thanks to bequests.
The profs love every doctrine, except Luther's.
The Shrinkers snuffed out Northwestern College in the name of saving money. Now Martin Luther College is going down. The Watertown campus began as the seminary, evolved into the college and prep school, and now exists as Luther Prep - after absorbing the Shrinker experiment at Prairie du Chien, now a prison.
GJ - This just in - the WELS synodical schools are in serious financial shape.
Michigan Lutheran Seminary is the worst, bled dry by the Gurgle-Mueller dynasty, their recruitment based on "No, we are not going to close next year." An auto-based economy does not help the district, nor does the location of the school.
Ex-SP Gurgle, who is now the campaign manager for Kudu Don Patterson in Texas, blew $30 million on closing Northwestern College, spiffing up Dr. Martin Luther College a bit (removing the "Dr."), and giving away the Prairie campus.
The Watertown campus got a facelift. Some say that the old Toppe regime made it look like a WWII barracks, but no one said it was going to close in those days. Northwestern College in Watertown had a unique identity in being focused on getting men ready to become seminary students. Merging with DMLC, based on a host of lies, was like getting a big shot of estrogen. The coursework was feminazified, languages weakened, and Church Growth fanned into flames. The Watertown profs did not like CG, but MLC is hotter than Georgia asphalt for it.
Can college students get jobs in New Ulm? That was another great move. How do they afford a $60,000 education with no jobs?
Most likely:
1. Michigan Lutheran Seminary will close.
2. Luther Prep will close.
3. Martin Luther College will close.
Meanwhile, millions are spent on weak world missionary efforts scattered around the globe, to make WELS look international. The same visionaries shut down their original efforts among the Apaches. That's right - in the name of saving money.
Plus - WELS has blown $500,000 or so on The CORE, with no discipline for the miscreants involved.
I expect another version of The CORE to erupt soon, since WELS learns nothing from experience.
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bruce-church (https://bruce-church.myopenid.com/) has left a new comment on your post "WELS Schools in Serious Trouble":
You wrote: "This just in - the WELS synodical schools are in serious financial shape."
How solid is this information? What constitutes "serious"? "Serious" is relative, just as a recession is when my neighbor gets laid off, and a depression is when I'm laid off.
MLS is so small, I don't think it could withstand another layoff. I could imagine mass lay-offs at Luther Prep and MLC, but closing either one seems far-fetched.
New Ulm is being helped out by the Schroeder stimulus program--building the new chapel. I think the MLC chapel dedication is still on for Apr 10+11:
http://www.mlc-wels.edu/home/about/webcams/chapup20100223/
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GJ - I should tell you my sources to prove how solid? Solid. And it all makes sense. The new pledges were lower than last year's. Idiots run the government, pressing for a $1 trillion dollar program when layoffs continue. I see another drop coming, a W recesssion, they call it.
It's a bad sign when WELS adds a building to a campus.
