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EspañolCONCORDIA COLLEGE (MINNESOTA)
(Redirected from Concordia College, Moorhead)
:''For other academic institutions named Concordia, see Concordia University (disambiguation).''
'Concordia College'
'Concordia College' in Moorhead, Minnesota is a private, four year liberal arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). It is famous for its Concordia Language Villages in Bemidji, Minnesota.
There are 24 departments includes 78 majors.
Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music degrees are offered.
In addition to the degrees offered, Concordia is home to a number of student-run organizations. These include The Concordian, the campus newspaper, Concordia On Air, the campus television show and KORD Radio, the campus radio station. Alongside these campus-wide organizations, there are multiple niche groups. If there is not currently a group for a certain interest, it is relatively easy to form one and join the student community.
Concordia College is a member of the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC). Cobber Athletics have a proud tradition claiming NCAA and NAIA national titles in football, swimming and diving, track and field, and basketball and the teams perenially compete at the national level with success. Sports offered include football, soccer, vollyeball, golf, cross country, hockey, basketball, wrestling, swimming, baseball, softball, and track and field. Concordia has also produced professional athletes as well as olympians. Gary Larsen and Barry Bennett has successful careers in the NFL, Chris Coste currently plays professional baseball and Kris Kruehl competed in the 2000 Olympics in the discus.
Former Cobber athlete and football coach, Jim Christopherson was inducted in the National Football Foundation's College Football Hall of Fame in 2007. Christopherson coached the Cobbers for 32 season from 1969-2000 and compiled a record of 218-101-7. He guided the Cobbers to two NAIA National Championships (1978 & 1981), and won 11 MIAC Conference Titles during his tenure. When Christopherson retired in 2000 he was third in wins among active NCAA Division III coaches. He was among an elite group of coaches who have coached for over 30 years at the same school. Christopherson, who played for the Minnesota Vikings for two seasons, is the first player or coach from Concordia College to receive the college's games highest honor. Christopherson coached 16 All-Americans during his time at Concordia College and produced over 120 athletes that were named to the MIAC All-Conference Team, including his son Reid.
Many departments including Math, History, Music, Business, Biology, French, Russian, Theatre, Sociology, Education and Family & Nutritional Sciences offer May Seminars. In providing the opportunity to travel abroad and visit locations of true scholarly importance, the May Seminar programs seek to bring students closer to the things they study in class. May seminars begin at the end of the spring semester and typically last four weeks.
The college is also renowned for its excellent Music Department and associated touring ensembles. The Concordia Choir, critically-acclaimed as ranking among the world's finest a cappella choirs, tours annually throughout the United States as well as abroad every few years. The college also maintains four other choirs, two concert bands, two full orchestras, two handbell choirs, and chamber and jazz ensembles. Rene Clausen is the conductor of the choir.
The college also presents a well-known Christmas Concert series performed before capacity audiences in Moorhead and at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis each December. The concert features the choirs, orchestra and handbell ensemble of Concordia staged before an impressive, unique mural reflecting the theme of each yearly concert.
★ Chris Coste - Major league baseball catcher and infielder.
★ David J. Hetland - Liturgical artist
★ Coya Knutson - U.S. Congresswoman
★ Morrie L. Lanning - former Moorhead, Minnesota Mayor & current Minnesota State House Representative
★ Ronald D. Offutt - CEO and founder of RDO Equipment Company and R.D. Offutt Agriculture, the largest potato grower in the world, and the current chairman of the Board of Reagents.
★ Richard L. Torgerson - President of Luther College (IA)
★ Richard Harrison Smith - choral composer and arranger, longtime conductor of the Jamestown College concert choir.
★ Gary Larsen - NFL defensive tackle - Purple People Eaters for the Minnesota Vikings
★ Rich Sommer - Actor - The Devil Wears Prada (film)
★ Kelby Krabbenhoft - President & CEO, Sanford Health
★ Jim Christopherson - Head Football Coach of the Concordia College Cobbers from 1969-2000. Christopherson was also a linebacker and placekicker for the Minnesota Vikings. Christopherson was recently inducted into the college football hall of fame with others such as Bobby Bowden (Coach, Florida State University) and Emmitt Smith (Running Back, University of Florida).
