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North American Baptist Conference
Website:
Address:
2100 South Summit Avenue
Sioux Falls, SD 57105-2729
United States
Phone:
605-336-6588
Chief Executive Officer:
Gregory J Henson
Chief Academic Officer:
Larry W Caldwell
Accreditation Liaison Officer:
Shanda L Stricherz
ATS Commission Staff Liaison:
Stephen Graham
Number of Students (FTE):
1069 (651.80)
Number of Full-Time Faculty (FTE):
13 (18.00)
Member Status:
Accredited in Good Standing
School's Statement of Educational Effectiveness
Year-Term of Next Comprehensive Accreditation Visit:
2029-fall
Approved Degree Programs:
MDiv, MA, MA in Counseling, MA in Leadership, MA in Marriage and Family Therapy, DMin, Doctor of Professional Counseling, PhD, ThD
Approval to Offer Distance (Online) Education:
Comprehensive (Half or More of a Degree)
Required Reports (Year-month and Topic):
2025-11 (Educational Experiment)
Additional Information:
In June 2022, the Board of Commissioners (BOC) approved the school (reaffirming the BOC’s action taken in June 2021) to offer the reduced-residency ThD program beginning in fall 2022 as an ongoing exception, based on the effectiveness of Evangelical Theological Seminary's four-year experiment (see Standard 5.15 and Policies and Procedures, IV.G.1), since Evangelical is now part of Kairos. Also in June 2022, the BOC approved the Doctor of Philosophy (see Standards 5.11-16) degree program as an ongoing exception with reduced residency (the same as the school’s already approved ThD program). In February 2024, the BOC approved an educational experiment to offer the seminary’s ThD and PhD programs with no residency requirement, utilizing videoconferencing to replace in-person residency intensives.