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, associate professor and chair of economics, in a statistics class that Earlywine saw a future path — one he would eventually excel in and become passionate about. "I think about all the professors who I don’t want to leave. What do you say to them? Thanks for helping me with my life? It’s crazy."- Joel Earlywine “She was like ‘you need to come over to the econ department, take my health econ class,’ and so she has been a really great mentor ever since,” Earlywine said. “I’ve been in her office countless

and landing leading roles in “Cabaret,” the two became fast friends and both succumbed to the magnetic pull of the stage.“It was really cool because, at that point, the theater department was quite small,” remembers Huertas. “We got a lot of free rein to explore and try different things.” After changing their majors to theater, Huertas and deLohr began dreaming of what their futures after graduation might look like. “I never had aspirations to go to New York or anything like that,” says deLohr. “I

Department of History to the Division of Social Sciences derives, ultimately, from some such view of the historian’s labor.)There has always existed a certain skepticism about history’s claims to offer positive knowledge of the past. Such skepticism has usually been founded upon a deep-seated anti-intellectualism or irrationalism, and reflects the suspicion that history is not philosophy teaching by examples, but “an agreed upon fable” (Napoleon), “merely gossip” (Oscar Wilde), or, more provocatively, “a

guarantee disrupts the general practice of higher education institutions, especially private universities, of routinely announcing three to five percent tuition increases each spring.Ferguson and her colleagues in admissions have been working closely with the university’s marketing and communications department to ensure that the language, branding, and outreach campaigns for these initiatives reach their intended audience. “We’re always thinking about things like what words will cut through the noise

am more aware that such good news and progress at the institutional level is built upon excellent work and real achievement at the individual and department level. A brief, and admittedly incomplete, scan across the campus indicates that last year was no exception to that rule! Across the academic division of the university, the heart of the story is the daily work of over 250 individual faculty who with great expertise and professionalism, as well as personal care and attention, teach and mentor

resilience. And I believe it is fair to claim that we have, in important ways, grown stronger along the way. But the REAL measure of success, the MORE important measure, is the fact that over these last two difficult economic years, we have not lost focus on our mission, on our program, nor on our great calling to be a university of excellence that educates students for lives of both success and service. So once again last year, across the span of this beautiful campus, in every division and department

academic year. It’s distinctive to PLU and characteristic of our collaborative, generous, and spirited culture. That culture is a product of all of the diversity of talents in this room. It takes a wide variety of skills, abilities, outlooks, and world views to create the PLU experience for our students. Everyone in this room is a key player—the facilities and grounds keeping teams are the Department of First Impressions and they help us all have a magnificent and beautiful campus on which to work; our