Governance: Mission as a collective endeavor

Our sense of vision will necessarily affect how we understand ourselves, what our priorities are, and what the partnerships are that we cultivate. As a seminary of the church, the thriving of such values is linked to the quality of collegiality.

• Governance is not to be separated from collegiality and is intimately related to the shared creation of an ecology within which the values we seek are best able to flourish.

• Governance is not to do with everyone doing the same thing, but recognizes an appropriate separation of the powers.

• Governance is formative as well as participatory and relates also to faculty, staff and student development.

• The seminary faculty will continue to be a community of highly qualified scholars whose shared commitment is to the formation of competent leadership for the church in its diverse forms. The development of the faculty will emphasize their skills as teachers, mentors, and scholars.

• We believe that a faculty flourishes best in a context which is both supportive and stretching. Stretching operates through peer review, feedback from student assessment, contact with guilds, opportunities for research, exchange and collaborations.

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