Concordia Senior College was a liberal arts college located in Fort Wayne, Indiana and affiliated with the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS). It was founded in 1953 and closed in 1977. A liberal arts college is an institution of higher education found in the United States, offering programs in the liberal arts at the post-secondary level. ... Nickname: Motto: Room for Dreams Location in the state of Indiana, USA Coordinates: , Country United States State Indiana County Allen French settlement 1680s Founding October 22, 1794 Incorporated (town) 1829 Incorporated (city) February 22, 1840 Founder Jean François Hamtramck Named for Gen. ... For other uses, see Indiana (disambiguation). ... The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS), founded in 1847 in Missouri, is the eighth largest Protestant denomination in the United States, and the second-largest Lutheran body in the U.S. after the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. ... Year 1953 (MCMLIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1977 (album) by Ash. ...

The senior college was a new type of institution; it provided future pastors with training before they attended a seminary, during their 3rd and 4th undergraduate years of college. Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Luther Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Archbishop of Canterbury · Catholic Pope Coptic Pope · Ecumenical Patriarch Christianity Portal This box:      A pastor is an... For the Ecuadorian artist, see Manuel Rendón Seminario. ... In some educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelors degree. ...

Concordia Senior College was by-and-large an all-men's institution with no female faculty, but there were a small number of female students who were housed in their own dormitory. A men’s college is a college or university whose students are exclusively men. ... The meaning of the word professor (Latin: [1]) varies. ... A typical American college dorm room Another typical not-so-clean college dorm room Watterson Towers, Illinois State University Potomac Hall, second-largest dormitory at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. ...

Concordia went out of existence in 1977 when its function was transferred to the regular Missouri Synod colleges, the Concordia University System. Today those colleges are responsible for much of the undergraduate training of future LCMS pastors. The campus was transferred to the Concordia Theological Seminary. The Concordia University System is a organization of ten colleges and universities throughout the United States operated by the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod. ... The Concordia Theological Seminary is an institution of theological higher education of The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod, located in Fort Wayne, Indiana, dedicated primarily to the preparation of pastors for the congregations and missions of the LCMS (and, when appropriate, of its partner churches). ...

External links

• Saarinen's Village: The Concordia Campus Through Time