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student leaders led the eager freshmen in a handful of ice-breakers to help them get to know a few people they didn’t know before and maybe even take a step toward a new-found friendship. “I hope to meet new people, make new friends and hopefully discover more about myself,” she said. These relationships are important in building a campus culture, said Campus Pastor Dennis Sepper. “As a university that comes from the Lutheran tradition, we believe that everybody has a place, purpose and a role to play
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, commerce, culture and the arts, and for his commitment to establishing the Puget Sound region as a focal point for the rest of the world.”Without a doubt, the dedication Bill Stafford has shown in creating greater global understanding can be matched by very few,” Anderson said. “He is a true leader in bringing our world closer together.” Stafford has been instrumental in assisting PLU faculty design and promote global education programs, offered exceptionally valuable advice in the planning of the Wang
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returned to the Yakima, Wash., area when she was 14 – in the middle of the winter. Not only was the weather a shock to the high school freshman, but the culture was a shock as well. She was more acclimated to a laid-back atmosphere and a tropical climate. “I was really lost when I came here. But then I found my friends, my home in the choir,” she said. As for opera, Surkatty was hooked when a traveling opera production came to her high school “and just blew me away. Before that, I thought it was all
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school, specializing in immigration policy or law; • Ferraz, who graduated in May with a degree in English Literature and a minor in Music, is teaching for 10 months in Taiwan, where she also will study local and American songs; • Flanagan is teaching English in Germany and likely will enroll in a master’s program once his Fulbright tour is over; • Burton is studying piano education and culture in China, a continuation of her senior research project at PLU; and • Charles is studying in
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emphasizes sustainability and social justice and provides various opportunities to learn about community, culture, their importance and our impact on them.” “PLU provides students with a quality education and a curriculum that seeks to educate students in thoughtful and diverse discussions while teaching them to be thoughtful of our environment and community, and this distinctive education sets itself apart from other colleges.” Students find their professors to be kind, understanding and very
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& Engagement, Melannie Denise Cunningham: “If you’re on a journey of cultural literacy, then this is an opportunity to step into a situation to deepen your understanding about a culture you may not know at this point.”The project, created by Dr. Yetta Young, sheds light on the real and raw experiences of modern-day Black women while acknowledging that these experiences are not exclusive to them. Both educational and entertaining, this show serves as a source of empowerment and inspiration that everyone can
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Professor of Philosophy and Law Anthony Kwame Appiah, who will share his reflections on how widely held identity categories are used and abused. Ara Norenzayan, Professor of Psychology at the University of British Columbia and a co-director of UBC’s Centre for Human Evolution, Cognition and Culture, will address the evolutionary origins of religion and the psychology of religious diversity in today’s globalized world. Dean Spade, Associate Professor at Seattle University School of Law, will challenge
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have a hard time with. I really empathized with her story as a child of immigrants myself—the constant feeling of betrayal that comes with leaving behind your parents and your culture as you move into the realm of American teenage awkwardness and adulthood.” Our class devoted a month to studying and drawing literary inspiration from Daisy Hernández’s award-winning memoir, A Cup of Water Under My Bed (Beacon Press, 2014). Hernández spoke with our evening class until it was late at night in Ohio
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handwriting, but computer programs, XML tags, mouse usage, pop culture references, and social media. In light of these shifts and reframings, early modern texts began to signify as not only old recipes, but also as placeholders for bygone cultures in an Internet age. by Nancy Simpson Younger
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and American Politics (forthcoming with Oxford University Press, 2016). He has published essays in several edited collections and journals, including International Labor and Working-Class History, Religion and American Culture, and the Journal of American History, and received research support from a number of organizations, most recently the American Council of Learned Societies, National Endowment for the Humanities, American Philosophical Society, Rockefeller Foundation, and Canadian government
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