Investigating closures in the Concordia University System
Updates
- Federal court grants CTX motion to dismiss; LCMS appeals to the Fifth Circuit (March 2025)
- Trial postponed again in Hotchalk-LCMS lawsuit (October 2024)
- Dr. Kristi Kirk named president of Concordia Texas (September 2024)
- Oregon Supreme Court dismisses writ of mandamus (May 2024)
- Oregon Supreme Court hears oral argument on Hotchalk’s mandamus petition (June 2023)
- Hotchalk v. LCMS trial pushed to 2025 (April 2023)
- Oregon Supreme Court asks for review of protective order over Synod documents (January 2023)
- Oregon judge again denies Synod’s motions to dismiss, upholds protective order (July 2022)
- UO “is taking no position” in Hotchalk litigation (March 2022)
- Oregon judge reverses lis pendens decision (February 2022)
- LCEF counterpart in Canada collapsed in 2015 (January 2022)
- Court filings suggest LCMS officials forced out Concordia Portland president in 2018 (December 2021)
- NY judge orders $30m sale to Iona, $3m escrow for former faculty and staff (November 2021)
- Oregon judge denies motions to dismiss charges against LCMS (September 2021)
- Hotchalk-Concordia Portland trial pushed to 2023 (August 2021)
- LCEF buys Concordia Portland campus for $3m (July 2021)
Background
- Introduction
- What is the CUS?
- What is the LCMS?
- What is the LCEF?
- Concordia College Alabama
- Concordia University Portland
- Concordia College New York
- Tom Ries & Concordia University St. Paul
CUS Facts 