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Hmong Teens Document History - St. Paul Pioneer Press
Last fall, Paul Hillmer set out on a mission to get Hmong high school students to save their history - in their families' own words - for future generations. Armed with a $10,000 grant from The History Channel, digital voice recorders and a can-do attitude, the Concordia University history professor recruited local students to interview their elders. Read Full Story

How to Get the Most Out of Online Education - Police Magazine
There's one question that all prospective students ask before they sign up for a program that will allow them to complete their college degree online: Is this really any good? Scott Harr, a retired Minnesota police chief who now heads the online criminal justice program at St. Paul-based Concordia University, has a clear answer: "For some students, it's better." - Police Magazine

Professor Helps Combat Childhood Obesity Epidemic - WCCO Radio
Rick Benson, assistant professor of Health & Exercise Science, made a guest appearance on the Mike Max show (WCCO-Radio) on Tuesday, April 24, from 8 - 9 p.m.

Pitcher Returns to Home Base - Star Tribune
Just two years after her standout senior season with Columbia Heights, Jenny Kaminski said she's just happy to still be playing softball. Up until this summer, the now-sophomore pitcher at Concordia University St. Paul didn't know whether she would ever pitch again after experiencing what she considers a less than ideal freshman year with the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire softball team. But she said she's excited to be a member of the Golden Bears, and her 10-3 record this spring is proof. Read Full Story

Hmong History Finds a Home - Star Tribune
Tucked away amid basement boxes and bookshelves in a handsome St. Paul house is a treasure trove that scholars say is rapidly becoming the world's largest repository of Hmong books, artifacts, photographs and recordings. There's a valuable qeej, a traditional Hmong instrument that looks like a wooden trombone and sounds like an accordion. There's a book written by a Chinese emperor in 1810, exploring the history of the oppressed people known in China as the Miao. Read Full Story

Concordia Adjunct Prof Helps Curb Gang Violence - City Pages
Concordia adjunct professor of Criminal Justice Joe Arvidson was featured in the Jan. 24, 2007, issue of City Pages, in the newspaper's cover story on Twin Cities gangs and various efforts aimed at curbing gang violence. Along with his teaching duties, Arvidson is a Ramsey County probation officer who works exclusively with adults convicted of gang-related crimes. Says Scott Harr, chair of the Criminal Justice M.A. program, "When we tell prospective students one of the attributes of our program is our faculty are experts not only because they have studied their subjects, but do it, we're serious!" Read Full Story

Concordia Grad Finds Earthly Reward For Humane Service - Star Tribune
Nicholas Thomley was a college sophomore when he started his social services company, which has grown in seven years to $7.2 million in revenue. Read Full Story

A Sense of Home at Concordia - Star Tribune
And you certainly gain an appreciation for his unlikely journey: From early childhood in Sudan, to a few years combined in Ethiopia and Kenya, to Des Moines, Iowa -- with his brother, sister and uncle -- where his family knew other Sudanese people had fled. From Des Moines to Ellsworth Community College in Iowa Falls; and from there, as of August, to St. Paul and Division II basketball at Concordia. "It was a great decision to come here," Chany said. Read Full Story

Maly Interviewed for KARE 11 Extra Broadcast
Professor Lonn D. Maly, dean of the College of Education, was interviewed for Thursday night's KARE 11 Extra on the pros and cons of homework by reporter Rondah Kinchlow. View the five minute broadcast

Mold the Perfect Child - Best Life Magazine
Dads want the very best for their children, but often they go overboard in their ambition and get it very, very wrong, argues David J. Bredehoft, Ph.D., chairman of the department of social and behavioral sciences at Concordia University, in St. Paul, Minnesota. Read Full Story

Futurist Joel Barker Setting Wheels in Motion at Concordia - St. Paul Pioneer Press
Futurist Joel Barker brings his Implications Wheel to St. Paul's Concordia University, giving MBA students a tool for assessing the broad effects of business initiatives before making costly mistakes. Read Full Story

Concordia U Starts Biz School, MBA - Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal
The St. Paul-based private, non-profit university is combining its existing business-degree programs into the College of Business and Organizational Leadership. It's also enrolling students in its first MBA program, which will be a 22-month online course that begins Nov. 16. Read More

Dorm is Where the Heart is - St. Paul Pioneer Press
With mounds of marketing dollars aimed at college students moving into dorms, we asked four students who bunk at Concordia University in St. Paul about whether they really care about matching throw pillows. Their answers: Yes and no. Read More

Hmong Culture Camp Allows Children to Share Heritage - St. Paul Pioneer Press
Sally Baas, a middle-aged white woman, is the first to say she's in no position to teach Hmong children about their own heritage. But as a career educator looking from the outside in, she speaks with a mother's heart about fearing 'this beautiful culture' would vanish before her eyes. Read More