By registration; The 38th annual conference will offer workshops on topics related to annual giving, planned gifts, personnel management, internal and external collaboration, and communications, with opportunities for professional development and peer interaction in a distinctly theological context. This year's theme is Re-envisioning Theological Education: Ensuring Sustainability in an Age of Uncertainty. #ATSDIAP2020
By registration; This conference is structured around serving administrators from multiple areas of student services including admissions/recruitment, career services, enrollment management, financial aid, housing and student life, and registration. Persons like deans of students and directors who have broad oversight of other staff members working in these areas will also benefit from the practical how-to workshops and discipline-specific presentations and plenary gatherings. This year's theme is Re-envisioning Theological Education: Balancing Agility and Stability amidst Rapid Change. #ATSSPAN2020
By invitation; This event is designed to launch a mentoring program enabling experienced women leaders to provide mentorship for younger women leaders over a period of three years. The pilot mentoring program will gather together ten mentors with three mentees each for this initial conference to set up the program and provide guidance for the process. This year's theme is Mentoring the Next Generation of Leaders.
By nomination of academic dean; ATS will host this gathering for faculty members who are completing their first or second years in their institutions. ATS sees the exploration of vocation as the event’s overarching theme. Accordingly, two academic deans, two assistant professors, and two associate professors will share their own expectations and experiences regarding how an individual faculty member might not only survive, but hopefully thrive, within the shared vocation of a theological school. #ATSFACULTY2020
By registration; A preconference for deans is scheduled to take place in conjunction with the 2020 ATS/COA Biennial Meeting and will offer professional development opportunities, a collegial network, and a context for nurturing the vocation of academic officers and visioning its future development. #ATSCAOS2020
By registration; The Biennial Meeting—centered around the theme of Quality. Clarity. Flexibility. Re-envisioning Theological Education for a New Generation—will include business sessions, workshops, and a banquet. In addition, the membership will vote on the redeveloped ATS Commission Standards and Procedures. The 2020 ATS Academic Officers' Conference will immediately precede this event. #ATSBiennial2020
By invitation; Offered by the staff of the ATS Commission on Accrediting, this workshop is for ATS member schools with comprehensive evaluation visits scheduled in the fall 2022 semester. It provides contexts and opportunities for participants to engage with one another and with the staff to obtain experience and tools for constructing appropriate, adequate, and effective institutional self-studies in preparation for comprehensive and initial evaluation visits. Registration is free of charge, but schools will be responsible for payment of travel and housing expenses for their representatives.
By invitation; The goal of this program is to increase the educational effectiveness of ATS schools in educating racial/ethnic students and all students in cultural competence. Twenty schools involved in a two-year project to develop their capacities to educate racial/ethnic students more effectively and/or work on educational practices to prepare all students for ministry in a multiracial culture will reconvene to share best practices emanating from the implementation of their educational strategies.
