PLU

Unionization push by PLU faculty could have national implications

Gabriel Spitzer — Wed, 01 May 2013 01:23:33 +0000

Disclosure: Pacific Lutheran University holds the license for KPLU. KPLU’s programming staffers are the university’s only unionized employees.

Pacific Lutheran University is trying to fend off attempts by members of its faculty to unionize, and the outcome could have national implications.

The push is coming from “contingent faculty,” the non-tenure track professors, lecturers and instructors who teach about a third of PLU’s course credits. Those people get paid significantly less than regular faculty, and their employment status is much shakier.

Pacific Lutheran University names new president

Paula Wissel — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:28:22 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQXJ0v9GxnI

(Video of incoming PLU president Thomas Krise by journalists at PLU's The Mooring Mast student newspaper.)

Pacific Lutheran University has a new president. Thomas W. Krise takes the helm at the private university this June. He replaces Loren Anderson, who’s retiring.

Krise comes to PLU from the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif., where he’s been the dean of the school of arts and sciences. Krise, an Episcopalian, is the first non-Lutheran to head PLU since it was founded in 1890.

PLU symposium: Water is rare, scary and flows to the powerful

Jake Ellison — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:04:01 +0000

Students journalists covering "Our Thirsty Planet," a symposium about water put on by Pacific Lutheran University’s Wang Center for Global Education, have wrapped up their coverage on "Water For Thought," a Website created for KPLU's experiment in student-sourced journalism.

With videos and stories, the students review the impact of the symposium and new perspectives on water. Below are headlines and highlights: