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Practicing Collaboration: The Importance of Internal Collaboration
Dr. Brent Sleasman, president of Winebrenner Theological Seminary, reflects on leading the institution through a significant…
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The Guardian
When a change brings new focus
Why do schools change names? While there are a number of reasons, schools can take the…
The Star
Present Moment | Boards in a Shifting Landscape
As many seminary presidents think about the kind of truncation of ecclesial bodies, we always must…
The Star
Future Promise | Leading in an anxious time
What does it mean for the mission of a seminary when a small percentage of churches…
The Star
Moving the pieces; changing the board
With turmoil swirling this year around higher education, we asked experts to help us think through…
On My Mind
Awash in data
There’s no shortage of information at our fingertips. Interpretation and discernment must be brought to bear.
Feature Articles
The pendulum swings broadly
Diversity: what it means, how it is expressed, and the value any given culture assigns to…
Feature Articles
“We Have to Reframe the Situation”
Five schools share their experience of how they’re dealing with the very real issue of deferred…
Feature Articles
Flexible, tailored collaboration partners
Eden Theological Seminary has created a network of schools that will provide students a wide range…
The Guardian
Strategic Shorts
A new series of short videos can help leaders and boards wrap their heads around complex…
The Guardian
The shifting sands of regulation
With the federal government issuing new orders, two experts help schools plan a response for their…
The Star
All People Considered
TEDS, a longtime mainstay of evangelicalism in the United States, is heading north for its future…
The Star
Big Ideas Start Small
A $15,000 Resource Grant can go a long way by spurring innovation at schools.
Document
Core Essential 6-Ending Well
Many theological schools face mounting financial and enrollment pressures that make “business as usual” unsustainable. Chronic…
Document
Core Essential 4-Balanced Budgets Fundraising Goals
Budget building is a challenging process, especially when finances are tight, and board members should balance…
Document
Top 10 Questions When Merging
Consider these top 10 questions that trustees, presidents, and CFOs should ask each other and themselves…
Document
The Basics of Change Management
Transformation becomes essential when the current vision and operations can no longer sustain an organization’s health.
Document
Core Essential 1 – Storytelling
While financial control often seems like the key to influence, it’s storytelling that holds power. Boards…
Document
Core Essential 4: The Board’s Role in Fundraising
There are two key components to a board's role in fundraising: Collective governance and individual involvement.
Document
Creating Urgency Around the Business Model
In response to the global need for cost reduction and improved efficiency in education, institutional leadership…
White paper
Five things your board needs to understand about fundraising
News & Insights
Practicing Collaboration: Cultivating an Imagination for Collaboration
Drawing on her experience within the ATS community, Dr. Jo Ann Deasy, director of institutional initiatives,…
News & Insights
Three campus join together in one building
As Trish Shea detailed in the Summer 2024 issue of In Trust magazine, Catholic Theological Union…
News & Insights
In Trust Monthly Newsletter: August 2025
Deferred maintenance, CBTE's potential, role of boards, and much more.
News & Insights
Board Chair Newsletter: July 2025
Grants to help your advisory or governance board
News & Insights
Partnerships that Improve Institutional Sustainability and Quality
Webinar explores considerations for institutions pursuing strategic partnerships.
News & Insights
In Trust Monthly Newsletter: April 2025
The impact if AI on theological education, grant opportunities, rethinking ministry formation, and much more.
News & Insights
Strategic Short: Building Institutional Capacity by Repurposing Property and Facilities
Series of video shorts exploring how theological school leadership can strengthen economic vitality and mission fulfillment.
News & Insights
Strategic Shorts: Facilitating Large-scale Collaboration by Considering a Merger
Series of video shorts exploring how theological school leadership can strengthen economic vitality and mission fulfillment.
Videos & Webinars
Practicing Collaboration: Cultivating an Imagination for Collaboration
Drawing on her experience within the ATS community, Dr. Jo Ann Deasy, director of institutional initiatives,…
Videos & Webinars
Resource Grants Information Session
Watch this informational video to learn more about Resource Grants offered by the In Trust Center…
Videos & Webinars
Partnerships that improve institutional sustainability and quality
Webinar explores considerations for institutions pursuing strategic partnerships.
Videos & Webinars
Seminaries Are People Too
Seminaries are People Too: Mindsets that make or break institutional change
Videos & Webinars
Conflict + Crisis: Navigating the Shoals Part 2
Presenter Donna Alexander, President & CEO of Advoxum Global Strategies, offers best practices for navigating conflict…
Videos & Webinars
Conflict + Crisis: Navigating the Shoals Part 1
Presenter Donna Alexander, President & CEO of Advoxum Global Strategies, offers best practices for navigating conflict…
Videos & Webinars
Called to the Chair: Board Leadership for Unsettled Times
Dr. Rebekah Basinger addresses the opportunities and challenges that come with chairing the board of a…
Videos & Webinars
Guiding Transformations: Change Management
The In Trust Center is pleased to announce a new webinar series focused on change management…
Podcast
Ep. 107: Creating a different future
The future of theological education will require more than incremental change. In the latest episode of…
Podcast
Ep. 105: Finishing faithfully – leadership lessons on closing a school
What does it mean to finish well? The Rev. Dr. Colleen Derr reflects on one of leadership’s…
Podcast
Ep. 102: An inflection point for theological education and an opportunity to lead
As federal policies reshape higher education, leaders of theological schools face unprecedented pressure to adapt while…
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 94: Lessons to learn from Pathways initiative
As the Pathways for Tomorrow Initiative reaches its midpoint, theological schools are navigating both promising innovations…
Podcast
Ep. 92 – Faith, law, and the future: Governance in a shifting regulatory environment
What happens when federal education policy changes, roiling higher education, without specifically mentioning theological education? The…
Podcast
Ep. 91 Coworkers in the vineyard: Adaptive change and the future of theological collaboration
What if collaboration wasn’t a tactic, but a way of being? In this episode, Greg Henson…
Podcast
Ep. 89 – Rooted and Ready: Strengthening theological schools amid regulatory upheaval
In a time of political shifts and regulatory uncertainty, the Good Governance podcast dives into how…
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Videos & Webinars
Practicing Collaboration: Cultivating an Imagination for Collaboration
Drawing on her experience within the ATS community, Dr. Jo Ann Deasy, director of institutional initiatives,…
Videos & Webinars
The Thinkers: Reimagining the Board’s Role in Strategic Planning
October 13, 1:00 pm ET, Zoom Facilitator: Rebekah Burch Basinger, Ed.D.Project Director, In Trust Center’s Wise…
Videos & Webinars
Practicing Collaboration: Assessing Readiness for Collaboration
Ruth McGillivray, executive vice president of Northwest College and Seminary, shares the story of collaborative projects…
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