★ Ingebrikt F. Grose 1891-1893
★ Hans H. Aaker 1893-1902
★ Rasmus R. Bogstad 1902-1909
★ Henry O. Shurson 1909-1911
★ Johan A. Aasgaard 1911-1925
★ John N. Brown 1925-1951
★ Joseph L. Knutson 1951-1975
★ Paul J. Dovre 1975-1999
★ Thomas W. Thomsen 1999-2003
★ Paul J. Dovre 2003-04
★ Pamela Jolicoeur 2004-current
Students who are enrolled at North Dakota State University and Minnesota State University Moorhead can take classes at Concordia without going through additional admission procedures and paying extra costs.
★ First year students are given a bright yellow beanie hat during orientation upon arrival to campus and are supposed to wear them throughout their orientation week until the last day when everyone gathers on Olin Hill and throws them up into the air. This marks their official beginning of college. (Transfer students receive burgundy beanies and luckily don't have to wear them at all because their orientation is so short).
★ There is a long standing tradition of skinny dipping in Prexy's Pond after graduation. The most notorious occurrence of this happened on May 7th, 2007 when between 50 and 80 students were caught but not apprehended fleeing the pond unclothed/partially unclothed. No charges were filed for the swim but may still be filed regarding damage to a security guard's golf cart, which the seniors tossed into the pond. Rumors may have thrown this incident out of proportion; Different reports have said up to 200 students were skinny dipping while others have said that 20 to 50 were 'skivvy dipping' (in their underwear), and the golf cart rolled in on its own. [1]
★ The school's first building, Old Main, was originally surrounded by corn fields when Moorhead was still a mostly rural area. It seemed logical to the school's founders that Concordia's mascot should then be an ear of corn and that the students should be known as "Cobbers".
★ There is a sculpture by the regionally distinctive sculptor Paul Granlund in the library.
★ Concordia College is located next to Prairie Home Cemetery. Humorist Garrison Keillor derived the name of his popular radio show, A Prairie Home Companion from this cemetery.
★ The rivalry between students from Minnesota State University Moorhead, a neighboring campus, and Cobbers sometimes results in beanie-stealing attempts. Some attempts have gone so far as MSUM students even attending Cobber orientation posing as Cobber freshman in order to make friends with the new unknowing students. These students are then very surprised later on in the day when there is a knock on their dorm room door and their beanie is swiftly snatched from their head by their new found "friend" from orientation, who then runs outside and hops into a waiting getaway car. MSUM football players are the usual perpetrators and wear their stolen beanies as badges of honor. Freshman Cobber football players are supposed to wear their beanies up until they win their first football game, so depriving them of their beanies is considered a great prize. However, all Cobber freshman are potential targets.
★ The bell tower was finished in 1991 to celebrate the school's hundredth birthday.
★ The bell tower goes as deep into the ground as it does into the sky.
★ Students often walk around the bell tower rather than through it because of a superstition holding that Cobbers who walk through it alone will not get married, and Cobbers who walk as a pair will get married to each other.
★ The word "UFF-DA" can be found in the mosaic upon entering the Carl B. Ylvisaker Library.
★ A statue of former college president Joseph L. Knutson is referred to as "The Chocolate Man" and is a common meeting place for students.
★ There are also two large modern art granite statues on a round base between Old Main, the Knutson Center and Academy Hall that are referred to as "Ole and Lena," named for the famous Minnesotan-Norwegian couple whose misunderstandings and marital problems are known to jokers throughout the upper midwest.
★ The campus is said to hold the highest point (Olin Hill) and lowest point (Prexy's Pond) in Moorhead, MN.
★ Concordia means "Our hearts together" in Latin.
★ Concordia holds the only Lambda Delta Sigma chapter in the nation.
★ Polar explorer Roald Amundsen's teeth are housed in the Carl B Ylvisaker Library's Fourth Floor Archives. They were extracted by a Fargo dentist days before his disappearance. They were then donated to Concordia College.
1. Star Tribune article
★ Faith and reason: The history of Concordia College - Craig McEwen, ''The Forum,'' 11/28/1999
★ The Concordian This online edition of the student newspaper contains complete content from 1920 to spring 2006.
:''For other academic institutions named Concordia, see Concordia University (disambiguation).''
