Whois & Analysis for plu.edu

Pacific Lutheran University (PLU), founded by Norwegian Lutheran pioneers in 1890, is a private university offering liberal arts and professional school programs located in Parkland, a suburb of Tacoma, Washington, United States.

PLU is sponsored by the 580 congregations of Region I of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

PLU has approximately 3,300 students enrolled.

As of 2016, the school employs approximately 220 full-time professors on the 156-acre (630,000 m2) woodland campus.

The liberal arts (Latin: artes liberales) are those subjects or skills that in classical antiquity were considered essential for a free person (Latin: liberalis, "worthy of a free person") to know in order to take an active part in civic life, something that (for Ancient Greece) included participating in public debate, defending oneself in court, serving on juries, and most importantly, military service.

Grammar, logic, and rhetoric were the core liberal arts, while arithmetic, geometry, the theory of music, and astronomy also played a (somewhat lesser) part in education.

Civic engagement or civic participation, according to the American Psychological Association, is "individual and collective actions designed to identify and address issues of public concern".

It can be defined as citizens working together to make a change or difference in the community.

Civic engagement includes communities working together in both political and non-political actions.

The goal of civic engagement is to address public concerns and promote the quality of the community.

Faculty (in North American usage) or academics (in British usage) are the academic staff of a university: professors of various ranks, lecturers, and/or researchers.

The term faculty in this sense is most commonly used in this context in the United States and Canada, and generally includes professors of various ranks: adjunct professors, assistant professors, associate professors, and (full) professors, usually tenured (or tenure-track) in terms of their contract of employment.

In British English "faculty" usually refers to a university's department, not to the employees.

Studying abroad is the act of a student pursuing educational opportunities in a country other than one's own.

This can include primary, secondary and post-secondary students.

The number of students studying abroad represents only about 1% of all students enrolled at institutions of higher education in the United States.