16 years since he came to the United States as an orphan.
two million people died as a result of war, famine and disease caused by the Second Sudanese Civil War — including five of David’s siblings and his father. At one time, four million people were displaced. David, now 29, remains one of them. That will change Dec. 30, at least temporarily, when he travels to South Sudan for a four-week reunion with his mother, sister and other loved ones. The trip follows what David describes as a lifetime of isolation. “Most of what has happened to me is not good
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Students in the Native American and Indigenous Studies program don’t just learn about Indigenous peoples, they learn with and from them, entering a collaborative learning space in which Indigenous
See what our Alumni have been up to! More Indigenous Scholars, We are Lutes Too A poster exhibition designed and installed by Native American & Indigenous Studies students Fall 2019 More Hands-on learning Students in ANTH 190/192/491 learn to make drums while in Neah Bay as guests of the Makah nation. More Quality guest speakers and events Dr. Charlotte Coté (Tseshaht/Nuu-chah-nulth), author of Spirits of Our Whaling Ancestors: Revitalizing Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth Traditions, speaks at the
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The Parents and Families website is an information resource for parents, guardians, and families. In many cases, parents and family members have different questions than students do.
. Student life is active and diverse. The pursuit of a meaningful profession and career is taken seriously. It is all that, and more. PLU faculty and staff encourage students to find their passion in life, and they help students put that passion to good use – for themselves, their communities, and the world. We call this process the pursuit of one’s vocation. It’s very much connected to PLU’s Lutheran heritage and broad educational philosophy.Quick Links Applying for Aid Cost Calculator Student Life
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We’re glad you are getting involved in research at PLU, and we’re here to help you through the HPRB application process.
info 🤔 First Time Submitting? Use our Step-by-Step GuideStep 1: Check if you need HPRB review Step 2: Consult with a Faculty Supervisor Step 3: Complete required online training (CITI) Step 4: Understand the basics of the HPRB process Step 5: Understand methodological issues that impact your application Step 6: Plan for review time Step 7: Submit your application Step 8: Respond to HPRB questions/concerns (stipulations) Step 9: Understand your on-going responsibilities once approvedLook
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Yannet Urgessa ’16 has lived on three continents and speaks five languages. But it took coming to PLU for her to feel comfortable in her own skin for the first time.
hair to prove it. It’s big. It’s curly. And, she says, it’s unapologetically black. “A lot of growth I’ve done is reflected in my hair,” she said. Urgessa didn’t always wear her confidence so proudly on her head. After emigrating from Ethiopia, she grew up in Bergen, Norway, among a sea of silky, blond hair. She said wearing her hair in an Afro “freaked my friends out.” So, from the time she was 13 years old, Urgessa straightened her hair daily. The decision catered to her white friends, she says
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The International Honors Program is a way to satisfy your Gen Ed requirements at PLU — but in classes that are designed to cut across different academic departments, programs, and labels.
International Honors (IHON) Program PLU’s International Honors Program (IHON) is a unique honors program that focuses not on teaching you about things, but instead on cultivating your ability to learn, think for yourself, and express yourself. In IHON, you’ll study and consider perspectives from various pasts about crucial questions of human life: What is a human? How should human animals relate to nature, including other animals? For what should we live? Do we ‘know’ what we see? Does the
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Peace Corps Prep (PC Prep) is an undergraduate certificate program that helps students prepare for service in the Peace Corps, a US-government organization that sends US citizens abroad to volunteer
PLU is Top Peace Corps Producing College! For the third year in a row, PLU is one of the top 25 producers of Peace Corps Volunteers in schools of our size (under 5,000). Congratulations Lutes! Andrew Larson '15 Learn about Andrew's time serving in the Peace Corps in Comoros Peace Corps Prep Lutes are Peace Corps Bound! From the first cohort of PLU's Peace Corps Prep certificate program are Haley Bridgewater ’18, Margaret Chell ’18 and Madeline Wentz ’18, headed to Guinea to serve in the Peace
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The Humanities department annual newsletter.
Disruption and ContinuityGreetings from the Dean
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February 1, 2014 Lute Plays Piano ‘Up Close with the Masters’ Natalie Burton ’13 plays a Bach piece on the piano for master pianist Vladimir Feltsman during Portland Piano International’s Up Close With the Masters series. (Photo courtesy of Portland Piano International) A Q&A With Natalie Burton ’13 By Sandy Deneau Dunham PLU Marketing & Communications Music and Chinese Studies major Natalie Burton graduated magna cum laude from PLU in 2013, but she might have taken her most high-profile class
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