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PLU Interim Leadership Announced Posted by: Lace M. Smith / May 8, 2017 May 8, 2017 Dear Campus Community: I am happy to share with you the news that the Board of Regents of PLU voted on Saturday to elect Mr. Allan Belton—who currently serves as senior vice president and chief administrative officer—to the post of acting president, effective June 1. Allan will continue to lead the division of Administrative Services and he will be tasked with the duties and authorities set forth in the faculty

Tinker. “I’ve never seen that much excitement on the team.” Tinker also was recognized as the third best speaker in the senior division. It’s been another successful year for PLU Forensics. Tinker and Stanton were semi-finalists at a competition at Lewis and Clark College, where Megan Bowen and Tori Sullivan also received speaker awards. Sullivan was a junior varsity semi-finalist. “I am so pleased with the success and continued prowess of the debaters,” said Director of Forensics Justin Eckstein. “I

, associate professor of business, spoke of how they bring sustainability issues into their classrooms through books, or projects such as finding out why more students don’t take the bus. Jill Whitman, professor of geosciences, has her students do an autopsy of PLU garbage cans to find out how much of the trash could really be recycled. “These problems are overwhelmingly big,” Whitman noted. But by showing students how small changes can make a difference, it can make the problems more manageable, she said

already underway. Her bequest will also fund a variety of other projects including those to benefit faculty scholarly activities and to provide financial support for students. Phillips’ lifetime giving and bequest total almost $25 million, making her the largest single benefactor in university history. She was a PLC nursing graduate and served as a member of the Board of Regents for nine years beginning in 2000. Engage the World: The Campaign for PLU will continue through May 2012 raising support of