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PLU climbs eight spots in 2022 U.S. News & World Report college rankings Posted by: Silong Chhun / September 21, 2021 September 21, 2021 By Zach Powers ‘10Marketing and CommunicationsPacific Lutheran University climbed eight spots, from 22nd to 14th, on U.S. News & World Report’s annual college ranking of the best regional universities in the West. PLU was one of only three Pacific Northwest universities ranked in the top 15 of the highly competitive category that includes universities from as
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your recital repertoire. A minimum average score of 35/50 must be achieved to pass. See jury rubrics for more information. BRASS TRUMPET BM A 60-minute (minimum) recital consisting of at least 4 contrasting pieces on at least 3 different instruments. Instrumental assessments and recitals in the BM may not repeat repertoire from previous assessments and recitals. Performance quality must be at or very close to a professional standard in tone, phrasing, endurance, range, articulation, technique
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April 1, 2012 Melissa Castor ’14 helps a sixth grade student at Keithley Middle School with her math work. (Photos by John Froschauer) Lives of Service: It’s what neighbors do By Chris Albert In Mrs. Allen’s sixth grade math class at Keithley Middle School, Ms. Castor is rotating from desk to desk helping each student with the challenges of figuring out the area of composite figures. “Sometimes you have to just break it down to a triangle and a rectangle,” Ms. Castor shows one student, while
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Teaching HILARY VO (2018) 10th Grade English Teacher and Mentor Summit Public Schools: Tamalpais High School, Richmond, CA Majors: English (Writing Concentration) and Classics Graduate Degree: Masters of Education, University of the Pacific (2019) How did your English major establish a foundation for your career path? If you ask any of the hundreds of students I have taught over the last five years what my “jam” is, they would all say: poetry. Or they would say some variation of reading
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Who can participate?There are two ways to participate in the Lute FASSN program. Colleagues offering support* are PLU faculty and staff volunteers who have gone through difficult life experiences and are willing to meet with PLU faculty and staff going through similar experiences. Colleagues offering support don’t need to be experts in counseling or to have completely overcome their battles; they simply need to be willing to share their experiences and offer support to others who may be newer
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336: Deviance SOCI 413: Criminological Theory SOCI 495: Internship SOCI 499: Capstone STAT 233: Introductory Statistics 4 semester hours of a SOCI Inequality Elective course. Choose from SOCI 210 (Gender and Society), 240 (Social Problems), 332 (Race and Ethnicity), or 410 (Social Stratification). 4 semester hours of a Criminal Justice Elective course. Choose from SOCI 226 (Delinquency and Juvenile Justice), 287 (ST in Criminal Justice), 387 (ST in Criminal Justice), SOCI 494 (Gender and Violence
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Posted on November 27, 2017October 31, 2018 Commemoration, Culture, and Coco: Exploring Día de Muertos in Mexico Día de los Muertos is a holiday in Oaxaca, México that brings together the community in a week of celebrations, festivals, and gatherings. It’s a community effort with preparations beginning weeks beforehand and lots of behind the scenes work. The week is filled with events that unite Oaxaca, including plays, live concerts, and daily parades. … Continue reading Commemoration, Culture
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Yakima area students find a home away from home Posted by: vcraker / January 6, 2021 January 6, 2021 About two and a half hours east of Tacoma sits the farming community of Yakima, Washington. The Central Washington county has about 243,000 residents and is probably most notable for producing the majority of the nation’s apples and hops. But it’s also where Henry Temple ‘21 and Isabel Gutierrez ‘23 call home. The two didn’t know each other growing up, but coincidentally, they’ve both found
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First MSK Graduate Class: Delaney Salter Posted by: chaconac / November 16, 2021 November 16, 2021 Delaney Salter, a graduate of both PLU’s bachelor’s and master’s degree in kinesiology, shared about what she has learned about improving the lives of others through applied kinesiology. Reflection from Delaney Salter, '21My name is Delaney Salter. I graduated with my bachelor’s at PLU in 2019. My major was kinesiology with a concentration in exercise science. I remember completing an interest
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October 24, 2012 Robert N. Bellah, the Elliott Professor of Sociology Emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley, was the lecturer for the annual David and Marilyn Knutson Lecture, Oct. 24. (Photo by John Struzenberg ’15) Adapting to the advancements of modernity By Katie Scaff ’13 How do we as a species adapt to a rate of change that no biological species before has ever faced? This was the question Robert N. Bellah, one of the foremost sociologists of religion in the world, posed to
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