DJS Coalition

Students who participate in the DJS Collation have the opportunity for:

1. DJS Leadership Learning – Being an advocate for DJS includes committing to continuous learning. Each year the DJS Coalition will feature a different PLU Leadership Learning Attribute and offer opportunities to practice skills that are valuable in your community and workplace.
2. Community – Building relationships is key to living and leading in diverse communities. The DJS Coalition encourages people to show up consistently to cultivate intentional relationships that affirm and challenge them.
3. Recognition –  Employers and graduate programs look for individuals who actively engage the frameworks and values of diversity, justice, and sustainability.  The DJS Coalition can be listed on your resume and used as an experience to highlight in interviews.  Additionally, each time you complete a DJS Coalition track you will be recognized by our community!

DJS Leadership Learning Opportunities invite students to 1)Practice skills for living and leading in diverse communities 2)Critically self-reflect on their identity and the interconnections between themselves and others 3)Examine the relationships between human-ecological systems and/or 4) Build or deepen their relationships with others

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DJS Coalition Community Connection events focus on a DJS leadership learning topic, encourage DJS leadership skill practice, and engage a community reflection.  There are multiple DJS Coalition Community Connections events hosted throughout the year.  Chose from the programs listed here to meet this experience. (Select “view all events” to see all of your options)  

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When we draw connections between experiences we invite space for the development of solutions, partnerships, and ways of engaging that prioritizes the interconnectedness of DJS.  For the CYMK Showcase, we are asking students to design an artifact that ties together their DJS leadership learning experienced during their track: 

• Consider the leadership learning attributes you reflected on,
• Remember the Community Connections events you attended,
• Create a design, share a photo, write a poem or reflection that demonstrates your experience. 

We invite you to be creative! What you create will be shared on a single Google Slide (960×540 pixels)and include a short paragraph (3-5 sentences) describing the artifact in the Google Slide comments. Please email djs@plu.edu the Google Slide.

To receive your DJS Coalition pin, you must complete the Senior Reflection, and you will also be included in the DJS Coalition digital yearbook. The reflection for the spring is due May 8th, 2026. If you haven’t already, please submit your photo for the yearbook to djs@plu.edu.

Senior Reflection Prompt:

Through your relationships, learning in your courses, and involvement on campus and in the community, you have learned, un-learned and re-learned about the interconnectedness of diversity, justice, and sustainability (DJS).  Remember DJS is a framework that engages the interdependency of ourselves, our communities, and our environments. With this framework, we desire to create systems and build relationships where all can thrive. It is not just our office, it shows up everywhere. With this…

• What does DJS mean to you?

• How has identity/culture shaped your understanding of DJS?

• What seasons or events of your PLU experience have shaped your understanding of DJS?

• If connected, how did you integrate DJS into your capstone experience?

• How do you hope to integrate your commitments to DJS post graduation?