Concordia University in Seward, Nebraska is a university of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod's Concordia University System. The school began as Concordia Teachers College on November 18, 1894 consisting of one professor and 12 pre-seminary students. The students, president, and the president's family lived in the same building, today known as Founders Hall. The top floor housed the student dormitories; the second held the classrooms and the president's residence. During this time the president's wife was responsible for all the student's laundry, as well as caring for them when they were ill. The school is currently a fully accredited university with two colleges, dozens of majors, and over 1200 undergraduate and graduate students. Students seeking a degree in church work (pre-seminary, teachers, directors of Christian education, parish music) comprise a large percentage of the overall student body. Seward is a city located in Seward County, Nebraska. ... Representation of a university class, 1350s. ... The Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (LCMS) is the second-largest Lutheran body in the United States. ... The Concordia University System is a organization of ten colleges and universities throughout the United States operated by the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod. ... November 18 is the 322nd day of the year (323rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar with 43 days remaining. ... 1894 (MDCCCXCIV) was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...
The ConcordiaUniversity System (CUS) is an organization of ten colleges and universities throughout the United States operated by the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod.
ConcordiaUniversity College of Alberta was founded by the LCMS, but it is owned by Lutheran Church - Canada, and is affiliated with the University of Alberta.
Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota is associated with the ELCA, and ConcordiaUniversity in Montreal has roots in the Jesuits and YMCA; neither is associated with the Concordia System.
ConcordiaUniversity is a large urban university in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, one of Montreal's two universities that teach primarily in the English language (the other is McGill University).
Hillel Concordia and the university later decried what they said as an attack on freedom of speech, and the university instituted additional measures afterward to deal with the situation, including the banning of events related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as well as enabling new student disciplinary rules to be used in case of emergency.
Concordia last won a national championship in 1999, when the women's hockey team beat the University of Alberta in the final game of the season.