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languages, and created a positive, identity-affirming environment for everyone to grow and learn.How has your faith influenced you as you pursue your teaching career?  I am Catholic, and I have always been in religiously affiliated schools. I attended Catholic school from kindergarten through 12th grade, and I have had the privilege and the blessing to be able to observe teaching in the local Catholic schools. I have always said that I want my students to be critical thinkers and social justice leaders

Jared Wright ’14, discusses working on refugee resettlement, impactful internships, and more Posted by: Marcom Web Team / March 4, 2020 March 4, 2020 By Zach PowersPLU Marketing & CommunicationsTACOMA, WASH. (March. 2, 2020) — Jared Wright ‘14, political science and global studies double major, arrived at PLU eager to engage in community work and excited to study social justice. He didn’t have specific plans and didn’t know what it would all look like, but he can clearly remember the excitement

around in an old Harvard green bag that she slung over her slumped shoulders. She had glasses, braces, long hair pulled straight back. She wore heavy brown and white oxford with thin anklets, and her long hems were always crooked. Hanging around with Sally damaged my fragile popularity, but she was still my dearest friend. Today Sally is a world-class geneticist at an eminent university. During our rare encounters, we continue to share an uncanny unity of vision about education, and a resulting

one of the children chosen to come here,” he said. David Akuien ’10 admires a painting series in Mortvedt Library on world conflict. The painting is by Nick Butler. Life at PLU wasn’t automatically easy for Akuien. He felt different. He was different. He’d sit in a class and hear the problems his fellow students would talk about and realize how disconnected they were from the horrors of his past. “I didn’t identify with anybody,” he said, “That was the thing that frightened me.” But through the

through summer 2021 are negotiated between participants, their assigned mentors/facilities, and ORISE. Factors such as class schedules, housing availability and facility schedules may be taken into consideration when determining appointment start and end dates. Interns will be assigned to research projects and/or other technical activities under the guidance of a mentor. Per week time commitment varies by location. HS-POWER participants are required to have health insurance coverage during the

“Practicing Courage” by Margaret Matthews Posted by: Reesa Nelson / March 10, 2020 March 10, 2020 Margaret Matthews is a junior at Pacific Lutheran University who lived in Virginia and Oregon before moving to Tacoma for college. She will graduate in 2021 with a BFA with a concentration in Sculpture. She is already putting her talents to use with a class project that was selected for public display.Practicing CourageIn Mare Blocker’s 2D design course, required for all art majors, students

Austin Beierman ‘18 Posted by: juliannh / February 23, 2022 February 23, 2022 By Victoria SchultzAustin Beierman, class of 2018, Reike Scholar, and newly appointed Director of Accessibility and Accommodations, continues to live the Diversity Center’s mission of care and equity.As a high school junior, Austin joined a PLU volleyball camp sponsored by College Bound, a non-profit that helped with college access programming. Austin explained that he and his friends would eat in the UC and then play

, PLU Concert: 8:00 p.m., Lagerquist Concert Hall, PLU This special performance, featuring world-renowned Metropolitan Opera soprano Angela Meade, class of 2001, will be broadcast on PBS-TV stations nationwide. Tickets include pre- and post-concert receptions and reserved seating and benefit PLU’s Music Scholarship Fund. Read Previous PLU Music offers online ticket sales Read Next Choir of the West receives high honors in global ranking LATEST POSTS PLU’s Director of Jazz Studies, Cassio Vianna

) get to do this with their class.” Read Previous Grads charged to be global citizens Read Next Tutoring program touches refugees COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments don't appear for you, you might have ad blocker enabled or are currently browsing in a "private" window. LATEST POSTS Three students share how scholarships support them in their pursuit to make the world better than how they found it June 24, 2024 Kaden Bolton ’24 explored civics and public policy on campus and

in the spring when we have between 50 and 75 people attend.” “There are many different reasons why people come to Jewish club. Some of them want to keep their traditions alive. Many of them are in a religion class and they are interested in learning more. Many of them are just friends of ours,” Eaton said. “I think some of them only come for my freshly baked bread.” “For me spirituality is a sense of oneness and a sense of community. You are part of something larger than yourself. Whether you are