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year really motivated both students and faculty, and we were able to bring that motivation into the classroom through applied projects. Faculty were able to bring these issues into discussions of literature, history, philosophy, ethics, and environmental equity. How have faculty, staff and students responded to that challenge? I’m continually amazed at how my colleagues pivoted so quickly to online classrooms, how they spent the entire summer learning very different kinds of pedagogies and

customers having to go to the store and talk to someone face-to-face — that impact was important to me,” he says. NETFLIX AND NO TIME TO CHILL A couple of weeks after his final interview, Ronquillo was sitting in a history class when he received a phone call. It was his recruiter asking him how the interview went. Ronquillo says he was disappointed, initially believing this was simply a check-in call, and not the offer he had been hoping to receive. But after listening to Ronquillo’s experience, the

standards. “Now that more people of color occupy places of prestige, the topic is becoming more prominent.”   Her capstone explores the U.S. history of Black hair discrimination, the mental and physical risks of conforming to Eurocentric beauty standards and hazards of discriminatory workplace, school and social work policies—along with promising developments such as state and federal CROWN acts. The 2023 CROWN (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair) Workplace Research Study found that

classroom a week after the election. “This is where everyone is coming that cares the most. We’re going to get people with a lot of emotion and people who are extremely invested in this.” Sill and Schleeter urged the students to consider how social scientists would engage such an event, by recognizing the significance and trying to remain impartial. “We want to think of this as a very unique and amazing opportunity in which we are living and experiencing history as it’s unfolding in real time,” Sill

look like in the distant future—at, say, our sesquicentennial in 2040, or our bicentennial in 2090. Do we want to continue with exactly the current mixture of programs, degrees, enrollment figures, and so on?  If not, then in what direction should we go? And how shall we decide? …  One way we might proceed is to look back at our history and see if our founders might give us some guidance. The first president of Pacific Lutheran University, the Rev. Bjug Harstad, wrote in the first issue of The

Poetry (feature), Ploughshares, The Idaho Review, Seneca Review and other magazines. His band, Professor Len and the Big Night, combines a literary reading with live music. An electric guitarist as well as a writer, he is currently collaborating with the composer Garrett Shatzer on a blues-influenced piece in the art-song tradition to be sung by the tenor David Saul Lee, accompanied by CityWater New Music Ensemble. In addition to writing the text, Glazner will play electric guitar with CityWater in

got me thinking about just the span of history that she lived through in the 20th century. A lot of very dramatic things happened during her lifetime. I became very curious about that juxtaposition between the small individual life against the background of large historical events. Obviously, that’s the case for any life, including ours, but for her, I started to wonder how her life was related to larger things like immigration, war and capitalism. So that really is what happened, that the

of its distinguished history. My thanks go to everyone here for being part of this special day and for caring about this institution and the precious people who make it what it is. I’d like to extend special thanks to my predecessors who join me today on the stage. We are honored to have Loren Anderson with us. His long and distinguished presidency bequeathed a robust and spirited institution. Eugene Wiegman is here as well. He had a transformational term as president and has continued to be a

working in video games, I became increasingly uncomfortable with the direction games were going, as they became more violent and graphic. When I finally left the industry to resume my teaching career, it became my intention to use my compositional talents for more noble purposes. My favorite project to date is a score to an actual film, FW Murnau’s 1928 silent classic City Girl.  The film, I believe, is a work of art, not something of fleeting value like most video games. City Girl was one of the last

thrilled with the results. One of the collaborating businesses this spring has already made plans with a graduating senior to continue contracting with them as a professional consultant.Josh Wallace: The Art of Business, The Business of ArtEmphasis on international—and multicultural—business For decades, The School of Business has offered a focus on global business education. Undergraduates can partake in PLU study away programs that send students around the world. In the PLU Master of Business