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From the President – Summer 2024
President Michael Thomas discusses Vision 2025, a building initiative to enhance Concordia University Irvine’s Turtle Rock campus, including renovations to the CU Center and new…
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From The President – Spring 2024
Concordia Magazine emphasizes Concordia University Irvine’s commitment to shaping students into wise, honorable, and cultivated citizens who serve society and the church. Readers are invited…
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From The President – Fall 2023
Dr. Michael Thomas introduces Alum Lilly Niccum ̓2, discussing how Concordia’s value of higher education set her up for success and how Concordia helps students…
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‘Lamb of Sacrifice’ – A Theological Reflection by Rev. Dr. Robert Kolb
n my first year of preaching, Good Shepherd Sunday gave me the occasion to use a bit of information that I had picked up from…
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‘It is Finished’ A Theological Reflection
The words “it is finished” may be uttered as a postlude, a sigh, a song of relief that the suffering has come to an end,…
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‘Broken for Our Brokenness’ – A Theological Reflection by Rev. Dr. Robert Kolb
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall (trying to climb to new heights, where no Dumpty had ever gone before, despite the “no sitting on this…
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Leaders Must Take and Support Risks
n our schools there are managers and there are leaders. For our students in our most struggling schools we need leaders.
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Indicators of School Leadership Success
How do we know that school leaders are successful? Improving test scores are the most obvious indicators of school leadership success.
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How to Balance Equity, Equality, and Fairness
have been a part of multiple conversations [chats/tweets/Voxer groups] discussing fair versus equitable versus equal.
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How Should Principals Spend Their Time?
The best research study I’ve read about principals’ actual use of time during the day was produced by Horng, Klasik, and Loeb in 2010.
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Zhang Family Creates $1 Million Challenge Grant
Charlie Zhang emigrated to the U.S. from China nearly forty years ago and pursued the American dream by starting a business. That business, the restaurant…
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Mural-painting Student Beautifies Public Spaces
Senior Miles Gunnett of Ramona, a city in San Diego County, has become a burgeoning mural artist while at Concordia, and his work is featured…
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Living and Learning Through Civil Dialogue
There’s a residential hall on Concordia’s campus where discussions about hot-button topics are not just welcomed but expected – as long as they’re conducted with…
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Fostering a Sense of Belonging in Christian Higher Education
Recent research highlights the importance of developing a strong sense of belonging to enhance and improve student educational outcomes (Patrick et al., 2023).
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Empowering Young Mothers
Currently, there exists a gap in which pregnant and teen mothers are not equally or equitably served through support in public schools when looking at…
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Embracing Change: Creating a New Normal
Due to COVID-19, we have been thrust into a world of online learning, remote working, and socially distanced living. As I write this, I sit…