Friday, March 1, 2024

From Daniel Lee Gard - Updates on the Ann Arbor and Mequon Dual College Arrangement

 

Daniel Lee Gard earned a PhD from Notre Dame, in theology.


This was received today:

Dear members of the Concordia community:

A special session of the CUWAA Board of Regents is taking place today in Wisconsin. Prayers continue to abound.

We will make any outcomes from their discussion public on Friday, March 1, 2024.

Here are the details for how you can access the outcomes:

    Update from Board Chairperson Rev. John Berg to be posted online at www.cuaa.edu/future
    Friday, March 1, 10 a.m. Central/11 a.m. Eastern

Please note that the link isn't live yet, but will be tomorrow!


List of LCMS Colleges Already Gone or Going
  1. The Chinese campus was sold to pay down the LCMS college debt, as I recall.
  2. The Selma campus was shut down.
  3. The New York City campus was sold and another school took it over immediately.
  4. The Portland college embroiled itself in HotChalk, with both sides going to court over the online learning dream gone sour.
  5. The Ann Arbor and Mequon schools, separate but equal, are getting the publicity now. The new president of the arrangement, with a Jesuit degree, seems to be a closer, not a builder.
Every campus gets a big load of federal student loan money, and foreign students are called "walking bags of money." However, the gradual erosion of Lutheran identity and doctrine has made the colleges very much like the other schools that were almost 100% for the teachers and students.

Online students can be from anywhere, and there is nothing keeping students from bouncing from  campus to campus, via the keyboard. 

ELCA was closing down colleges and slimming seminaries years ago. WELS/ELS are thinking they might be in a Schwan song of their own. Marvin liked to spread the loot around, so his gifts were stretched out between the ELS, WELS, and who knows?  Those shiny new buildings, chapels, and gyms are looking bad, turning into Christian (Pilgrim's Progress, which nobody reads) carrying a heavy burden on his back - his sins.

My high school English teacher asked the class, "Have you read Pilgrim's Progress? If you haven't, you are IGNORANT!"