'Concordia College'
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| School type | Private |
|---|---|
| Mission | To influence the affairs of the world by sending into society thoughtful and informed men and women dedicated to the Christian life. |
| President | Dr. Pamela Jolicoeur |
| Faculty | 220 |
| Location | Moorhead, Minnesota, United States of America |
| Web site | www.cord.edu |
'Concordia College' in Moorhead, Minnesota is a private, four year liberal arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). It is famous for its Concordia Language Villages in Bemidji, Minnesota.
| Contents |
| Academics |
| Athletics |
| May Seminars |
| Music |
| Notable alumni |
| Past Presidents of Concordia College |
| Tri-College University |
| Traditions |
| Trivia |
| Notes |
| External links |
Academics
The new student center under construction as of October, 2006
Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Music degrees are offered.
In addition to the degrees offered, Concordia is home to a number of student-run organizations. These include The Concordian, the campus newspaper, Concordia On Air, the campus television show and KORD Radio, the campus radio station. Alongside these campus-wide organizations, there are multiple niche groups. If there is not currently a group for a certain interest, it is relatively easy to form one and join the student community.
Athletics
Concordia College is a member of the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (MIAC). Cobber Athletics have a proud tradition claiming NCAA and NAIA national titles in football, swimming and diving, track and field, and basketball and the teams perenially compete at the national level with success. Sports offered include football, soccer, vollyeball, golf, cross country, hockey, basketball, wrestling, swimming, baseball, softball, and track and field. Concordia has also produced professional athletes as well as olympians. Gary Larsen and Barry Bennett has successful careers in the NFL, Chris Coste currently plays professional baseball and Kris Kruehl competed in the 2000 Olympics in the discus.
Former Cobber athlete and football coach, Jim Christopherson was inducted in the National Football Foundation's College Football Hall of Fame in 2007. Christopherson coached the Cobbers for 32 season from 1969-2000 and compiled a record of 218-101-7. He guided the Cobbers to two NAIA National Championships (1978 & 1981), and won 11 MIAC Conference Titles during his tenure. When Christopherson retired in 2000 he was third in wins among active NCAA Division III coaches. He was among an elite group of coaches who have coached for over 30 years at the same school. Christopherson, who played for the Minnesota Vikings for two seasons, is the first player or coach from Concordia College to receive the college's games highest honor. Christopherson coached 16 All-Americans during his time at Concordia College and produced over 120 athletes that were named to the MIAC All-Conference Team, including his son Reid.
May Seminars
Many departments including Math, History, Music, Business, Biology, French, Russian, Theatre, Sociology, Education and Family & Nutritional Sciences offer May Seminars. In providing the opportunity to travel abroad and visit locations of true scholarly importance, the May Seminar programs seek to bring students closer to the things they study in class. May seminars begin at the end of the spring semester and typically last four weeks.
Music
The college is also renowned for its excellent Music Department and associated touring ensembles. The Concordia Choir, critically-acclaimed as ranking among the world's finest a cappella choirs, tours annually throughout the United States as well as abroad every few years. The college also maintains four other choirs, two concert bands, two full orchestras, two handbell choirs, and chamber and jazz ensembles. Rene Clausen is the conductor of the choir.
The college also presents a well-known Christmas Concert series performed before capacity audiences in Moorhead and at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis each December. The concert features the choirs, orchestra and handbell ensemble of Concordia staged before an impressive, unique mural reflecting the theme of each yearly concert.
Notable alumni
The bell tower, called Campanile
★ Chris Coste - Major league baseball catcher and infielder.
★ David J. Hetland - Liturgical artist
★ Coya Knutson - U.S. Congresswoman
★ Morrie L. Lanning - former Moorhead, Minnesota Mayor & current Minnesota State House Representative
★ Ronald D. Offutt - CEO and founder of RDO Equipment Company and R.D. Offutt Agriculture, the largest potato grower in the world, and the current chairman of the Board of Reagents.
★ Richard L. Torgerson - President of Luther College (IA)
★ Richard Harrison Smith - choral composer and arranger, longtime conductor of the Jamestown College concert choir.
★ Gary Larsen - NFL defensive tackle - Purple People Eaters for the Minnesota Vikings
★ Rich Sommer - Actor - The Devil Wears Prada (film)
★ Kelby Krabbenhoft - President & CEO, Sanford Health
★ Jim Christopherson - Head Football Coach of the Concordia College Cobbers from 1969-2000. Christopherson was also a linebacker and placekicker for the Minnesota Vikings. Christopherson was recently inducted into the college football hall of fame with others such as Bobby Bowden (Coach, Florida State University) and Emmitt Smith (Running Back, University of Florida).
