LCMS Convention Workbook St. Louis, Missouri — 2013, Page 93

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SYNOD REPORTS
liberal arts and professional studies for lives of learning, service, and
leadership.” Acknowledging that all good things come from our gracious God, we note the following accomplishments since the last
Synod convention.
• Concordia University (CUI) is the fifteenth fastest-growing private Master’s Degree-granting university in the US, according to
the Chronicle of Higher Education.
• Concordia’s enrollment grew from 2,500 in 2009 to 3,500 in 2012.
• Concordia added the following academic programs:
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BA in Economics
BA in Graphic Design
BA in Health Care Management
BA in Organizational Psychology
BA in History & Political Thought
BS in Athletic Training
RN-to-BSN program in Nursing
MA in Educational Specialist with an emphasis in Mild/Moderate
Disorders
MA in School Counseling, including a Pupil and Personnel Services
credential
MA in Educational Technology
MA in International Studies with an emphasis in International
Development
Minor in Global Cultural Studies

• CUI will offer its first doctoral program, a Doctor of Education
(Ed.D.) in Educational Leadership, in 2013.
• Concordia expanded the reach of its Master’s Degree programs
in Education throughout California, offering face-to-face instruction at eight regional centers—including two in the San Francisco
Bay area—and in over 30 off-campus sites to over 700 students
annually.
• A core curriculum was implemented as part of its general education for all undergraduates. This innovative curriculum, which
combines study of great works with emphases on interdisciplinary
study, critical thinking, intensive writing and global awareness, has
been praised by both the American Council of Trustees and Alumni
(ACTA) and the Association for Core Texts and Colleges (ACTC).
• The Office of Global Programs was established to provide stronger
support for mission trips, study-abroad experiences, and international students attending the university.
• In Fall 2010 and again in Fall 2012, CUI offered its groundbreaking Around-The-World Semester®, in which two faculty and two
staff led approximately 25 students on an 18-week study tour that
literally circumnavigated the globe, earning a semester’s worth
of college credit and engaging in mission and service projects on
four continents. During the Fall 2012 semester, students studied,
served, and witnessed to the Gospel in Mongolia, China, Vietnam,
Thailand, India, Ethiopia, Austria, Hungary, Bolivia, and Peru.
• In 2010, Concordia completed and began implementing a strategic
plan with four main emphases: (1) strengthening academic rigor;
(2) communicating institutional identity; (3) enhancing the student
experience; and (4) improving institutional operations and finances.
In 2012, with many of the original initiatives accomplished, the university updated its strategic plan, adding an emphasis on expanding
graduate, adult, and online education.
• Concordia’s Theatre Department continues to receive accolades
from the Kennedy Center/American College Theatre Festival. The
department’s 2010 production of The Cover of Life was invited to
KC/ACTF’s annual regional festival, as were scenes from Hamlet
(2010) and Beau Jest (2012). In 2012, the department launched
Looseleaf Theatre Company, in which local professional actors perform alongside Concordia students, faculty, staff, and alumni. Its

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production of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night was enjoyed by nearly
1,500 people.
• Concordia’s forensics program has achieved national prominence in
speech and debate competitions in the last three years. Since 2010,
the team has placed first or second at numerous national tournaments, competing successfully against schools such as Texas Tech,
Oregon, and the University of California-Berkeley.
• CUI’s athletic programs, competing in NAIA Division I, have
enjoyed unprecedented success in the last three years. Our baseball team won its first national championship in Spring 2011; our
men’s basketball team won its second national championship in
Spring 2012 (the first was in 2003); our women’s volleyball team
posted a perfect 38-0 record in Fall 2012 and won its first national
championship, after going 37-2 and reaching the national title game
in 2011.
• Concordia hosted its first-ever Teen Entrepreneur Academy, which
drew 40 high school students from Asia and the United States to
learn more about starting their own businesses while incorporating biblical principles in their business plans.
• Concordia is engaged in a campus master planning process. The
new master plan will help determine construction priorities for
building out the Irvine campus to capacity. Anticipated future campus additions include a science and nursing building, performing
arts space, a residence hall, expanded student union space, and an
aquatics center.
• The Center for Public Policy was established to provide a venue for
bipartisan discussions of critical issues affecting those who live in
Orange County and California.
• CUI continues to strengthen its financial position. The university recently refinanced its debt and secured favorable financing
for a five-year term, paying down debt to approximately 20 percent. Unrestricted net assets grew by 52 percent in the last several
years, and Concordia achieved the maximum U.S. Department of
Education financial composite score of 3.0.
• Last May, Concordia’s annual Gala of Stars netted $550,000 for
student scholarships. During the Gala, Concordia presented its
Lifetime Achievement Award to Louis Zamperini, Olympic champion, WWII prisoner of war, and subject of the best-selling book,
Unbroken.
• On July 1, 2010, Dr. Kurt Krueger began his service as the
University’s fourth president.
Concordia University Wisconsin, Mequon, WI
Patrick T. Ferry, President
Concordia University Wisconsin, founded in 1881 on Milwaukee’s
near west side in the basement of historic Trinity Lutheran Church,
has always espoused the integration of Christian faith and higher
learning in the classroom. The University’s mission statement, in part,
aspires to “help students develop in mind, body, and spirit for service
to Christ in the Church and the world.”
With that in mind, listed below in no particular order are some of
the wonderful accomplishments at CUW over the past 30 months.
• In early summer of 2010, a groundbreaking ceremony was held for
the $15 million School of Pharmacy, making CUW only the second university in Wisconsin to offer a Doctor of Pharmacy degree.
The focus of the pharmacy school is to prepare pharmacists as practitioners for rural and urban Wisconsin. On September 16, 2011,
the building was officially dedicated.
• In September 2011, a new Accelerated Learning Center opened
in Waukesha, bringing to four the number of such centers in the
metro-Milwaukee area; the other three being Mequon, Midtown,
and Miller Park Way.
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