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While at PLU, Angela Pierce-Ngo ’12 was worried by a troubling pattern. After the first year of college, many peers and friends — especially classmates of color — left school or took an extremely long break. Even as she worked as a diversity advocate and…
normalize a “nontraditional timeline” and education at any age. “As we continue to explore, we figure out our goals, but even those change. If students don’t graduate from a traditional school setting, what alternatives and approaches can we offer?” Read Previous International Complexities: Mycal Ford ’12 discusses how he thinks about global policy Read Next Asking Historic Questions: Beth Griech-Polelle, PLU Kurt Mayer Chair of Holocaust Studies COMMENTS*Note: All comments are moderated If the comments
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On the Path to Peace Communication Professor Amanda Feller’s peace-building cohort, all graduating in 2014, comes together at PLU. From left: Caitlin Zimmerman, Lauren Corboy, Sydney Barry, Kendall Daugherty, Rachel Samardich, Rachel Espasandin, Jessica Sandler and Anna McCracken. (Photo: John Froschauer/PLU) Eight Graduating Women Give…
community members and Parkland youth to meet, talk about personal experiences and begin the process of building relationships and understanding others. She founded the Network for Peacebuilding and Conflict Management and now is its student president. In the spring of 2013 she received a Kurt Mayer Holocaust Studies Fellowship and spent the summer conducting research on issues in Israel/Palestine; she was accepted to participate in a peace conference hosted by the Kroc Institute at the University of
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At a summer 2023 banquet launching the Uukumwe Project, Sanet Steenkamp, executive director of Namibia’s Ministry of Education, Arts, and Culture, advised a group of Namibian and American teachers not to hold back. “The children,” she said, “deserve for us not to hold back.” Steenkamp’s…
a classroom-level, the U.S. and Namibian teams focused on implementing high-impact practices. Anna Parker ’17, who’s worked as a 4th and 5th grade teacher in Tacoma, partnered with Lentroutie Cloete, who teaches math, social studies, and Afrikaans to 4th to 7th graders, on a combination of modeling, co-teaching, and small group work. Fitzgerald partnered with Maria Kainamses, a kindergarten teacher whose goals were to increase on-task behavior and teach emotional regulation. Together, Fitzgerald
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A year of achievement and a Decade of Change Dear Colleagues and Friends, It is a great joy for me to welcome each of you to University Fall Conference as we prepare to launch the 2010-2011 academic year, the 121st year in the life of…
$75 million mark in May, and on to just over $80 million today. Milestones last year included new endowed chairs in Holocaust studies and Elementary Education as well as an endowed professorship in Lutheran studies. Project Access, part of our commitment to enhanced student scholarship support, reached its $1 million goal. In summary, stable enrollment and fund-raising success, when combined with clear spending priorities and careful attention to fiscal matters, allowed us to balance our operating
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By President Thomas W. Krise Sept. 8, 2014 We are delighted to welcome you all to the 2014 University Convocation!
efforts in making inclusive excellence a core value of PLU. We seek to foster a community that goes beyond tolerance of difference to one that is guided by the principles of equity, social justice, cultural competence and engaged citizenship. This comes through in our academic work including our annual Holocaust Education Conference, and this fall will also mark the beginning of a Minor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, one of only a few in the nation. It comes through in our commitment to studying
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A National Honor for ‘Digging into Cancer’ ‘Fast Company’ magazine names Hunt one of its 100 Most Creative People of 2014 . A Survivor in the Global Spotlight Katie Hunt ’11 fought cancer at PLU, leads the emerging field of paleo-oncology and wowed the crowd…
archaeologist first and a cancer survivor second,” Hunt told the crowd. Of course, we know there’s much more to Hunt’s story than that. Certainly TED audiences will be impressed and inspired—but they heard only the first 27 years of it. Katie Hunt has a lot more story to live. Read Previous PLU’s New Holocaust and Genocide Studies Minor Read Next Musical Memories 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
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Major in History Minimum of 36 semester hours; including 4 semester hours of historical methods and research (HIST 301) and 4 semester hours of seminar credits (HIST 499).
concepts in global studies and the perspectives of different peoples, states, and organizations as they relate to world events. Through specific units on global movements and reactions, global poverty and inequality, and global conflict and cooperation, students will gain global literacy and knowledge of contemporary issues. May be cross-listed with GLST 210. (4) HIST 218 : Women and Gender in World History - ES, GE This course uses a comparative and historical approach to understand gender ideologies
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Major in Religion 32 semester hours RELI 499: Capstone Research Seminar (offered only in Spring semester) 8 semester hours RELI coursework from Line One: Christian Traditions (RC): RELI 212, 220-229,
undermined social norms, and how those social norms impacted conceptions of gender, health, poverty, authority, and the sacred. (4) RELI 221 : Medieval Christian History - RL, IT This course introduces students to the history of Christianity in centuries identified as "medieval", 500-1500. Through original sources and contemporary studies, students will explore the interplay between Christian values and practices and diverse cultures in eastern and western Europe; the charisma of various types of
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The Wang Center Research Grant Program is designed to support students, faculty, and faculty-student teams that seek to conduct original research in an international setting.
department chair (students) Approval of department chair and dean (individual faculty and student-faculty teams) Congratulations to Anna Leon-Guerrero and Anne Kelleher whose 2018 Wang Center research grant lead to a publication, “Heads Above the Parapet: Personal Motivation and Professional Practice Among Northern Ireland’s Community of Grassroots Peace Practitioners,” published by Peace and Conflict Studies. Check out this video about Dr. Julie Smith and April Kelly’s 2024-2025 research project in
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In Times Challenging and Uncertain: Plans Change – Values and Mission Endure By President Loren J. Anderson Welcome to our 2009 University Fall Conference. This morning we gather and prepare to launch the 120th year in the life of Pacific Lutheran University. We do so with…
laboratory. This past spring the Jolita Hylland Benson Chair in Elementary Education was established and fully funded by the Benson Family Foundation, and throughout the year, progress continued on funding fully the Kurt Mayer Chair in Holocaust Studies. Another key to advancing our quality initiative is to continue to seek funding from non-traditional sources. Already this year we have secured more than $2 million in federal and state support so that both the safety and quality of living in Hinderlie
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