By Magazine Editorial Team
Posted on 9/1/2019 - 3 minute read
I rarely get butterflies before singing in front of people, but standing below the platform at the U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with a team of singers and musicians from Concordia Irvine and elsewhere, my stomach buzzed with nerves. Then, a voice came through our in-ear monitors. “Go! You guys are up.”
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By Magazine Editorial Team
Posted on 9/1/2019 - 8 minute read
Associate professor Russell Mangum is also a full-time economist, giving expert testimony in high-profile cases of intellectual property infringement and anti-trust litigation for clients and companies as diverse as Microsoft, Monster Energy, Chipotle and Chicken of the Sea.
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By Magazine Editorial Team
Posted on 7/1/2019 - 5 minute read
The Evelyn and Raymond Joeckel family has supported Concordia University Irvine and many Lutheran churches and ministries for nearly seven decades, even while raising a family of seven and moving frequently as part of the oil industry.
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By Magazine Editorial Team
Posted on 7/1/2019 - 6 minute read
Kaylie Housewright joined the first Townsend Institute cohort while starting an international nonprofit to support women who are victims of sex trafficking. That meant waking up at 6 a.m. Thailand time for her “evening” class, and persevering through daily thunderstorms and iffy Internet connections.
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By Magazine Editorial Team
Posted on 3/1/2019 - 2 minute read
Concordia University Irvine's debate team has done it again, placing second nationwide at the 2019 National Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA) Championship Tournament. It is the seventh time in eight years they have finished in the top five among all universities, and their run includes two first-place finishes and four second-place finishes. The Eagles are the only squad in the country to place a team in the quarterfinals or higher at nationals for the last five years in a row.
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By Magazine Editorial Team
Posted on 3/1/2019 - 1 minute read
The Chronicle of Higher Education recently highlighted CUI’s Q&I curriculum in a special 2018 publication titled Reforming Gen Ed: Strategies for success on your campus. The two-page institutional profile of Concordia was headlined, “A liberal-arts college sees student engagement increase with the creation of common-core courses.”
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By Magazine Editorial Team
Posted on 3/1/2019 - 4 minute read
Christian Ramirez rediscovered his love for soccer at Concordia and launched into a professional playing career.
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By Magazine Editorial Team
Posted on 3/1/2019 - 2 minute read
Concordia University Irvine’s theatre program has enjoyed annual success in the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, and this year was no different as the show I and You was selected to appear in full production.
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By Magazine Editorial Team
Posted on 3/1/2019 - 6 minute read
CUI revamped its undergraduate curriculum and refocused general education classes on life’s enduring questions, giving leadership in the national conversation on innovating higher education.
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By Magazine Editorial Team
Posted on 3/1/2019 - 3 minute read
I do a lot of work with Rio Grande Valley Mission Action Council (RioMAC), a collaboration of twelve Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod churches in the Rio Grande Valley which focuses on unity within our circuit, within our individual congregations and within our communities. We also engage in outreach, specifically to those who do not know how incredibly loved they are by Jesus. Our outreach efforts have placed us in some very unlikely places and situations, which make for interesting ministry stories
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