When this year’s new Kairos students attend their first intensive learning seminar in a few weeks, they will be given an outline of the Kairos Project curriculum. That outline is significantly different than the outline that was given to last year’s new students, and last year’s outline was different than the first year’s outline. In…
In a recent research project, Dr. Harriet Rojas and I looked at various operational models across higher education. After looking over our research, talking with more individuals, and reviewing the efforts that some schools have made to address the issue of the rising cost of theological education, we have come to the conclusion that schools…
We are facing unprecedented change in theological education. Enrollment is declining, financial models are being challenged, and longtime assumptions are no longer true. Students, accreditors, the federal government, and local ministries are all demanding more from seminaries and the system of theological education. What are we to do? I say it is time to learn…
Two-thirds of all incoming MDiv students at ATS seminaries commute to class – regardless of their size, all seminaries seem to be regional schools. 78% of all incoming part-time MDiv students work more than 20 hours per week. 81% of ALL incoming MDiv students work while attending school. During the 2011-2012 academic year (the most…
The world is changing and the rate of change is only going to increase. I believe there are 5 “steps” which we need to take in order to be properly equipped to engage all those in our constituency base. The steps are based on a few shifts we are seeing in the world around us….
This is the second part of a two-part series on Agile Program Development. Today we are going to dive deeper into how to do Agile Program Development and provide two examples. If you haven’t read the first post, I strongly encourage you to do so. It provides the foundation for this post as well as…
How long does it take an institution to develop and implement a new program? Program development within seminaries and much of higher education often takes a lot of time. For instance, I know of one school that was planning to take three or more years to develop a new doctoral program. While such a process…