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festivals. He was executive director of the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus, Ohio, and was executive director of the MidAmerica Chamber Music Institute. According to PLU Provost Steven Starkovich, Bennett “brings a long and exemplary record of teaching, scholarship, planning, fund raising, budget and personnel management, leadership and service to his new position at PLU.” “Our School of Arts and Communication will be very well-served as we move forward into the future with Cameron’s thoughtful

Library Association.   Other Hispanic Heritage Month EventsPLU’s Visiting Writers Series will host author and activist Stephanie Elizondo Griest (Mexican Enough: My Life Between the Borderlines) on Sept. 24, and PLU’s Office of Admission will hold a Latinos Unidos @ PLU event on Oct. 3 in collaboration with Amigos Unidos and the Hispanic Studies program. On a related note, Associate Director of Admission Emily McCann said Davidson also is teaching a new Spanish language class series (HISP 251-252) for

Preparation, organization, punctuality and respect is how Barry Johnson leads his singing, teaching and directing in the PLU music department Posted by: Kate Williams / December 6, 2017 December 6, 2017 By Kate Williams '16Outreach ManagerBarry Johnson has performed in over 25 roles in the Seattle and Tacoma Operas, while also teaching voice and opera lessons at PLU for over 20 years. Today, you can find him teaching full-time to music students at PLU. What is your background? I was born and

cosmopolitanism,” Director David Deacon-Joyner remarked. “His musical and verbal language was both elegant and earthy. His countenance was regal and fetching. He bridges the gap between the language of entertainment and religious expression. His style has often been compared to visual artists, with his orchestra being his sonic palette.” Ellington’s 1935 Reminiscing In Tempo, an elegy for his mother, gave us a glimpse of his faith expression through his music, as did a portion of his Symphony in Black from

. Tesla Blackberry smart phones already existed, but the design for the flat, touch-screen phones we have now, the computers in our pocket, was a bold, new idea. Their product disrupted other smart phones. Likewise, Elon Musk did not invent the electric car, but with Tesla, he was able to introduce a high performance and longer-endurance vehicle, while also building his own recharging network. Musk chose to focus on improving alternative energies and how we use them. Reflecting on these developments

. They also worked with Lowcountry Alliance for Model Communities (LAMC), an organization working to promote environmental justice, confronting some of the obstacles facing predominantly African-American communities. Students took an environmental tour, as well. They also learned firsthand about food deserts, in which certain communities do not have a grocery store and people have to leave their communities and shop elsewhere to buy food. Dobies said the differences they witnessed between higher

, she led the implementation of a three-year university retention strategic plan. “We are delighted to welcome Rae Linda to PLU, and we look forward to applying her vision and experience to advancing the distinctive mission of PLU,” said PLU President Thomas W. Krise, Ph.D. Brown earned a B.S. in Music Education from the University of Connecticut in 1976; an M.A. in African American Studies and Music from Yale University in 1980; and a Ph.D. in Musicology from Yale in 1987. She was also an American

recording for a CHEM 115 course, created by Chemistry Professor Adam Glass. Communication Recordings When teaching at a distance, recordings are also useful for communicating with students. Video and audio recordings contain visual and auditory communication cues, which can foster a more personal connection and reduce the feeling of distance. Recordings can be substituted for various text-based communications including emails and announcements. It is fine to mix text with audio or video if different

teach Chinese language and its pre-modern literature excited Zhu, as the two subjects need one another. “Usually with language courses you have to teach what is right and what is wrong. You have to do it this way. It is a language.” Learning a language requires a lot of memorization and repetition, with little room for one’s subjective or imaginative opinion about the language. On the other hand, teaching a literature course requires a type of analytical and discussion-based methodology not foreign

. Persistence is the word that is the buzz word for the difference between students who stay and go. To some degree, that’s not true. Of course, people leave for all kinds of reasons. They may go on to finish successfully someplace else. The notion of persistence, I think, is part of this because you have to have some motivation to keep trying. Have you thought about or do you build that into your teaching, ways for people to fail without failing the entire class, for instance, which is certainly always a