The 2025 URSCA Symposium (previously known as COSS, Celebration of Student Scholars) was held on April 9th. The day consisted of students presenting speeches, panels, poster sessions, and art for their peers and staff to listen and ask questions about their expertise. This year, over 40 participants of all ages practiced their research and presentation…
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“Hurting Kids”: Michelle Lelwica calls for compassion, accountability and healing in the juvenile justice system
Creating the Visual Record: a written record of Symposium
Creating a visual world: a preview of Symposium
History is made while we are in the classroom
Disclaimer: I wrote this article on Friday, Sept. 28, one day after Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s hearing. I was angry, sad, frustrated, disappointed and probably any other negative adjective you can think of. I still am all of those things, but on that day, as you can imagine, the feelings were rather fresh. You pick…
‘Why Gender Matters’ symposium to promote constructive dialogue
In the midst of the 2016 United States Presidential election, our nation was given the first real look at a qualified woman being seriously considered for presidential office. As we obviously know now, she was not elected. Was it her credentials, her background, or the fact that she was a woman that lost her the…
Letter to the Editor: Danny Kocher
This year’s symposium took countless hours from countless faculty, staff, students, and guests to set up and run, but it only took one issue of the Concordian to ignore its effect. I was somewhat shocked when I picked up the September 29th issue of the Concordian and at first glance saw no mention of the…
Concordia first ‘fully integrated’ partner of Narrative 4 organization
“My name is Mahmoud,” Brayden Drevlow said. Drevlow, who is in his second year at Concordia, is a pianist, a leader of the campus conservative group and white. Mahmoud Toumeh is Syrian. He is a graduate student at NDSU, and he lost his grandfather and close friend in two violent government attacks. Drevlow and Toumeh…
America and the Middle West
After another successful Faith, Reason and World Affairs Symposium, the planning committee announced today that next year’s event will focus on America and the Middle West. Sonja Wentling, Symposium planning committee co-chair, says she is very excited for the expansive amount of information next year’s theme will offer. “Our goal is to get students excited…
“The Butterfly Mosque” to be upcoming summer read
This summer, hundreds of incoming freshmen will read the memoir of a young American woman and hear her questions about faith, following her brave journey to Egypt, where she decided to teach after college. “Doesn’t that sound like a Cobber?” said Dr. Dawn Duncan, English professor and chair of the Summer Book Read Committee. Duncan…