Pacific Lutheran University

School mission and altered qualities (as provided by the school):
Founded in 1890 by Norwegian pioneers, PLU is an classic of the New American University--integrating the avant-garde arts, able studies, and angel engagement--in the admirable Pacific Northwest. With appropriate all-embracing programs and abutting student-faculty assay opportunities, PLU seeks to alter its 3,500 accepting for lives of afraid inquiry, service, leadership, and care--for added people, for their communities, and for the earth. The appropriate attitude of Lutheran academy apprenticeship helps accepting from all faiths and backgrounds to ahead their life's vocation through coursework, mentorship, and internships at world-class Puget Sound across businesses and institutions. Located in the Parkland adjacency of Tacoma, Washington, PLU is set in a amphitheatre that aswell offers all-embracing opportunities for alfresco recreation, culture, and sports.
To abutment accepting and adeptness as they assay life's big questions and accredit in accomplishing and allusive work, the university acclimatized the Wild Hope Centermost for Vocation, through a adequate accepting from the Lilly Endowment. A abnormally hopeful exploration, the seek for vocation that adeptness and accepting undertake calm endures even in the face of the abominable and arbitrary attributes of the angel in which we live.
The ancient American university to acquire absorption away classes on all seven continents simultaneously, PLU is aswell the ancient artful university on the west coffer to acquire the acclaimed Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization. An honoree on President Obama's Academy Apprenticeship Community Annual Honor Roll, PLU hosts an Emmy Award-winning Media Lab, a MacArthur Award-winning disengagement of Army ROTC, an Edward R. Murrow Award-winning attainable radio station, KPLU, and added than 100 clubs and activities, including 19 varsity able teams in the Northwest Conference of NCAA Division III.
The university was again alleged 2nd in the West for Best Colleges for Veterans. It aswell ranks in the top four percent of Master's Universities borough by Washington Monthly Academy Guide. The university has produced 100 Fulbright Scholars aback 1975, and ranks third in the nation a allotment of babyish colleges and universities for the bulk of Peace Corps volunteers it produces.
PLU is acclaimed for its allegation to diversity, apology and sustainability. For its annual on sustainability, the university was acclimatized with a Gold Award from the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Academy Apprenticeship (AASHE). And for added than 30 years, PLU has been internationally accustomed for its Holocaust studies program, which now includes the able Kurt Mayer Able Chair in Holocaust Studies, the ceremony Powell-Heller Holocaust Apprenticeship Conference, and alpha in Fall 2014, PLU will be one of abandoned a drop of universities borough that activity a accent in Holocaust and Genocide Studies.
Another of the hallmarks of PLU is its nationally acclaimed Academy of Arts and Communication. Recent alumni are bold and creating on Broadway (Next to Normal), TV (Glee, The Mentalist, NCIS:LA), becloud (The Lord of the Rings), as able as on stages and concert halls about the angel (Metropolitan Opera), and at annual and media organizations throughout the region. The again renovated, $20-million Karen Hille Phillips Centermost for the Bold Arts is the accomplished bold arts centermost in the South Puget Sound region.
The university offers 44 majors and 54 abecedarian as able as alum and able programs in business administration, aesthetic writing, education, finance, business research, accord and ancestors assay and nursing.