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By Magazine Editorial Team Posted on 3/22/2021 - 8 minute read
When the opportunity came to name rooms in the newly-built Borland-Manske Center, retired Los Angeles City firefighter Mark Howell and his wife Lauri chose to honor numerous people who contributed to their faith and love of music.
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By Magazine Editorial Team Posted on 3/22/2021 - 13 minute read
Concordia University Irvine has completed a comprehensive fundraising campaign, raising over $100 million for student scholarships, campus improvements, athletics, the endowment, and academic program support of all kinds. It represents a major milestone in the University’s history — and an achievement which defied most expectations.
By Magazine Editorial Team Posted on 7/12/2017 - 1 minute read
Following several years of record enrollment, the university expanded to new facilities. The new Concordia University Irvine Spectrum Campus houses the offices of the School of Professional Studies—Adult Degree Programs, M.A. International Studies, and the Masters in Coaching and Athletic Administration (MCAA). The new space allows for additional growth and assures outstanding service for many years to come. The Park Place campus houses Concordia’s Nursing programs. Concordia also has regional graduate program cohorts in Los Angeles, Riverside, Orange, and San Diego counties, as well as Northern California.
By Magazine Editorial Team Posted on 7/1/2017 - 3 minute read
As the Music, Worship and Theology (MWT) building — the first major project in CUI’s master plan—moves closer to reality, the campus community will have many people to thank: the staff and faculty who are leading the efforts and informing the process; the students, whose eagerness and numbers show a continued, rising demand for a Concordia University Irvine education; and the many friends of Concordia for their faithful support.
Posted on 7/13/2016 - 1 minute read
Our Strategic Plan Update is comprised of four themes with 11 strategic priorities. The four themes—academic enterprise, student experience, institutional identity and institutional operations—provide the framework that guides our efforts to improve academic quality and service to students, to strengthen our financial position and to communicate more effectively what it means to be a Lutheran university.
By Ann Ashmon Posted on 11/1/2015 - 5 minute read
Ryan ’97 and Lyndsay (Kahler ’96) Ermeling met in the choir at Concordia University Irvine. Two years after graduating, they started the Ein Feste Burg Choral Scholarship to support the choral department and students with financial need. In the years following, Ryan’s start-up business moved from his garage to an office building in Phoenix where he now has 20 employees and a business that has enjoyed double-digit growth for the past 12 years.
Posted on 3/1/2015 - 3 minute read
When Donald Lahn was 16 years old, his father was hit by a truck and killed while crossing the street in a small Colorado town. The loss left Lahn without support at a critical time.
By Ann Ashmon Posted on 11/1/2014 - 5 minute read
In the 1970s, Kelly and Cheryl Keithly heard a pioneering educator named Charles Manske, Concordia’s founding president, speak at their church about the vision for a Lutheran university in Southern California. His presentation inspired the young couple.