About Pacific Lutheran University

Pacific Lutheran University (PLU) is a private Lutheran academe in Parkland, Washington. It was founded by Norwegian Lutheran immigrants in 1890. PLU is sponsored by the 580 congregations of Region I of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. PLU has nearly 3,100 students enrolled. As of 2017, the researcher employs approximately 220 full-time professors upon the 156-acre (630,000 m²) woodland campus.

PLU consists of the College of Arts and Sciences (including of the Divisions of Humanities, Natural Sciences, and Social Sciences), the School of Arts and Communication, the School of Business, the School of Education and Kinesiology, and the School of Nursing.

Tacoma (/təˈkoʊmə/ tə-KOH-mə) is a mid-sized urban port city and the county seat of Pierce County, Washington, United States. The city is upon Washington’s Puget Sound, 32 miles (51 km) southwest of Seattle (of which it is the largest satellite city), 31 miles (50 km) northeast of the state capital, Olympia, and 58 miles (93 km) northwest of Mount Rainier National Park. The population was 191,704, according to the 2010 census. Tacoma is the second-largest city in the Puget Sound area and the third-largest in the state. Tacoma also serves as the middle of business commotion for the South Sound region, which has a population of re 1 million.

Tacoma adopted its pronounce after the reachable Mount Rainier, originally and locally called Takhoma or Tahoma. It is locally known as the “City of Destiny” because the Place was selected to be the western terminus of the Northern Pacific Railroad in the late 19th century. The decision of the railroad was influenced by Tacoma’s next to deep-water harbor, Commencement Bay. By connecting the bay as soon as the railroad, Tacoma’s motto became “When rails meet sails”. Commencement Bay serves the Port of Tacoma, a middle of international trade upon the Pacific Coast and Washington’s largest port. The city gained notoriety in 1940 for the collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which earned the nickname “Galloping Gertie”.

Like most industrial cities, Tacoma suffered a prolonged subside in the mid-20th century fittingly of suburbanization and divestment. Since the 1990s, downtown Tacoma has experienced a times of revitalization. Developments in the downtown include the University of Washington Tacoma; Line T (formerly Tacoma Link), the first radical electric light rail relieve in the state; the state’s highest density of art and history museums; and a restored urban waterfront, the Thea Foss Waterway.