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  • The Power of Hope By David Ward, assistant professor of Marriage and Family Therapy As a marriage and family therapist, the couples I work with tend to wait until problems in their relationship have significantly escalated before they seek therapy. Fortunately, amidst the distress, by…

    August 4, 2010 The Power of Hope By David Ward, assistant professor of Marriage and Family Therapy As a marriage and family therapist, the couples I work with tend to wait until problems in their relationship have significantly escalated before they seek therapy. Fortunately, amidst the distress, by the end of the session I usually experience a feeling that keeps me loving the work I do with these couples. David Ward sought out to understand hope within the specific context of couples therapy

  • Affect “Give quality work throughout your lives, even though there’s no way of knowing how your efforts will affect the future.” It is pretty easy to see how Dr. Bill Foege ’57 affected the future – he is the epidemiologist who is credited as the…

    December 1, 2009 Affect “Give quality work throughout your lives, even though there’s no way of knowing how your efforts will affect the future.” It is pretty easy to see how Dr. Bill Foege ’57 affected the future – he is the epidemiologist who is credited as the person who led the worldwide effort to eradicate smallpox. Foege tells people to follow their “moral compass,” and his path from medical missionary to director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention certainly pointed him in

  • College is more than your experiences in the classroom. It’s also about the relationships you build with other students. These relationships can even grow into mentorships among peers. The Sista Circle group at PLU offers that opportunity to female students. It’s a place where women…

    would be great for it.’ ”The Diversity CenterThe Diversity Center is committed to empowering the PLU community to engage in dialogue, programs, and initiatives that promote and enhance equity, agency, and action.Center for Gender & EquityPLU’s Center for Gender Equity supports, challenges, and empowers students, staff, and faculty to combat gender-based oppression and enact positive social change. Read Previous The Strength of Faculty Mentorship Read Next Get out of the classroom: Study Biology at

  • A vital part of Pacific Lutheran University’s academic experience is the opportunity for students to build relationships with faculty members working in the career fields those students want to pursue. Faculty mentorship can help strengthen a student academically, give career-related advice or feedback, be a…

    The Power of Faculty Mentorship Posted by: bennetrr / January 15, 2020 January 15, 2020 A vital part of Pacific Lutheran University’s academic experience is the opportunity for students to build relationships with faculty members working in the career fields those students want to pursue. Faculty mentorship can help strengthen a student academically, give career-related advice or feedback, be a sounding board for ideas and experiences, assist with networking — and ultimately bridge the

  • Originally published in 2012 There’s something strange that goes on with texts, readers, writers, and time. I mean, look at you: there you are, reading this now, in the spring of 2012. And here I am, in your past, and it’s not even (technically) winter…

    out to you from your past to exercise a certain power over your present. We will command your attention, insert our thoughts into yours, and take up your time. We may even change your future. You never know. And even if you choose to leave Prism lying around to read some other day, that’s okay: we’ll be here, waiting. The past will still have something to say. The potential that lies in the past appears at this (that is, my) time of year in Charles Dickens’ famous story, A Christmas Carol, in

  • Your gift to Wild Hope supports the Wild Hope student fellows (PLU juniors) in a year-long exploration of vocation and their individual projects; training faculty and staff to serve as mentors in

    Give to Wild HopeYour gift to Wild Hope supports the Wild Hope student fellows (PLU juniors) in a year-long exploration of vocation and their individual projects; training faculty and staff to serve as mentors in vocation for students; offering workshops for alumni on vocational discernment at mid-career and when approaching retirement; securing the latest resources on vocation to support students, staff, faculty, and alumni; and assisting in the publication of Center research on the difference

  • Dialogue among faculty and administrators involved with diversity to evaluate effectiveness of existing committee structure and to propose changes.

    Dialogue among faculty and administrators involved with diversity to evaluate effectiveness of existing committee structure and to propose changes.

  • Theresa Power-Drutis is the director of New Connections, an organization dedicated to helping people successfully re-enter the community after prison.

    Theresa Power-DrutisTheresa Power-Drutis is the director of New Connections, an organization dedicated to helping people successfully re-enter the community after prison. She is co-facilitator of the Community Partnership for Transitional Services (Pierce County) and of the Hilltop Village non-violent communication practice group. Ms. Power-Drutis co-founded Guadalupe House, a transitional house for people experiencing homelessness. She also co-founded The Lesotho Connection (TLC), an

  • The PLU Wild Hope Center for Vocation promotes and provides a range of opportunities to engage with, discern, and live out vocation.

    Your browser does not support the video tag. Throughout the seasons of the year, the Center helps students, staff, faculty, and alumni shape lives of meaning and purpose here in Parkland and throughout the world. At PLU, vocation means being called with others to promote human and ecological flourishing. PLU Wild Hope Bjug Day 2023Click Here to View the 2024 Essay Contest Winners! Click Here

    Wild Hope Center for Vocation
    Nesvig Alumni Center 518 South 123rd Street Tacoma, WA 98447
  • The success of the Wild Hope Center for Vocation was established, in good measure, through the lives of the faculty mentors who engage their students with questions of meaning and purpose—in the

    Find us in the PLU NewsLaree Winer and Jen Rude detail how the Wild Hope Center and Campus Ministry are collaborating to combat a growing "culture of busyness"Click here to read the article!Wild Hope Initiatives Engaging the mind, shaping the futureThe success of the Wild Hope Center for Vocation was established, in good measure, through the lives of the faculty mentors who engage their students with questions of meaning and purpose—in the classroom, during a casual conversation, through