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Of those 313 students, 164 are registered in Concord's program. The other 149 are taking courses at Concord but are registered in programs at other colleges or universities.
Broken down in another way, of the 313 students, 61 are listed as full-time, with the remaining 252 classified as part-time. There are 171 males and 142 females.
Concord's Full-time Equivalent Number is 148 (see sidebar) Denomination 1996 1995 Mennonite Brethren 30% 37% Mennonite 14% 14% Other evangelical 25% 21% Other Protestant 17% 12% Catholic 11% 12% Other 3% 4% Programs 1996 1995 Christian/Religious studies 31% 33% Music 32% 24% Administrative Studies 7% 8% General Arts 30% 35%
Ed Buller, dean from 1993 to 1996 is now engaged in educational and project consulting work in Canada and abroad. He continues to work for Concord by leading the International Studies project in partnership with Concord College and Lithuanian Christian College, and he coordinates the Senior Management program, a Continuing Education program of Concord College.
Suzanne and Jeff Ross are the new residence directors. They live on campus and provide leadership and counsel for residence assistants and campus fellowship groups. They are part of The Meeting Place congregation.
Professors William and Irmgard Baerg are on leave of absence and study leave respectively. Their classes and individual students are being handled by sessional instructors from Canadian Mennonite Bible College and the community.
George Shillington spent January to June 1996 pastoring a local Presbyterian congregation in his home community of Selkirk, Man. During that time, he taught one Bible course at Concord and offered an evening series on the Parables of Jesus. He also completed his commentary on II Corinthians for the Believers Church Commentary Series. This year Shillington is back at Concord teaching full-time.
President James Pankratz announced his resignation earlier this year. It is effective at the end of the 1996/97 academic year.
Concord College and Menno Simons College are cooperatively offering two courses on Concord campus, "Introduction to Conflict Resolution", and "Conflict Resolution in the Faith Community". The Conflict Resolution program of Menno Simons College is one of the fastest growing programs at the University of Winnipeg, as mediation programs and conflict management become more urgently needed in classrooms and communities.
Concord release
Concord College calculates FTE by the following method:
1. It counts each student who is taking three or more Concord courses (18 or more credit hours) as a full-time student.
2. In a separate calculation, Concord courses taken by part-time students are totalled, then divided by three.
3. The total of 1 and 2 (the number of actual full-time students plus the part-time student calculation) is called the Full-Time Equivalent.
FTE is particularly important for Concord because most of its students are also attending classes at the University of Winnipeg, with which it is associated. Thus there are few students who take all of their courses at Concord College. This is different from many MB post-secondary schools, where most students take all of their courses within the institution. Concord's FTE this year is 148, up from 127 last year.
(Note: Concord defines a full-time student as one who takes at least three courses. This represents about 60% of a full load of courses. Concord uses this definition because it is the definition used by the Canadian government's Canada Student Loan Program, as well as by most universities. In contrast, most Bible schools count four courses as respresenting full-time status.)
KH
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