Concordia College Alabama to close at end of spring semester | The Selma Times‑Journal

 Concordia College, LCMS in Selma, Alabama
is scheduled to close.
"Lyons said the school needed a minimum investment of $8 million to pay off its debt and keep the doors open."

Concordia College Alabama to close at end of spring semester | The Selma Times‑Journal:

"Concordia College Alabama, a historically black Lutheran college, will close its doors and cease operations at the end of the spring semester.

Dr. James Lyons, chief transition officer and interim president for the college, shared the news with faculty and staff Wednesday morning. He then told the student body during a meeting in the school’s gymnasium that afternoon...

Concordia College Alabama was founded in 1922 and has a current student population of around 400, according to Lyons. The school is the city’s only four-year college accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.

“That staff will have mortgages, car payments and children in college,” Lyons said. “You have students who came to you hoping that they would complete a degree at your particular institution because that’s where they wanted to be.”

Concordia has faced rumors of closing for a number of years due to the school’s financial hardship.

“The board of regents has been working a number of years to try to solidify the college’s financial situation by looking at investors both foreign and domestic,” Lyons said. “So this has been a long effort that has spanned several years, and the board had to decide at some point we’ve got to close if we cannot find an investor partner.”

That point was Friday, Feb. 16. Lyons said that was the deadline the board of regents set to reach a deal with an investor or close the school.

Earlier this month while discussing the possibility of closure, Lyons said the school was in contact with at least seven different investors to help pay off the school’s debt and keep it afloat for the next year and a half until it could reach financial stabilization. But none of those panned out, Lyons said, which ultimately led to the decision to close the doors.

“It’s very difficult to operate an institution with the lowest possible tuition and fees when you are faced with escalating costs,” Lyons said. “Unless you have somebody who can fill that gap, it becomes a problem.”"



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Missouri bought the land from a Roman Catholic school,
and they installed crypto-papists to serve there. The Purple Palace has its first chaplain ever, and he was going to leave Missouri to become a Catholic priest.
Missouri dedicated the building but forgot to include an exorcism!

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GJ - LCMS executives have been spending money on their salaries, benefits, and deluxe dinners out, plus executive buildings, as befits their elevated status. The amount they needed is chicken-feed, compared to what they spend on themselves.

As most people know, the synods realized with alarm that their priorities were wrong. They were spending too much on higher education instead of letting students borrow themselves into oblivion.

Does anyone know what is really spent at CPH, at the Purple Palace, at district headquarters?

Each one is a Hotel California. Money goes in but never leaves - in helping anything more than unearned egos. Try to find the facts about CPH. On Guidestar, the latest IRS form 990 for CPH is 2012!

Hotel California
I had to find the passage back to the place I was before
"Relax," said the night man, "We are programmed to receive
You can checkout any time you like, but you can never leave!"

Hotel LCMS
I had to trace the money back to the place I gave it to
"Relax," said the DP. "God  has blessed us to receive
Donate any way you wish to give, your money never leaves.

A few years in a parish serving as a campaign manager,
and whoosh, he is soon at headquarters with a princely salary. St. John Vianney is comfortably close, next door.

 Paul McCain, another Concordia Ft. Wayne graduate,
posted a section of this painting's photo on his blog.
One of our jolly readers created a perfect Photoshop.
The original painting commemorates St. Bernard being nursed by an image of the Virgin Mary.