All Staff Lunch - November 16, 2010

Welcome New Employees

Natalie Cochrane Anders Davidson Andrew Fields Geoffrey Gill

Claudia Gustafson Darrail Hughs Michael Irvin Jennifer Krummel

Justin Neal Bulut Ozturk Heath Reynolds Sarah Siems

Dana Terres Melissa Wolf Long Yang

Presidential Search Committee Update

39 names were submitted for nomination ~ 25 declined ~ 14 accepted

After receiving many nominations for individuals to serve as Concordia’s ninth president, 14 nominees have consented to their nomination. Those individuals include:

Dr. Jon Bruss- Lawrence, Kan. Dr. Donald Christian- Round Rock, Texas

Dr. James Gimble- St. Paul, Minn. Ray Horton- Brainerd, Minn.

Dr. Nathan Jastram- Mequon, Wis. Dr. David Kluth- Round Rock, Texas

Lonn Maly- St. Paul, Minn. Dr. Marilyn Reineck- Roseville, Minn.

Rev. Thomas Ries- Kirkwood, Mo. Dr. Alan Runge- Cedar Park, Texas

Dr. William Schumacher- St. Louis, Mo. Rev. Gregory Seltz – Irvine Ca.

Dr. David Thomas – Manchester Mo. Dr. Glen Thomas- House Springs, Mo.

Faculty, staff and students are invited to submit correspondence regarding the candidates by e-mailing search-committee@csp.edu. Correspondence must be received by Friday, Dec. 31, 2010. Contact Carl Schoenbeck, Presidential Search Committee Chair at schoenbeck@csp.edu with any questions. Please continue to keep Concordia in your prayers during this time of transition.

Timeline

October 31 – nomination completed

November 15 – Deadline for submission of nominee data

Congregations and campus informed of list of nominees

Correspondence on nominees received until December 31

November – December – committee screening of candidates

January 3-7 – Board of Regents selects short list of candidate to submit to CUS panel for prior approval

January 8 - ?? – CUS panel give prior approval of list

February 10 Board of Regents selects final slate for campus interviews

March – campus interviews of approved short list nominees

April 15 – Board of Regents elects from final slate

Call Center Update

Service Trips for 2010-11

Florida (Tampa area)—environmental work in Terrea State Park, working with a biologist to track animal use of the park and also trail maintenance and building projects
Chicago—homelessness and urban focus (a variety of service in many different areas, likely youth, homeless shelters, soup kitchens, etc.) working with Center for Student Missions
Nicaragua—working predominately with youth in an orphanage and partnering with a NewSong Mission to host youth programs in a small rural village in the mountains
Haiti--playing with kids in an orphanage, putting on day camps for youth, helping teach English in school, etc. The group is working with Mission of Hope, Haiti.

Study Abroad

We have two new semester-long programs which are unique to CSP: Costa Rica and China.
Costa Rica is a partnership with the Concordia System and begins this Spring of 2011;

CSP can send up to three students
A professor from Concordia Texas will be teaching history and communication courses on behalf of the CISC system
We have accepted two students to travel from CSP

China is a partnership with the MN Private College Consortium and begins in Fall of 2011

United International College (UIC) is a small University of 5,000 students
It is a reciprocal program where they can send us Chinese students to study here and we can send our students to study there

In addition we already have a partnership set up with a school in Korea which is also reciprocal and we expect to receive 2 Korean students who will study here Fall 2011

Leadership Program

The Ignite Leadership Development program was developed January of 2008 and has recently expanded from one program to a 3-tiered model.
3-tiered model with the number of students involved:
12 Ignite students (advanced level students)
56 Equip students (primary level and most involved level)
25 Emerge students (1^st year students and primarily composed of scholarship recipients)
Annual leadership retreat just happened over fall break at Heartwood Retreat Center in Trego, WI
We filled the retreat with 32 students in 2010
Had 6 faculty/staff involved in offering trainings on the following topics:

Social media effects on communication
Relationship-based leadership
Goal-setting
Conflict management
Global leadership
Diversity

2010 Academic Year

It is estimated that 12-15 courses are offered each semester with a service-learning component
The Campus has 2 annual service days/event;

During Welcome Week we offer volunteer opportunities for all incoming 1^st year students for a half day service experience (in 2010 we had approximately 180 students participate)
MLK Jr Service Day; the day after MLK Day we offer another half day of service at various Twin Cities location that is open to the entire faculty, staff and students

2011 date: Tuesday, January 18^th, 2011 12:30 pm-5 pm
Staff interested in helping/participating in this year’s MLK Service Day event should contact Jarred Sampson or Sara Kellogg, co-chairs of the University’s Service Task force.
in 2010 we had 70 participate

Service-learning database has over 100 community partner organizations