ELO:
In the wake of a number of changes in three Episcopal Church-affiliated seminaries, the dean of the General Theological Seminary has told that community that while the school faces “major financial and programmatic challenges,” they “are not insurmountable.”
“The immediate future of General Seminary is not imperiled,” the Very Rev. Ward Ewing, GTS dean and president, wrote in a July 2 letter. “Decisive action, however, is not simply called for but demanded.”
Ewing said that during a May board meeting, GTS’ trustees committed to a three-year plan to address the challenges.
“We must respond to the changing needs for theological education that come as our world and our church change,” he said in the letter.
See, also, the two part series in in The Daily Episcopalian on the new realities faced by Episcopal Seminaries which began yesterday and concludes today.
Earlier Cafe posts on the financial challenges of seminaries can be found by following these The Lead and the Daily Episcopalian category links.