# LCMS Convention Workbook_St. Louis Missouri_2013_S97
# Machine transcription, uncorrected — CHI Digital Archive (demonstration)

SYNOD REPORTS
• Football and soccer players cleaned up the neighborhood at a local
housing project during the Fall of 2012.
• CCA, partnering with Wheat Ridge Ministries, launched its first
health and wellness program (ConcordiaCares) for faculty and staff
on campus in 2012.
Concordia University, Nebraska, Seward, NE
Brian Friedrich, President
Mission: “Concordia University, Nebraska is an excellent academic and Christ-centered community equipping men and women
for lives of learning, service, and leadership in the church and world.”
Vision: “By 2015 Concordia University, Nebraska will grow and
expand its influence to diverse populations by fostering collaboration
and adapting to our changing environment while remaining faithful
to our mission of excellent Christian education.”
• Concordia University, Nebraska (CUNE) served more than 2,000
students each of the past three years and recorded the largest enrollment in its 118-year history in 2011, marking the fifth year in a row
Concordia has seen an increase.
• Concordia was the highest ranked of all schools in the Concordia
University System by U.S. News & World Report.
• Concordia conferred the largest number of graduate degrees, 116,
in its history during commencement in May 2011.
• The first class of MBA students graduated in 2011.
• The College of Graduate Studies and Adult Education expanded
its offerings of fully online degree programs to include a Master
of Human Services and a Master of Public Health, and expanded
its degree completion program to include a B.A. in Professional
Studies.
• The university expanded graduate education offerings to include
endorsements in early childhood education and special education,
and early childhood and secondary graduate teacher certification.
• Concordia expanded the following majors and programs: environmental science, art therapy, Mandarin, B.S. in physics, Christian
educational leadership, and a Christian Teacher diploma.
• Concordia expanded the following majors and programs: environmental science, art therapy; BS in Physics, Christian educational
leadership, and a Christian Teacher diploma, Mandarin.
• The University expanded the degree completion program to include
an RN to BSN.
• Concordia introduced the Concordia Graduation Commitment, a
program to help students graduate within four years or on a timeline they help set.
• An increase in participation by students who play string, woodwind, brass, and percussion instruments led to the formation of the
University Chamber Orchestra. Concordia has had smaller string
ensembles in recent years, but it has been nearly 30 years since
there’s been an orchestra.
• Concordia Nebraska continues to hold the highest number of NAIA
Scholar-Athletes in the country all-time.
• In honor of President Emeritus Orville C. Walz, the Health, Human
Performance, and Athletic Center was renamed the Walz Human
Performance Complex in 2011.
• The Janzow Campus Center underwent a $1 million renovation
in 2012, which included the addition of a grill-style dining area,
named the Dog House Grill.
• Renovations to the PE Building completed in 2012 included the
addition of a wrestling practice facility created by filling in the old
swimming pool, as well as updated locker rooms and weight room,
areas for athletic equipment and athletic training, and new space
for classrooms and offices.

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• A survey of CUNE graduates found a 96 percent job placement rate
six months after graduation.
• As of Jan. 1, 2013, through the Blessed to be a Blessing campaign,
more than $27.7 million has been secured through cash, pledges,
and deferred gifts to support endowment, capital projects, scholarships, and operations.
• As of Jan. 1, 2013, the university’s total endowment was $38.3
million.
• Concordia invested approximately $10.5 million in the renovation
and enhancement of 59 capital and technology projects campus
wide.
• CUNE established a $20,000 rural health leadership endowment to
help identify and nourish new leaders to address community health
issues in rural areas.
• The women’s cross country team finished in the top 20 at the NAIA
National Championships in 18 of the past 19 seasons following its
15th-place finish at the 2012 Outdoor Championships.
• Phi Epsilon Kappa, a health and human performance honor society, was established at Concordia Nebraska.
• The Center for Liturgical Arts at Concordia has continued to produce art and furnishings for churches in cities all over the country,
including Indianapolis, IN, Ft. Meyers, FL; Madison, CT; Ankeny,
IA; Arlington Heights, IL; and Omaha, NE; as well as creating and
installing a nine-foot stained glass window for The Lutheran Center
in Baltimore, MD.
• Concordia University, Nebraska, along with St. John Lutheran
Church, co-hosted a national LCMS worship conference in July
2011, bringing to Seward the President of the LCMS, Rev. Matthew
C. Harrison, as one of its presenters.
Concordia University Education Network (CUEnet), Bend,
OR—Ray Halm, Senior Director
On behalf of the Concordia University System, Concordia
University Education Network (CUEnet) provides an online colloquy program to public university graduates serving as teachers or
other workers in Lutheran schools and congregations. This program
provides the theological training necessary for such personnel to be
called as a commissioned minister in the LCMS. Over 1,800 students have applied to the online colloquy program since the program’s
launch in 2001. To date (December 2012), over 1,000 of those have
completed the program and have received their first call.
• CUEnet continues to gather significant grants and donations for colloquy scholarships and collaborative projects. From 2010 to 2012
(December), over $730,000 was raised through the generosity of
individual donors and foundations.
• CUEnet has taken significant steps toward a more flexible and
responsive solution for streaming video in order to address a growing demand for access to colloquy material on mobile devices.
CUEnet will be utilizing a media server platform which allows
both on-demand and live streaming of H.264 video to any device
and operating system, including iOS and Android.
• CUEnet has upgraded its equipment for high-definition filming. It
has also significantly improved audio capture in its studio and has
added green screen technology to its techniques in video recording.
• CUEnet has finished work with a significant donor foundation and
Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort Wayne, on a multimedia
confirmation program called Images of Faith. These confirmation
program materials are intended to supplement a church’s existing
confirmation program or to stand alone as a confirmation curriculum. Distribution of this curriculum material will commence in
the summer of 2013. It will be available to any congregation which
requests it, free of charge.
2013 Convention Workbook