丽莎Slavovsky raises a call for justice at SPU’s Day of Common Learning.
Students serve internationally on SPRINT trips
这个夏天，渡过了 西雅图 Pacific Reachout International (SPRINT) program, students and instructors journeyed to serve all over the world. 在危地马拉, they served in education and orphan care; in the Dominican Republic, 海地, 和东南亚, in community engagement; and in Uganda, in sports programs and education.
Student leaders support refugee aid efforts
过去的一年, Associated Students of 西雅图 Pacific chose to focus on activism and awareness of the global refugee crisis. 在2月16日的听证会上, six professors from a variety of disciplines gathered to discuss “Our Response to the Refugee Crisis.” Speaking from the fields of psychology, 工程, 神学, 地理位置, 文学, 政治科学, 每个共享的事实, personal photos and interactions with refugees, and encouraged students to take action.
Discussions around race, 多样性, 和包容 continue
As with many campuses around the nation, SPU的学生, 教师, and staff engaged in a series of ongoing discussions regarding issues of race, 多样性, 和包容. Several forums were held around campus, and task forces have been working towards change, particularly in light of the growth of a more diverse student body at SPU.
Industrial-organizational psychology students travel to 印度
Rob McKenna, chair and associate professor of industrial-organizational psychology, led graduate students to Hyderabad, 印度, 和一队来自 Center for Leadership Research and Development. This is the second time SPU has sent teams of professors, 业务人员, and graduate students to 印度 to partner with one of the first universities to offer graduate education to individuals from the tribal areas of 印度 and the “untouchable population” in the caste system. 在印度的地面上, these teams worked with 教师 establishing effective pedagogy, coaching nearly 50 students on presentation and interviewing skills, and helping the university establish its own foundation for fundraising and scholarships.
International Justice Mission specialist speaks at Day of Common Learning
丽莎Slavovsky, International Justice Mission’s aftercare specialist for commercial sexual exploitation casework, gave the keynote address at SPU’s 14th annual Day of Common Learning on October 21. She began a day full of lectures and presentations for SPU and the community with a lecture called “Who is My Neighbor?” She challenged the audience to embrace justice as more than an abstract ethical principle, but as the pursuit of relationships and the right use of power and authority, and as an embrace of the oppressed, 排除在外的, 被边缘化的人.
New 出国留学 programs set to launch
During the many study abroad programs scheduled for this next year, some students will be the first to venture on four new programs. 今年秋天, a group of students will travel to China with Zhiguo Ye, assistant professor of history, 道格·唐宁, associate professor of economics, to study “The Emergence of the Modern Global System,” and others will travel to 布拉格 for a study of the holocaust with the History Department’s Rebecca Hughes. 2017年冬天的一项研究, “Climate Change: Chemical Basis and Financial Accountability,” will take place in New Zealand with Ross Stewart, 上海工程学院院长, 丹尼尔·斯科菲尔德, assistant professor of chemistry, while another study led by Randy Franz, 管理学教授, 会带学生去罗马吗, 布拉格, and Paris to study “International Business in Europe.”
Students win top honors at Oxford program
SPU的学生 Rebecca Wolfe and Katelyn Cobb were among the winners of the de Jager prizes for the Scholars’ Semester in Oxford during the fall of 2015, awarded by SCIO (Scholarship and Christianity in Oxford). The de Jager prizes are funded by a generous donation to SCIO from Geoffrey and Caroline de Jager who have a longstanding commitment to encouraging excellence in education and scholarship. Of her time in Oxford, Wolfe said, “My time with SCIO was personally and academically transformative. I learned so much about the world, 网易彩票app我自己, during my 14 weeks in Oxford that I consider myself deeply changed by the place, 人, 和程序.”