Past Presidents of Concordia College
★ Ingebrikt F. Grose 1891-1893
★ Hans H. Aaker 1893-1902
★ Rasmus R. Bogstad 1902-1909
★ Henry O. Shurson 1909-1911
★ Johan A. Aasgaard 1911-1925
★ John N. Brown 1925-1951
★ Joseph L. Knutson 1951-1975
★ Paul J. Dovre 1975-1999
★ Thomas W. Thomsen 1999-2003
★ Paul J. Dovre 2003-04
★ Pamela Jolicoeur 2004-current
Tri-College University
Students who are enrolled at North Dakota State University and Minnesota State University Moorhead can take classes at Concordia without going through additional admission procedures and paying extra costs.
Traditions
★ First year students are given a bright yellow beanie hat during orientation upon arrival to campus and are supposed to wear them throughout their orientation week until the last day when everyone gathers on Olin Hill and throws them up into the air. This marks their official beginning of college. (Transfer students receive burgundy beanies and luckily don't have to wear them at all because their orientation is so short).
★ There is a long standing tradition of skinny dipping in Prexy's Pond after graduation. The most notorious occurrence of this happened on May 7th, 2007 when between 50 and 80 students were caught but not apprehended fleeing the pond unclothed/partially unclothed. No charges were filed for the swim but may still be filed regarding damage to a security guard's golf cart, which the seniors tossed into the pond. Rumors may have thrown this incident out of proportion; Different reports have said up to 200 students were skinny dipping while others have said that 20 to 50 were 'skivvy dipping' (in their underwear), and the golf cart rolled in on its own. [1]
Trivia
Old Main, Concordia's First Building, was built in 1906
★ The school's first building, Old Main, was originally surrounded by corn fields when Moorhead was still a mostly rural area. It seemed logical to the school's founders that Concordia's mascot should then be an ear of corn and that the students should be known as "Cobbers".
★ There is a sculpture by the regionally distinctive sculptor Paul Granlund in the library.
★ Concordia College is located next to Prairie Home Cemetery. Humorist Garrison Keillor derived the name of his popular radio show, A Prairie Home Companion from this cemetery.
★ The rivalry between students from Minnesota State University Moorhead, a neighboring campus, and Cobbers sometimes results in beanie-stealing attempts. Some attempts have gone so far as MSUM students even attending Cobber orientation posing as Cobber freshman in order to make friends with the new unknowing students. These students are then very surprised later on in the day when there is a knock on their dorm room door and their beanie is swiftly snatched from their head by their new found "friend" from orientation, who then runs outside and hops into a waiting getaway car. MSUM football players are the usual perpetrators and wear their stolen beanies as badges of honor. Freshman Cobber football players are supposed to wear their beanies up until they win their first football game, so depriving them of their beanies is considered a great prize. However, all Cobber freshman are potential targets.
★ The bell tower was finished in 1991 to celebrate the school's hundredth birthday.
★ The bell tower goes as deep into the ground as it does into the sky.
★ Students often walk around the bell tower rather than through it because of a superstition holding that Cobbers who walk through it alone will not get married, and Cobbers who walk as a pair will get married to each other.
★ The word "UFF-DA" can be found in the mosaic upon entering the Carl B. Ylvisaker Library.
★ A statue of former college president Joseph L. Knutson is referred to as "The Chocolate Man" and is a common meeting place for students.
★ There are also two large modern art granite statues on a round base between Old Main, the Knutson Center and Academy Hall that are referred to as "Ole and Lena," named for the famous Minnesotan-Norwegian couple whose misunderstandings and marital problems are known to jokers throughout the upper midwest.
★ The campus is said to hold the highest point (Olin Hill) and lowest point (Prexy's Pond) in Moorhead, MN.
★ Concordia means "Our hearts together" in Latin.
★ Concordia holds the only Lambda Delta Sigma chapter in the nation.
★ Polar explorer Roald Amundsen's teeth are housed in the Carl B Ylvisaker Library's Fourth Floor Archives. They were extracted by a Fargo dentist days before his disappearance. They were then donated to Concordia College.
Notes
1. Star Tribune article
External links
★ Faith and reason: The history of Concordia College - Craig McEwen, ''The Forum,'' 11/28/1999
★ The Concordian This online edition of the student newspaper contains complete content from 1920 to spring 2006.
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