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Upcoming Events

Dec 9 to Dec 12
2019 ATS Presidents' Events

By registration; ATS is once again linking the annual Seminar for New Presidents and the Presidential Leadership Intensive to maximize opportunities for collaboration. The Seminar for New Presidents is designed for recently appointed presidents, rectors, and executive deans to explore the variety of responsibilities that are central to theological school leadership, and to engage in conversations about their roles and identities as institutional leaders in ATS member schools. New CEOs are encouraged to participate within first three years in new position. The Presidential Leadership Intensive Conference gathers chief executive officers to share insights about their distinctive work as leaders of theological schools. Participants engage crucial issues in theological education through conversations with peers, expert presentations, workshops, and interactions with ATS staff. New presidents will gather December 9 and 10, and all presidents will gather December 10–13. #ATSCEOS2019

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Orlando, FL

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Dec 16 to Dec 18
2019 School for New Deans

By application—event is full; Designed for academic deans in their first year or two of service, the school will provide new deans with important information and nurture the development of the skills that will make their work more effective and fulfilling. It will acquaint new deans with the resources available to theological schools through ATS, facilitate connections between academic deans serving within the distinctive world of theological education, and continue the process of formation into the vocation of the academic deanship. #ATSNewDeans2019

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Pittsburgh, PA

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Jan 12 to Jan 14
2020 Latin/Hispanic Presidents' and Deans' Meeting

By registration; This group of presidents and chief academic officers of ATS member schools will gather to engage one another around areas of common interest and concern as theological school leaders. They will explore what Latin@ leadership/experience offers to the conversation of models of theological education, share experiences uniquely related to their leadership, and discuss ways of developing pipelines toward executive leadership for women and new scholars.

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San Juan, Puerto Rico

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Jan 23
ESQ Webinar: What We are Learning from Our Fall 2019 Entering Students

By registration; This free webinar will present highlights from the 2019–2020 Entering Student Questionnaire (ESQ) Total School Profile and trends from the last five to ten years. It will focus on: educational and religious backgrounds of entering students, student pathways to seminary, and vocational goals of incoming students. This webinar is designed for academic administrators and would also be beneficial for any faculty and board members who are interested in trends in theological education.

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Webinar via Zoom
Feb 6 to Feb 7
Spring 2020 Commission on Accrediting Self-Study Workshop

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 spring 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.

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Pittsburgh, PA

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Feb 10 to Feb 11
2020 African American CEOs' and CAOs' Annual Conference

By registration. An annual conference to provide African American presidents, deans, and chief academic officers of ATS member schools the opportunity to discuss areas of common interest and concern. The theme for the 2020 gathering is Mentoring Gen-Next: Cultivating Executive Leadership for 2030. The event will focus on professional development and community support; self-care and strategies for thriving; and financial forecasting and strategic planning.

 

Washington, DC

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Feb 18 to Feb 19
2020 Development Officers' Conference

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

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Jacksonville, FL

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Mar 17 to Mar 19
2020 Student Personnel Administrators' Conference

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

 

Jacksonville, FL

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Mar 24 to Mar 26
Spring 2020 Women in Leadership Mentoring Program

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.

 

Jacksonville, FL

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Mar 27 to Mar 29
2020 Roundtable Seminar for New Faculty

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

 

Jacksonville, FL

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Jun 23
2020 Academic Officers' Conference

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

Vancouver, BC

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Jun 24 to Jun 25
2020 ATS/COA Biennial Meeting

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

Vancouver, BC

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Oct 21 to Oct 23
Cultivating Educational Capacity Dissemination Conference

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.

 

 

Pittsburgh, PA

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