The DJS Coalition is a COMMUNITY of Lutes who COMMIT to continuing their LEARNING about diversity, justice, and sustainability and INTEGRATING it as a core value of LIVING and LEADING in diverse communities.
WHY PARTICIPATE?
- Learning – Being an advocate for DJS includes a commitment to continuous learning. The DJS Coalition Series provides opportunities for practicing DJS skills that will be valuable in your community and workplaces.
- Community – Building relationships is key to living and leading in diverse communities. The DJS Coalition Series facilitates networking opportunities that cultivate intentional relationships that affirm and challenge us to be our best selves.
- Future – Employers & graduate programs are prioritizing individuals who have experience with and operate from a lens of diversity & inclusion, sustainability, and equity. The DJS Coalition can be listed on your resume and used as an experience to highlight in interviews.
WHEN CAN I JOIN?
The DJS Coalition is designed for students to join at any point in their PLU journey. The CYMK* Track offers a pathway for deepening one’s DJS leadership learning through graduation. All students begin with the Foundations track. After a student completes all components of a track, they will be recognized for their accomplishment and invited to progress. While each track is designed to be completed within an academic year, students are able to work towards recognition at their own pace.
CYMK TRACK
| Foundations | Developing a personal definition of DJS leadership and commitment to continuous DJS leadership learning (yellow) |
| Interconnections | Critically reflecting on our identity and the interconnections between ourselves, others, and our environments (Magenta) |
| Systems | Examining the relationships between human and ecological systems (Cyan) |
| Advocacy | Practicing skills for living and leading in community (Black) |
*In the world of print media, all colors can be made using a combination of Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black, commonly referred to as CYMK. We celebrate all colors, whether the color of your skin, the color of your sexuality, or the color of your culture, which signify what diversity, justice, and sustainability at PLU means and celebrate what makes us who we are, together and apart.
HOW DOES IT WORK?
Graduating in 2025?
Join the DJS Coalition and be recognized with a Spirit of Diversity Award for your commitment to DJS.
LEADERSHIP LEARNING REFLECTION
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Any experience is an opportunity to reflect on DJS leadership learning including our families, communities, work, and classroom. After participating in a DJS leadership learning experience reflect on your DJS learning through the lens of one of the DJS Leadership Learning Attributes utilizing the 5 R’s of Reflection. Complete 4 reflections, each focusing on a different DJS Leadership Learning Attribute.
Appreciating Difference
Experiencing people and environments different than our own requires us us to further understand ourselves while learning how to live and lead in our diverse communities
Embracing complexity:
The challenges of our lifetime are complicated (and so are the people surrounding them) and require us to look deeper into issues so we can recognize challenges and solutions beyond the binary.
Building Connections
Community requires cultivating intentional relationships that affirm and challenge us. This work is ongoing and a process which we trust will bring us deeper in relationship along the journey.
Enacting Change
Sustainable change requires a commitment to building relationships in order to shift old and co-create new systems so that all can thrive.
Wellbeing
Wellbeing requires the continuous practice of living in balance and harmony with ourselves and our environments.
The 5R framework for reflection will guide you through Reporting, Responding, Relating, Reasoning, and Reconstructing to make sense of a learning experience.
The 5 stages are:
- Reporting of the context of the experience
- Responding to the experience (observations, feelings, thoughts, etc.)
- Relating the experience to knowledge and skills you already have
- Reasoning about the significant factors/theory to explain the experience
- Reconstructing your practice by planning future actions for a similar experience
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS
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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)
UPCOMING COMMUNITY CONNECTION EVENTS
March & April Community Connection Coffee Chats
In March & April you can schedule a meeting with a faculty member to count as a Community Connection event. This means you can connect with a faculty member of your choice by having a coffee date to further your Leadership Learning. Your beverages will be paid for by the Center for DJS! Fill out this form out with your two questions to get your coffee cards. If you have any questions, please email djs@plu.edu!
CYMK SHOWCASE
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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 in their CYMK Track.
- Consider the leadership learning attributes you reflected on this year
- Create a design, share a photo, write a poem or reflection that shares your understanding of the following prompt:
Spring 2025 Prompt: What does DJS mean to you? What does being a leader for DJS mean to you?
- 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 description of the artifact in the Google Slide comments.
- Please email djs@plu.edu the Google Slide.
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