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From Confusion to Clarity: Strengthening Your School’s Brand
Facilitator: Dan Kennedy, Vice President, The FOCUS Group Many theological institutions are facing mounting pressure regarding…
Access sample policies, charters, and practical tools that can guide your board’s work to support governance, leadership, and decision-making in theological schools.
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On My Mind
The straight truth
Categories are useful for defining and organizing complexity but don’t always fit. It’s time to reconsider…
Feature Articles
Under pressure
Frank Yamada, the executive director of the Association of Theological Schools, considers the unprecedented turnover in…
The Guardian
Remark(able) | For Board Reflection
Take a moment to consider how the board chair sets the tone for the work of…
The Star
Future Promise | Safekeeping
The relationship between the board chair and the board begins by knowing each new member as…
The Star
Present Moment | Shared Governance
Over time, shared governance has been sometimes defined less by mutual accountability and public responsibility, and…
Feature Articles
Five practices for stewarding seminaries well
For four decades, Steven Moore has worked with hundreds of nonprofit boards. What he has learned…
The Guardian
Governance Matters | Engaging well
Dr. Jodi Porter provides a new tool to help schools frame the conversation around diversity, equity,…
The Guardian
Remark(able) | For Board Reflections
When you think about leadership transitions, consider David Gyertson's advice.
The Guardian
Wait-and-see is over-and-done
Rev. Dr. David Rowe says leaders and governing boards need to confront the issues facing theological…
The Star
From sinking to thriving
Rev. Dr. Jason Allen offers insights into how his school plans to be the “strongest seminary…
On My Mind
Where are the women in leadership?
Women are still lacking in leadership roles at theological schools. The question is why.
The Guardian
Momentous Decision | What’s In a Name?
At BSK – Baptist Seminary of Kentucky – we’re planning to change the name, and we’re…
Guide
Core Essential 6-Ending Well
Many theological schools face mounting financial and enrollment pressures that make “business as usual” unsustainable. Chronic…
Annual Report
Core Essential 3-President-Board Chair Partnership
Wise boards know the relationship between the school president and board chair is mission-critical.
Document
Core Essential 4-Balanced Budgets Fundraising Goals
Budget building is a challenging process, especially when finances are tight, and board members should balance…
Annual Report
Top 10 Questions When Merging
Consider these top 10 questions that trustees, presidents, and CFOs should ask each other and themselves…
Other
The Basics of Change Management
Transformation becomes essential when the current vision and operations can no longer sustain an organization’s health.
Guide
4 Steps to Smooth Functioning Shared Governance
Shared governance has long been a part of theological education in North America but is often…
Guide
Core Essential 1 – Storytelling
While financial control often seems like the key to influence, it’s storytelling that holds power. Boards…
Guide
Executive Sessions
If your board is not holding an executive session during every board meeting, maybe it should.
News & Insights
Resource Grants: United Theological Seminary
The conference includes faculty and scholars reflecting on the forces shaping higher education today. Each year,…
News & Insights
Resource Grants: Mission University
With the help of an In Trust Resource Grant, Baptist Bible College rebranded as Mission University,…
News & Insights
In Trust Monthly Newsletter: August 2025
Deferred maintenance, CBTE's potential, role of boards, and much more.
News & Insights
Strategic Shorts: Large-scale Collaboration and the Role of Boards
Strategic Short: Large-scale Collaboration and the Role of Boards
News & Insights
In Trust Monthly Newsletter: July 2025
THE MAGAZINE Flexible, tailored collaboration partners Eden Theological Seminary’s initiative, “Navigating the Shift,” funded by a $5…
News & Insights
Board Chair Newsletter: July 2025
Grants to help your advisory or governance board
News & Insights
Strategic Shorts: Large-scale Collaboration and Change of Control
This video explores the formal process of transferring control between institutional boards.
News & Insights
In Trust Monthly Newsletter: June 2025
Collaborations, Shared Services, Shifting Regulatory Environment, and much more.
Videos & Webinars
Practicing Innovation in Community
Practicing innovation as communal formation In this recording, Dr. David Williams, president of Taylor College and…
Videos & Webinars
Practicing Innovation
Video series to inspire your work In this six-part recorded series, leaders from across theological education…
Videos & Webinars
Strategic Shorts: Large-scale Collaboration and the Role of Boards
Focus on the critical role boards play in large-scale collaborations
Videos & Webinars
Large-scale Collaboration and Integrating Cultures
What it takes to lead successful institutional collaborations
Videos & Webinars
Large-scale Collaboration and Change of Control
The formal process of transferring control between institutional boards
Videos & Webinars
Large-scale Collaboration and Organizational Readiness
Assessing organizational readiness for change and preparing multiple institutions for intensive cooperation.
Videos & Webinars
Boards on a Tight Rope: Navigating the Power Differential in Shared Governance
Webinar explores attitudes about power, types of power at play within shared governance, and strategies for…
Videos & Webinars
Redeeming Conflict One Tough Conversation at a Time
Conflict can either divide or strengthen institutions, offering a framework and practical strategies for constructive dialogue.
Podcast
Ep. 100: What decades of governance still have to teach us
What are the trends in governance – the new ways to make things work? First, look…
Podcast
Ep. 99: Rethinking value: How theological schools can thrive in a changing world
In this episode, the Rev. Dr. David Rowe reflects on the sweeping changes affecting higher education…
Podcast
Ep. 98: Creating a virtual neighborhood through an innovative approach to distributed learning
Host Matt Hufman speaks with Rev. Dr. David Vásquez-Levy, president of Pacific School of Religion (PSR),…
Podcast
Ep. 71: Governance and the practice of holiness
Can the work of governance – even board meetings – be holy? Award-winning writer and author…
Podcast
Ep. 59: The Leadership Crisis in Theological Education
Dr. David Gyertson has seen a variety of leadership transitions both in his own career and…
Podcast
Ep. 50 – Hartford’s story, making big change
Upon assuming the presidency at Hartford Seminary, Joel Lohr, Ph.D., implemented a seemingly routine strategic plan….
Podcast
Ep. 48: Keeping the mission vibrant – Lancaster’s story
During his tenure as interim president of Lancaster Theological Seminary, Dr. David Rowe was challenged with…
Podcast
Ep. 46: Who’s afraid of AI? How theological educators can think about AI
There has been considerable concern about AI and its use in theological higher education, particularly as…
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Videos & Webinars
Practicing Innovation: Integrated Innovation
Innovation in theological education requires systemic thinking, shared practices, and organizational alignment rooted in mission. In…
Videos & Webinars
Practicing Innovation: Innovation Over Time
Change and innovation are about faithfulness to mission and listening to the spirit, and creating a…
Videos & Webinars
Practicing Innovation: Organizational Development, Culture, and Innovation
Explore how the formative nature of innovation can become the soil where creativity grows. Dr. Tammy…
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