CUS Facts

Investigating closures in the Concordia University System

Updates

  1. Hotchalk v. LCMS trial pushed to 2025 (April 2023)
  2. Oregon Supreme Court asks for review of protective order over Synod documents (January 2023)
  3. Oregon judge again denies Synod’s motions to dismiss, upholds protective order (July 2022)
  4. UO “is taking no position” in Hotchalk litigation (March 2022)
  5. Oregon judge reverses lis pendens decision (February 2022)
  6. LCEF counterpart in Canada collapsed in 2015 (January 2022)
  7. Court filings suggest LCMS officials forced out Concordia Portland president in 2018 (December 2021)
  8. NY judge orders $30m sale to Iona, $3m escrow for former faculty and staff (November 2021)
  9. Oregon judge denies motions to dismiss charges against LCMS (September 2021)
  10. Hotchalk-Concordia Portland trial pushed to 2023 (August 2021)
  11. LCEF buys Concordia Portland campus for $3m (July 2021)

Background

  1. Introduction
  2. What is the CUS?
  3. What is the LCMS?
  4. What is the LCEF?
  5. Concordia College Alabama
  6. Concordia University Portland
  7. Concordia College New York
  8. Tom Ries & Concordia University St. Paul

Appendix

  1. Timeline
  2. Media Library
  3. People
  4. LCMS Conventions
  5. Contact