Fuller Seminary to Leave Pasadena Campus. A challenging new landscape for Christian graduate education forces major moves

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Fuller Seminary
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“The decision to leave its main campus for a site in Pomona, California (about 30 miles away), follows downsizing efforts at the country’s largest multidenominational seminary, which last summer announced plans to close three of its eight satellite campuses and to cut degree options at two more. ‘In the last few years we have been through meticulous financial excavation, budget scrutiny, and painful cuts as we’ve navigated an increasingly challenging and disrupted higher education landscape,’ wrote Fuller president Mark Labberton in a letter released Tuesday.”

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Sun, 05/27/18 8:49 am

online degree programs are no longer a new frontier but now standard practice for a new generation of students without the finances, time, or denominational mandate to attend a full-time, in-person seminary program.

According to the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada (ATS), overall seminary enrollment underwent nearly a decade of decline before recently leveling out, as now more than two-thirds of seminaries have moved degree options online.

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