Announcements

Graduation 2010

The Rev. Canon John Moses, Emeritus Dean of Saint Paul’s Cathedral, London, will deliver the 2010 Archbishop Robert Runcie Convocation Lecture on Thursday evening at 7 p.m., May 6, 2010. Following the lecture, there will be a social hour with refreshments for students, their families and friends.

The graduation ceremony will be held on Friday, May 7, in the Bendix Theater in the Century Center in downtown South Bend, Indiana. The Rev. Canon Moses will be inducted as an Honorary Fellow of the Foundation and will be granted the Doctor of Divinity honoris causa. The Revd. Professor Robin Gibbons of Oxford University will be inducted as a Fellow of the Foundation. The Graduation Address will be given by Mr. Chris Day, Director of Academic Programmes in the International Programmes Division of the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education. Rabbi David H. Aaron, Professor of Hebrew Bible and History of Interpretation at the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati will receive the Krister Stendahl Medal for Biblical Studies and will be inducted as an Honorary Fellow of the Foundation. Ms. Kim Ferraro, Esq., Executive Director of the Legal Environmental Aid Foundation of Indiana, Inc., will receive the Cloverdale College Community Service Award.

Collegiate‐level Teaching Appointments

During the Foundation’s years of providing doctoral‐level degree programs, many graduates have received university, college, and seminary teaching appointments. In order to share that information with alumni/ae and current students, the Foundation has chosen to now post such teaching appointments on the website. Presently, there are over 230 of our graduates who hold such teaching appointments at over 200 U.S. institutions and 40 foreign institutions. Alumni/ae who hold a teaching appointment at a college or university which is not listed on the roster should email that information to the Foundation so that it may be included. For the roster, visit the homepage and click on “About GTF” and then on “Alumni/Careers. ”

New Study Options

The Graduate Theological Foundation now offers Distance Learning Modules to aid those students for whom the financial and/or time demands of traveling to educational venues prove inconvenient. This educational model uses a creative combination of media including audio cassettes, video cassettes, CDs, and required readings. Each Distance Learning Modules is valued at one Unit of Study. Materials selected for inclusion in our Distance Learning Modules have been identified from both professional and academic media sources.

The student will use the information provided in the media materials to formulate a paper dealing with the topic of the module. Papers should reflect on the material covered in the course and its applicability to the student’s personal life and work and/or professional ministry. Media materials are provided to our students for ninety (90) days. All materials must be returned (undamaged) to the Graduate Theological Foundation along with the response paper in order to receive academic credit. Distance Learning Modules are available in the following subject areas: Religious Studies; Philosophy; Social Ethics; Political Theory; Economic Theory; Psychology; and Spanish Language Ministry.

A complete listing of available DLM courses and requirements can be found on the Venue Study Options page.

New M.B.A. in Non-Profit Management

The M.B.A. in Non-Profit Management is now offered by the Foundation either by online or residential study. Online options are from Indiana University at South Bend and the University of Illinois in Chicago. The residential option is at New York University’s Heyman Center for Philanthropy. For details and links to the online and residential information, see http://www.gtfeducation.org/Academics/Degrees/MBA.html

Oxford Foundation Fellowships Announced

Oxford Foundation Fellowships are being offered again by the Foundation. These are post-doctoral short-term residential research and writing opportunities in Oxford under the oversight of the Dean of Studies of Foundation House/Oxford. For descriptive details and a downloadable Application Form, go to:

http://www.gtfeducation.org/About_GTF/OXFORD-FOUNDATION-FELLOWSHIPS.html