Five-Year Goals for The Divinity School
Executive Summary
The Divinity School will focus its energy and initiatives over the next five years on achieving the following goals:
- Enhance the faculty through aggressive recruitment and retention, especially by developing our intellectual strengths;
- Strengthen our recruitment and formation of students for transformative leadership in their ministries;
- Create programs and practices to sustain and develop the Divinity School staff;
- Develop a major initiative focused on forming leaders for the church, the world, and the academy, especially through a new Th.D. program, and develop other postgraduate and custom education programs designed to strengthen pastoral, congregational, and institutional leadership;
- Cultivate the Wesleyan tradition through initiatives in scholarship and curricula, student recruitment, leadership development, and strategic partnerships;
- Advance key program initiatives in the areas of Theology and Health Care (particularly the ICEOL), Pastoral Leadership, Reconciliation, and the “houses of studies” programs, focusing on cultivating synergies among the programs, especially in areas of leadership development, constituency relations, strategic planning, and operations management;
- Develop initiatives and relationships that contribute to, and enhance, the University’s emphases and broad themes;
- Increase strategically our use of information technology through enhanced staff, integration of technology into teaching and learning, and programmatic outreach with diverse external audiences;
- Create long-term financial strength and stability for the Divinity School’s overall budget, including aggressive fund-raising for priorities and enhanced financial aid for students.