Continuing Education Grant Made
Diocesan Press Service. March 8, 1973 [73068]
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- A grant of $30,250 per year for three years will be made to the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in Berkeley, California by the Board for Theological Education of the Episcopal Church in America, for the development of a program of Continuing Education, according to the Rt. Rev. Ned Cole, President of the Board and Bishop of the Diocese of Central New York.
The grant will become effective next July and will provide for a full-time Director of Continuing Education and the development of a program for clergy and laity throughout the western states and Hawaii. Preliminary proposals call for residence programs at the campus in Berkeley; traveling seminars to be held in various cities and outlying areas; the development of a cassette and book loan library; and special weekend seminars at the Divinity School.
Resource persons will be drawn from the seminary faculty as well as from local areas where traveling seminars are being held. These persons will include experts in theology, the social sciences, business, medicine, law and various technical fields.
The purpose of the continuing education program is, according to Dr. Frederick Houk Borsch, Dean of the Divinity School, to utilize the resources of the seminary in order to deepen theological understanding for both clergy and laity, to further the professional skills of the clergy and update them in a number of areas of professional competence.