Last year Sulpician Father Gerald Coleman ended a 16-year tenure as president-rector of St. Patrick's Seminary in Menlo Park, California, the seminary of the archdiocese of San Francisco. Here he reflects on his tenure.

Faith Rohrbough spent eight years as president of Lutheran Theological Seminary, Saskatoon. Near the end of her tenure there, she delivered this address to a group of new seminary presidents at an Association of Theological Schools meeting.

In 1995, the Rev. Benjamin Griffin, president of United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, was invited to take the same position at Andover Newton Theological School. Halfway through his tenure at Andover Newton, he offered some advice to a group of new seminary presidents.

In May, at his final meeting with the board of directors and board of trustees of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's largest seminary, the Rev. David Tiede recapped his vision for Luther Seminary, recalling the school's increasingly public role.

The Rev. Neal Fisher was associate dean and assistant professor of theology and society at Boston University School of Theology until 1980. That year he became president of another United Methodist school, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary. He retired in 2001.

On July 1, 2005, Dr. Sam Logan became chancellor of Westminster Theological Seminary after serving as president of the school for more than 13 years. Westminster, a nondenominational school in the Reformed tradition, has campuses in Glenside, Pennsylvania, and Dallas, Texas. Earlier this year he spoke with Mindy L. Withrow, associate director of communications at the seminary, about milestones achieved during his tenure and his vision for the future. The interview is excerpted here.