Dr. Jes Takla

Associate Dean for Campus Life, Co-Curricular Learning, & Assessment

she/her

Jes Takla

Office Location:Anderson University Center - Room 164

  • Professional
  • Biography

Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy (student), Higher Education, Azusa Pacific University, 2023
  • Master of Arts, College Student Personnel, Bowling Green State University, 2008
  • Bachelor of Fine Arts, Photography & Fiber Material Studies, School of the Art Institute Chicago, 2006

Responsibilities

Campus Life Responsibilities

Student Life Responsibilities

  • Serve on Student Life Council
  • Coordinate the annual Student Life Assessment process and support divisional program review and accreditation planning 
  • Represent division on Institutional Effectiveness team
  • Co-convener THRIVE* Network (*Transition, Holistic Wellbeing, Retention, Innovation, Vocation, Engagement)
  • Co-coordinate divisional onboarding, trainings, and events
  • PLUS 100 Coordination for Learning-Community-Linked Sections & Instructor 
  • Administrator On-Call (Campus Crisis Response)
  • Conduct hearing educator for campus policy violations

Selected Publications

Selected Presentations

  • NASPA Western Regional Conference, Radical imagination and critical creativity praxis for liberatory futures [Conference session], Anaheim, CA (2022, November)
  • NASPA Western Regional Conference, Radically (re)Imagining higher education: Liberatory, abolitionist, and decolonized [Conference session; co-presented with Harris, N. R., & Plascencia Saldana, B.], Anaheim, CA (2022, November)
  • ASHE Annual Conference, Bringing the literature to life through storytelling praxis: From scholarship to collective action [Conference session; co-presented with Harris, N. R., & Plascencia Saldana, B.], Las Vegas, NV (2022, November)
  • Imagine Otherwise Professional Development Seminar, Cultivating critical creativity [Seminar session], Tacoma, WA (2022, June/July; 2021, April)
  • NASPA Western Regional Conference, Imagine otherwise: Advancing diversity and inclusion in higher education through critical creativity [Conference session; co-presented with Hambrick, A.], San Francisco, CA (2021, November)
  • NASPA Western Regional Conference, Storytelling praxis for courageous and resilient women’s leadership [Conference session; co-presented with Harris, N. R., & Plascencia Saldana, B.], San Francisco, CA (2021, November)
  • NASPA Region V Senior Student Affairs Officers Retreat, Cultivating critical creativity [Conference session], Virtual (2021, August)
  • NASPA Western Regional Conference, Connecting through creativity: Developing habits of “everyday creativity” in student affairs [Conference session; co-presented with Betron, L.], Portland OR (2019, November)
  • ACPA Annual Convention, Flourish and flow: Cultivating creative mindfulness to support student success [Conference session; co-presented with Avery, L., & Rodgers, M.], Houston, TX (2018, March)
  • NASPA Annual Conference, Flourish and flow: Cultivating creative mindfulness to support student success [Conference session; co-presented with Avery, L., & Rodgers, M.], Philadelphia, PA (2018, March)
  • ACUHO-I Annual Conference and Exposition, Thriving at Pacific Lutheran University: Schreiner’s Thriving Quotient and PLU’s residential student experience. In J. Lauer (Chair), Completing the loop: Connecting building design and student experience [Pre-Conference Workshop; co-presented with Garrett, S.], Seattle, WA (2016, July)
  • Pacific Lutheran University Student Learning Colloquium: Understanding Student Learning, Understanding student learning outside of the classroom: Residential learning communities and residential linked courses [Colloquium session; co-presented with Maloney, M.], Tacoma, WA (2016, March)
  • NASPA Annual Conference, It takes a village: Storytelling as a marketing tool (Featured Program), New Orleans, LA (2015, March)
  • ACPA Annual Convention, It takes a village: Storytelling as a marketing tool, Tampa, FL (2015, March)
  • Washington Higher Education Sustainability Conference, unPLUg: Sustainability programming [Conference session; co-presented with Cooley, C.], Bellingham, WA (2014, February)
  • PACURH Annual Conference, unPLUg: Sustainability programming [Conference session; co-presented with Barker, P.], Spokane, WA (2013, November)

Biography

Jes began at PLU in 2013. Prior to PLU, Jes worked in Campus Life at her undergraduate alma mater, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, for five years after completing her masters degree from Bowling Green State University. Jes grew up in a Navy family and has lived all over, including Virginia, Hawai’i, Florida, Spain, Chicago, Ohio, and the Pacific Northwest. Outside of work, Jes enjoys spending time with her wife, family, friends, and dogs.