An accreditation primer for boards
Just an administrative issue? On the contrary! Accreditation touches the board’s work in significant ways
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Summer 2013
11 Articles
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An accreditation primer for boards
Just an administrative issue? On the contrary! Accreditation touches the board’s work in significant ways
Accrediting standards have recently changed, and seminary and theological school board members should understand these changes as well as their own role in the accreditation process.
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Equipping those who spread the Gospel
An interview with Northwest Nazarene University's president, David Alexander
Northwest Nazarene University has been offering online ministry degrees for years. Why are they now pursuing membership in the Association of Theological Schools?
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Dancing on the edge
Facing bankruptcy, a New York seminary sells buildings, reforms governance, and chooses life
An interview with The General Theological Seminary’s turnaround president, Lang Lowrey.
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The theological library in the age of technology
Libraries remain vital to seminary education, say the librarians at Catholic Theological Union and Abilene Christian University.
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Lessons from a crisis
In Trust interim president G. Douglass Lewis enumerates the lessons all theological school leaders can learn from one seminary that faced down a financial crisis.
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Board members and the art of saying thanks
Board members have two crucial roles to play in seminary fundraising: Augmenting the development office’s information about current and former donors, and call donors to thank them.
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Teach the governance you want
Orienting new board members about the “governance triad”
Orienting new board members about the “governance triad”
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Intercultural competence: Not just for missionaries anymore
Intercultural competence is one of the best measures of spiritual maturity, say Bethel Seminary researchers who have been using a tool called the Intercultural Development Inventory
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Explorers in a foreign land
When MBAs join a nonprofit board
A review of Joining a Nonprofit Board: What You Need to Know by Marc J. Epstein and F. Warren McFarlan. Plus: an interview with co-author Marc J. Epstein.
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Extra oxygen for your 20-mile march
With an array of new metaphors, Jim Collins reveals findings about businesses that thrive in chaotic times
A review of Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck — Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by Jim Collins and Morten T. Hansen
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