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High tunnel greenhouse: Solution for short growing season
Construction has started on a solar high tunnel greenhouse, which will extend the growing season long enough for classrooms to be involved with Concordia’s garden project, according to Ken Foster, the chair of President William Craft’s sustainability council. “The main purpose [of the tunnel] is to provide educational opportunities for students,” Foster said. “There is…
Enrollment 2015: Decline continues, departments adapt
According to the student census report released on Sept. 10, located on Concordia’s Institutional Effectiveness page, the number of fulltime students at Concordia has dropped by 207 since last year – from 2,332 students to 2,125 students. The number of fulltime students at Concordia follows a two -year downward trend, but is expected to stabilize…
Budget plans, students absent
As administrators give details to faculty and staff, students left in the dark Faculty and staff streamed into the Centrum Wednesday afternoon with only one goal in mind: Find out the budget plans for next year. But as the clock struck 4 p.m. and the last of the faculty and staff walked into the packed…
‘I feel like I am the token minority’
Students of color feel singled out on campus Imagine going to a college where you are the minority. When sensitive societal and cultural aspects of your race are brought up in class, some people may expect you to speak for the race you represent. You are afraid to speak up. This scenario is similar to…
Q&A with National Book Award finalist Anand Gopal
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…
Gray, Lillehaugen to Lillehammer
2015 Peace Scholars will represent Concordia in Norway; first time overseas for both Peace Scholars will learn logistics of peace across the globe. President Craft declared Alex Gray and Matthew Lillehaugen as Concordia’s 2015 Peace Scholars on February 20, 2015; these two students have already begun to fulfill their title only a couple weeks after…
Reading the readers
Concordia changes news media outlets Newspapers in dorms? Gone. The New York Times in Knutson? Gone. USA Today? Gone. So where have Concordia’s print newspapers gone? The web. The Concordia community now has access to online newspaper subscriptions of The New York Times and The Washington Post. Physical copies of The Star Tribune and The…
Cant won’t stop at Concordia
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…
Cornstock 2015
What does it take? Two years ago, a large crowd of students gathered in the atrium awaiting an announcement. Campus Entertainment Commission members stood above the students and unfurled a banner revealing the headliner of Cornstock. When students saw Karmin would be the headliner of Cornstock 2013, there was clapping, but there were also whisperings…