Executive Summary Overview
Transformative Leadership:
A Strategic Plan for Duke Divinity School
2006-2011
June 2006
The Divinity School of Duke University is a professional school, formally related to the United Methodist Church, that educates and trains women and men for a variety of Christian ministries in the church, the world, and the academy. In so doing, the Divinity School aims to form moral and intellectual character and to create a community of reflective theological discourse.
The Divinity School has an outstanding reputation and is highly respected among theological schools in the world. With this reputation comes, we believe, a responsibility (a calling, even) to help shape the landscape of theological education and all that it touches—pastors, congregations, communities, seminaries, and universities with an interest in theology, the church, and other religious institutions. The deep need for faithful leadership in the church, the world, and the academy is now intersecting in significant ways with the school’s increasing capacity to shape such leadership by the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. The Divinity School’s distinctive vocation is to equip students, clergy, and laity for faithful leadership and for critical reflection on the church, in service to the claims of Christ and in a dramatically changing global culture.
- Introduction
Aspiration and Direction
Internal and External Assessments
University Themes for Planning
Five-Year Goals for The Divinity School
Strategies for Goal Achievement
Financial Resources and Requests for University Support
Conclusion
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