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January 23, 2014 A mock-up of one of the panels in the exhibit Us Local People: Sámi Vuoiŋŋa and Resilience. (Courtesy of the Scandinavian Cultural Center.) Scandinavian Cultural Center Exhibit Kicks Off Months-Long Human-Rights Inquiry at PLU By Sandy Deneau Dunham, Content Editor Pacific Lutheran University’s renowned Scandinavian Cultural Center (SCC) will hold a free public reception celebrating the opening of an important exhibit that explores the history of the Sámi, the native people of
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February 25, 2013 For the Walter C. Schnackenberg Memorial Lecture, Neil Foley, the Robert H. and Nancy Dedman Chair in American History at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, spoke about immigration issues and realities. We’re like the Borg – We Swallow up Everybody By James Olson ’14 For the Walter C. Schnackenberg Memorial Lecture, Neil Foley was in fine form speaking with wit and sober candor on “The Hispanic Challenge and the Latinization of America,” before a crowd Feb. 25 in the
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learning opportunities. Site visits will include internationally significant collections like Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum and the British Museum in London. Additional short trips will focus on the interpretation of landscape as history at Stonehenge, and on the representation of national culture at the National Museums in Cardiff, Wales. Professor of Art & Design and Chair of the department, Heather Mathews, leads the course. Students will have the opportunity to see art in person that has been
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March 14, 2011 Embracing the past to learn about the future To understand the future there is a need to understand the past. Angie Hambrick, director of the Pacific Lutheran University Diversity Center, said too many people have forgotten the past.“We’re so wrapped up in our present,” she said. “There’s a connection between the past and what’s happening in the present. You can’t forget about history.” Hambrick said it is the lack of historical knowledge that led to the development of this
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Athletics’s annual NCAA Division III Week celebration. Their goal is to continue registering 200-300 Lutes annually.For Coach Soete, the cause is personal. He received a bone marrow donation from his sister while he was a student athlete at PLU. He says his sister is the reason he is alive today, and the reason he is committed to this campus initiative. “Many people in need of a bone marrow match are not that fortunate and the registry list is their only hope.” The baseball team also is committed to the
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to her arrival at PLU. A history major with minors in religion and Holocaust and genocide studies, Atkinson’s passion for research, academia, and higher education developed at PLU through her collaborative research with professors, her tenure as president of Phi Alpha Theta (PLU’s history honors society), and her work as PLU’s Vet Corps Navigator. What led you down the path of becoming an Arabic linguist? Out of the jobs available to me as a woman in the military in 2014, becoming a linguist was
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1.6:1 ratio, we still provide a high level of personal support and engagement for our students. The decision to set tuition fees is one that the whole institution takes very seriously. The fundamental decision rests on the question, “What revenue do we require to fulfill our mission in the coming year?” In a simple world, we would just take that figure for the money required, divide by the number of places available for students, and come up with a flat fee (minus revenues from other sources
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honored by the presence of His Majesty on this historic occasion. PLU is proud of our 125-year history, and of the Norwegian pioneers who brought the Lutheran tradition of higher education to the Pacific Northwest. We also recognize the homelands of the Puyallup Tribe on which we stand today here at the Tacoma Dome, as well as the homelands of the Steilacoom and Nisqually Tribes where our campus has stood for all of the last 125 years. The founders of PLU envisioned a University of the First Rank
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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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students and administrators. Through this first impression, I felt supported by the resources PLU made available to meet my academic and career goals. Also, I knew I would benefit from the smaller class sizes which facilitate a safe place for discussion of topics relevant to the courses. My PLU experience: My experience at PLU has been a journey full of personal growth in many aspects of my life. PLU goes above and beyond with the support and opportunities they provide their students. The faculty truly
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