Concordia students are collaborating with the Fargo Moorhead Pride Collective and Community Center to put on a “Take Pride in Your Health Day” event this Saturday. The event aims to promote health education for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) individuals and their allies in the community. It will feature various health-related events including…
Press Release This semester a group of Concordia students became filmmakers. For the Film & Literature Core Capstone taught by English professor Dawn Duncan, juniors and seniors were tasked with the responsibility to create a 12-20 minute film adapted from literature. Three groups of seven or eight members created three short films, including a sci-fi…
Over 50 Concordia students and faculty attended the AWP conference in Minneapolis last weekend along with numerous English alum, as Concordia was the premier sponsor. Editor, author and Concordia Professor Scott Olsen said Concordia discovered two years ago that the conference was coming to Minneapolis. He said we had a choice: the college could have…
Anand Gopal shares the stories of three Afghans – a Taliban commander, a US-backed warlord, and a village housewife in his book No Good Men Among the Living: America, The Taliban and the War through Afghan Eyes. In his book, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, Gopal shares the stories of people…
Concordia pastor Timothy Megorden recently announced his plans to retire by September 2015. When Megorden accepted the position of campus pastor in 2007, he vowed that he would retire in four years. “It’s been eight years because it’s really been good,” he said. Megorden graduated from Concordia in 1969 with a sociology major and philosophy…
Offutt School of Business Dean moving to job at bigger school next year Six and a half years ago, Concordia hoped to elevate its business program while keeping it steeped in the liberal arts. Mark Krejci, who was then vice-president of academic affairs and dean of the college, hired Greg Cant to be the founding…
A grassroots organization has sprung up on Concordia’s campus that welcomes faculty and staff who share a desire for a community free of sexual violence. The group, founded by faculty members Laurie Dahley, Susan Larson and Elna Solvang, refers to itself as Employees Against Rape or Employees Advocating Respectful Sexual Situations (EAR). “To change a…
Lower 2015-2016 budget a result of estimated lower enrollment numbers Like numerous colleges around the country, Concordia faces challenges in preparing its budget for the 2015-2016 fiscal year. Concordia faces $5.6 million in decisions for the upcoming fiscal year that runs from May 1, 2015 to April 30, 2016. This number is the result of a $3.8…
Faculty Senate announces other initiatives Greg Cant, Dean of the Offutt School of Business, has accepted a new position in New Jersey, and he and his wife Angela, associate director for study away, will not be returning to Concordia for the 2015-2016 academic year. This was one of several announcements made at Monday’s faculty senate…
Initial fears that student worker’s hours could have been reduced largely did not pan out While Concordia work-study wages increased last August with the state’s minimum wage increase to $8 an hour for large employers – those making more than $500,000 in annual revenues – Concordia’s budget did not. Initial concerns arose on campus that…