{"id":683,"date":"2006-11-06T15:33:30","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T20:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=683"},"modified":"2007-03-02T15:14:05","modified_gmt":"2007-03-02T20:14:05","slug":"not-to-be-cynical-or-anything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=683","title":{"rendered":"Not to be cynical or anything…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meadville Lombard Theological School, where I took my M.Div., has announced “sweeping changes.” Less than two years after Meadville Lombard terminated full-time positions of professor of Unitarian Universalist history and professor of ethics, less than a year after the full-time professor of theology was reduced to half-time, Meadville Lombard announces that it will be hiring again:<\/p>\n

After reading the declaration, [Meadville Lombard president Lee] Barker acknowledged that the sweeping changes outlined would require at least six months to develop a full plan and begin its implementation. Still, Barker noted that the Board was able to implement the first actions of the plan, including the creation of the position of Provost to head a new student services department that better meets the needs of Meadville\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s student population, allowing these students to become the best academically and pastorally.<\/p>\n

Barker said the Board\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s commitment to this new position is demonstrated by a $50,000 donation from one of the Board members to be used to search for the right candidate for the position of Provost. [Link<\/a> to the “Declaration”]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Interestingly, Harvard Divinity School has just added a fully-endowed<\/em> chair in Unitarian Universalist studies. And Andover Newton Theological School has been increasing its academic commitment to Unitarian Universalist students. The new Provost at Meadville Lombard will, no doubt, be able to tell students how to take courses at Harvard and Andover Newton in order to get required coursework in Unitarian Universalist history, ethics, and theology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Meadville Lombard Theological School, where I took my M.Div., has announced “sweeping changes.” Less than two years after Meadville Lombard terminated full-time positions of professor of Unitarian Universalist history and professor of ethics, less than a year after the full-time professor of theology was reduced to half-time, Meadville Lombard announces that it will be hiring […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}