After a grueling Winter, the CobBikes have finally returned to their rack, and they will stay there for the rest of the semester – rain, shine or even snow. Dr. Ken Foster, chair of Concordia’s Sustainability Council, and Kim Haley, a Sustainability intern, said they have some plans in mind for the popular set of…
Before the adventure, the host families, the bus rides or the plane trip, many Concordia students must organize and plan for their study abroad classes. Each student approaches this differently. Some plan as much as possible beforehand; others take the trip as it comes and change their schedule as they go along. The process of…
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…
The most important news in higher education this week comes out of rural Virginia. Sweet Briar College, a historic women’s college, announced it would close over the summer. Liberal arts colleges across the country are stunned. I have no personal connection to Sweet Briar, but I feel compelled to review this story. Students across the…
HILT visits California, D.C. This year, two High Impact Leadership trips set off to their destinations over spring break. One trip went to Washington D.C. to learn about environmental policy, while the other went to California to learn about sustainable agriculture and organic farming. Both groups came back filled with knowledge, ready to implement change…
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…
Matt Dymoke, a 2014 Concordia graduate, was recently nominated for Teacher of the Year in the White Bear Lake school district after only being in the classroom for six months. The social studies education major, organizational communication minor was nominated by three students who had the option to nominate any teachers in the district. Dymoke,…
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…
Concordia partnered with the It’s On Us campaign to organize a discussion about sexual assault awareness. Over 100 students gathered in the Centrum on Monday, Feb. 9, at 7 p.m. to participate. According to itsonus.org, the It’s On Us campaign’s mission is “to recognize that non-consensual sex is sexual assault; to identify situations in which…
“It’s band time!” Each week members of the Concordia Band hear their director Dr. Peter Haberman shout this phrase before rehearsal. But during the week of Feb. 2-6, there was extra excitement with this exclamation because the band was on tour in Washington state. The Concordia Band goes on tour annually during the first week…