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  • New American Colleges and Universities Summer Institute to be held at PLU – Call for proposals The 2018 New American Colleges and Universities (NAC&U) Summer Institute will be held at Pacific Lutheran University June 19-21. The Summer Institute theme is Engaging Civility: Leading Dialogue In and Beyond the University. PLU is excited to welcome colleagues from across NAC&U institutions to campus… February 8, 2018 faculty developmentfaculty newsletterLectures and Events

  • Obituaries Submit a Class Note Calendar Calendar Highlights Featured Stories Welcome Ed Grogan, chair of the Board of Regents, shares his story as a first-generation Lute who rebuilt the engine of his ’62 Chevrolet Impala — with his dad’s help — to cover tuition. Read about why Grogan advocates for the ever-growing contingent of first-in-the-family students at PLU. Read More What it Means to be First PLU administrators — all the way to the president’s office — embrace and celebrate the first-generation

  • Calendar Featured Stories Welcome No question is unasked. No field of discovery unexplored. More than five centuries ago, Martin Luther disrupted the status quo by calling for open, accessible education for youth of all genders and socioeconomic strata. Bishop Rick Jaech outlines how PLU is living the Lutheran tradition. Read More Bring Your Whole Self Lutheran higher education asks students to ponder the big questions as they learn to appreciate and embrace differences. Take a deeper look at how

  • By:Genny Boots '18 September 12, 2018 0 MBA to CFO https://www.plu.edu/resolute/fall-2018/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2018/09/anna-loomis-mba-cover-1024x532.jpg 1024 532 Genny Boots '18 Genny Boots '18 https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/19bfb9cee2f834144d56bb2017bb5742?s=96&d=mm&r=g September 12, 2018 October 3, 2018 MBA to CFO A lot of Anna Loomis’ work happens behind the scenes. Just ask her children. “If you ask my kids, all I do is go to meetings,” Loomis ’14 joked. And they aren’t totally

  • MBA to CFO MBA to CFO https://www.plu.edu/resolute/fall-2018/wp-content/uploads/sites/27/2018/09/anna-loomis-mba-cover-1024x532.jpg 1024 532 Genny Boots '18 Genny Boots '18 https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/19bfb9cee2f834144d56bb2017bb5742?s=96&d=mm&r=g September 12, 2018 October 3, 2018 A lot of Anna Loomis’ work happens behind the scenes. Just ask her children. “If you ask my kids, all I do is go to meetings,” Loomis ’14 joked. And they aren’t totally wrong. Loomis has shouldered a lot of

  • Procedures of Assessing Different Kinds of Significant Learning: Some Possibilities Printable pdfLearning How to LearnCaringHuman DimensionIntegrationApplicationFoundational KnowledgeLearning How to LearnThis learning is focused on preparing students to continue learning about a particular topic or subject after the course is over and even after they finish college. Possible Assessment Procedures: Learning Assignments: Assign students to learn something new on their own; In an essay, they

  • Lutes shine at Northwest Emmys Lutes were out in full force at the Northwest Emmy® Awards Ceremony on June 4, at the Hilton Seattle Airport & Conference Center. Ray Heacox ’76 took home two honors, an induction to the Silver Circle and an Emmy for Overall Excellence for his work with… June 23, 2016 AlumniCommunicationJournalism

  • to seek out some of the cool extras on their own.” Tina has started using video projects to allow students to research and present on special topics of interest in her course. What is one instructional strategy or student project that is particularly effective, innovative, or engaging?“I almost always assign a special project that allows the students to take what they have been learning in class and apply it by exploring a current topic that interests them personally. It is easy to think of

  • and they really enjoyed it too,” Ramirez said. “ Since then, I had it in the back of my head that I maybe wanted to do something like that, to help people” At first, Ramirez wanted to be a doctor, but admits that idea quickly changed after taking a chemistry class during J-Term from professor Dr. Andrea Munro. “I originally came in thinking I wanted to do pre-med, so that’s why I went the natural sciences route,” she said. “But I changed my mind because I enjoyed the science part better than I

  • the world again,” Anderson says. “Having natural light is so much better. Sometimes I’ll take a break and just look out the windows at the view of the trees.” Now, rectangles of sunlight illuminate sewing machines, mannequins and labeled racks of tailored costumes as students pull needles through, or stand still while Anderson (right) tracks yellow measuring tape around an arm or a waist. The costume shop also has noted a rise in efficiency in the new space, in part due to Anderson’s involvement