UU seminaries receive grants from UUA; Shelter Rock 

May 15, 2009

Meadville Lombard received news recently that the UUA's Panel on Theological Education will recommend that, in addition to a basic grant of $190,000, both Meadville Lombard and Starr King School for the Ministry will receive an additional one-time grant of $25,000 in 2009/2010.
 
Further, Meadville Lombard recently received a first distribution from The Frank and Alice Schulman Professor of Unitarian Universalist Church History endowment that helps defray the costs of teaching UU history as we prepare to enter into search for that professorship. The school is grateful for the Schulman's gift that is a legacy to both of their dedication to preserving the past by providing the means for this history to be taught in perpetuity. We offer our thanks, too, to the UUA for its assistance in establishing this endowment and for their continued dedication to our UU identity-based schools.
 
The Unitarian Universalist Congregation at Shelter Rock through its Large Grants program has agreed to award a $200,000 grant to be split equally between Meadville Lombard Theological School and Starr King School for the Ministry. The grant is intended to assist both schools as they adopt and develop new educational models. Each school's model builds on its strengths and traditions and, collectively, they are designed to open UU theological education to serve a larger and more diverse student body, including UU seminarians at non-UU schools and to prepare excellent ministers for prophetic ministries in our congregations and communities.

The Shelter Rock Congregation has always been a supporter of new and innovative thinking and of this school; we are grateful for their continued and increased support of Unitarian Universalist and liberal religious theological education and look forward to sending them updates as we continue developing our educational model.

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