Practicing Innovation: The Relationship between Structures, Place, and Innovation

October 8, 2025
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How institutional structures and assumptions about “place” impact innovation, emphasizing transparency and reimagined systems.

In this recording, Dr. Angela D. Sims, president of Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, explores how institutional structures and assumptions about “place” shape or stifle innovation. This conversation challenges approaches to innovation that simply add new “content” to the same containers and emphasizes the role of structures and transparency in reimagining theological education from the ground up.

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