多丽丝·卡恩斯·古德温在西雅图大学第20届市区商务早餐会上发表讲话.
多丽丝·卡恩斯·古德温 speaks at 20th Downtown Business Breakfast and on campus
多丽丝·卡恩斯·古德温, 世界著名的总统历史学家和普利策奖得主, was the keynote speaker for SPU’s annual Downtown Business Breakfast on April 8. 她讨论了当前的政治气候, looked back at the presidential primaries of 1912 between William Taft and Theodore Roosevelt, 批评竞选资金和误导性的好的赌博软件推荐报道. 她还于4月7日星期四在皇家布鲁厄姆馆发表了讲话. 在她的校园演讲中, “当他们年轻的时候。,” she offered reflections on 总统 from Abraham 林肯 to Franklin Roosevelt and their paths to leadership. 演讲结束后，西雅图大学历史学教授迈克尔·汉密尔顿主持了一个问答环节&一个会话. 古德温记录了许多美国军人的生活.S. 总统. 她的书 《对手团队:亚伯拉罕·林肯的政治天才 最近被史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格改编成奥斯卡获奖影片 林肯.
圣诞节的神圣之声
11月30日在西雅图麦考大厅, SPU’s annual 圣诞节的神圣之声 performance once again treated the region to the best of sacred Advent and Christmas music from around the world. Ringing in the holiday spirit through their performances of traditional Advent and Christmas carols were established Music Dep艺术ment favorites, 包括音乐会合唱团, 管弦乐合奏团, 交响乐团, 女子合唱团, 及男子合唱团, 还有一个新成员:SPU的福音合唱团. 16年来，这场音乐会获得了越来越多的赞誉和欢迎. Sacred Sounds is highly anticipated; it attracts an audience from all over the Pacific Northwest and beyond.
泰特在专业发展系列演讲
周四, 10月8日, the Professional Development Series hosted by the Center for Scholarship and Faculty Development and by Educational Technology and Media featured Daryl A. 泰特. 教学技术学者和专业人士, 泰特 is currently the eLearning instructional developer for Tarrant County College District. He gave a lecture called “Practicing What We Preach: Capitalizing on the Dynamic Interactions Between Content, 《教育学与技术》，SPU图书馆. 那天晚上, 在SPU教育学系列演讲的公开演讲中, 泰特介绍了“技术”, 第一自由卫理公会教堂的“伟大作品的工具”.
Dean’s Speaker Series welcomes 奥兰多阿什福德, 荷美航运公司总裁
周二, 10月27日, 奥兰多阿什福德, 荷美航运公司总裁, spoke on campus as a guest in the qu艺术erly Dean’s Speaker Series hosted by the 商学院，政府, 和经济学. This series brings together outstanding local and regional business professionals with our undergraduate students to share insights and bring the work world into the classroom. 作为荷美航空的总裁, 阿什福德负责销售, 市场营销, 收益管理, 部署, 行程计划, 公共关系, 酒店业务, 和策略. 阿什福德的书, Talentism, 探讨技术和人际网络如何弥合技能差距, 提升业务表现, 改善社会.
Digital Wisdom Series hosts three guest speakers on technology, theology, and culture
由教务长创新基金资助, 服务, 和SPU图书馆, the 图书馆 hosted a lecture series: “Digital Wisdom: Conversations at the Intersection of Technology, 神学, 和文化.” Three special guests visited in November: Jana Bennett from the University of Dayton, 他讲的是神学, 身份, and social media; Brent Waters of Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, who spoke on “The Moral Terrain of the Emerging Technoculture”; and Michael Burdett of Oxford University, who spoke about “Forming the (Virtual) Self: Christian Practice and Internet Living.”
耶鲁大学的威利·詹姆斯·詹宁斯就神学、艺术和身体发表演讲
周四, 10月15日, 威利·詹姆斯·詹宁斯, an associate professor of systematic theology and Africana studies at Yale Divinity School, 参加神学的小组讨论, 艺术, 还有身体. 和他一起的是谢尔·斯特恩斯, associate professor of theology at the 西雅图 神学院 and Psychology, 劳拉·拉斯沃斯, 好的赌博软件推荐的艺术教授. 后来, Jennings delivered an evening lecture at the University of Washington titled “Embodying the Artistic Spirit and the Prophetic Arts.” Jennings’ visit was hosted by 西雅图太平洋神学院 and the University of Washington Comparative Religion Program, 并由牛津期刊提供 文学与神学.
ETM hosts Pacansky-Brock “Year of Empowerment” workshop, Gary Stager on “Invent to Learn”
周四, 3月31日, Michelle Pacansky-Brock led a workshop on inclusivity in learning environments as p艺术 of “2015–2016 The Year of Empowerment,教育技术和媒体系列演讲. Pacansky-Brock is a noted leader in higher education with more than 15 years of experience teaching diverse students in face-to-face, 混合, 以及网络环境. She was the recipient of the Sloan-C/ OLC Online Teaching Excellence Award and served as conference chair for the 8th Annual OLC International Symposium of Emerging Technologies for Online Learning. Pacansky-Brock is currently a teaching and learning innovations specialist at California State University, 海峡群岛, 她还在那里教授《赌博十大靠谱软件》, 一个面向未来教师的在线课程.
Student earns spotlight for effort to distribute unused food from 校园餐厅 to homeless
Physiology major Maya Swineh艺术 was featured in a story by radio station KPLU for her leadership in establishing a certified chapter of the Food Recovery Network at SPU. 通过斯威哈特和她的团队的努力, leftover food from 餐饮服务 is being recovered to feed the homeless at Peter’s Place, 南西雅图的一个避难所. 自1月份以来，工作人员已经帮助回收了近3000磅的食物. SPU is now one of three universities in Washington state (and the first private university) involved in the Food Recovery Network.
学生通过CityQuest服务建立社区
2015年秋季前一周, SPU’s incoming class spread out across 西雅图 to help local community members with service projects. Around 700 students p艺术icipated in CityQuest — doing forest work at Cheasty Greenspace in Rainier Vista; landscaping and cleaning at the Ballard Boys and Girls Club; tent mending at the 西雅图 住房 and Tent City 3 at Bryn Mawr United Methodist Church near Renton; distributing flyers for Hope Central, a pediatrics medical center in Rainier Valley; inventorying supplies from a backpack drive at Coalition on Homelessness; and helping set up a fundraising event for Food Lifeline.
罗颂灿在教会领袖论坛上发言
作为教会领袖论坛的一部分, 宋赞罗周二在教堂发表了讲话, 2月9日, 在第一自由卫理公会教堂. He is an SPU adjunct professor teaching the first course in 西雅图太平洋神学院’s new Master of Arts in Asian American Ministry degree. 拉是弥尔顿B. Engebretson Professor of Church Growth and Evangelism at North Park Seminary, 福音圣约教会中被任命的牧师, and founding senior pastor of Cambridge 社区 Fellowship Church in Cambridge, 麻萨诸塞州. 他是全国公认的演说家和几本书的作者, 包括他最近的出版物, 先知的悲叹:乱世呼唤正义 (2015).