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| Kathryn Kit Kleinhans just moved from Wartburg Seminary, relieving them of a big salary and benefits package. She is a Seminex graduate, a sure way to leverage one's career in ELCA. |
People around Columbus, Ohio identify Trinity (Cap Seminary) with Capital University, The ALC school, so it seems puzzling at first that they announced a grand new structure - Trinity Seminary at Capital University. What are we missing here?
The same thing has been going on with various ELCA seminaries short of funds, students, and grassroots support. Southern Seminary became part of a college, just as Pacific Seminary did. Trinity Seminary is losing a president but gaining a dean. Some might call it downsizing, just as Hartford Seminary in Connecticut became the Hartford Foundation for lack of students but a juicy endowment.
A God Who Engages the World?
The Rev. Dr. Stanley Olson, interim president of Trinity Lutheran Seminary, has known Kleinhans for many years, including his work with her during his days as president of Wartburg Theological Seminary. He described her as “one of our most-gifted advocates for seeing life as vocation.”
“Kit is intrigued with a God who engages the world – and with the world that God engages,” Olson said. “She has a heart for students, and will provide visionary and collaborative leadership for Trinity and Capital as they discover continuities and newness in their linked missions.”
Some readers will remember Stan Olson from serving as president of Wartburg Seminary for a short time and being my classmate at Yale for an even shorter time.
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| Stan Olson is the president of Capital seminary for five months, following the resignation of the previous president and preceding the enthronement of the new dean from Seminex. |
I am looking for some "thrilled and excited" news releases about Trinity Seminary. When leaders come and go so quickly, they are routinely thrilled and excited.
The news releases will never reveal the reason the ELCA seminaries are sinking faster than NFL ratings. Thirty years ago, Trinity Seminary took a lead in advising graduates about how to mislead examination committees about the issue.
Olson played a leading role in starting joint communion with the Reformed and changing the ELCA's watered-down Biblical standards for ordination and marriage to the extremes of the Left: at the 2009 ELCA convention. Even the retired ELCA bishops - six of them - left ELCA to start their own denomination.
Tuition at Trinity!!
TRINITY: COST OF ATTENDANCE 2017-18
| EXPENSE | ON CAMPUS | OFF CAMPUS |
|---|---|---|
| $37,170 | $20,840 | |
| Tuition | $17,640* | $8,820* |
| Books | 900 | 450 |
| Fee | 800 (estimate) | 400 (estimate) |
| Transportation | 3,198 | 4,263 |
| Personal/Misc | 5,172 | 6,896 |
| Room/Board | 9,449 | |
| Loan fee estimate | 11 | 11 |
* Tuition for Trinity Lutheran Seminary is $588 an hour. Many full-time students will take 30 hours in 9 months which will be $17,640.
The living expense budget is based on the college board moderate student expense budget for Cleveland-Elyria-Menter (sic - Mentor) OH.
The living expense budget is based on the college board moderate student expense budget for Cleveland-Elyria-Menter (sic - Mentor) OH.
