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Nashotah House graduates first class of distance learners
Instituted in 2006, and accredited by the American Association of Theological Schools, the two-year degree program provides online students with classical training in the disciplines of Biblical Studies, Theology, Moral Theology, Contemporary Society, Pastoral Ministry and Liturgy. It also includes one week of intensive study on campus each quarter, when the students experience the community life, spiritual disciplines and daily worship of Nashotah House. Two classes of 15 students each, scheduled to complete their degrees in 2009 and 2010 respectively, follow Nashotah House's first distance-learning cohort.
"We are very proud of this class, both for who they are and what they offer our church, and for what they have meant to us," said the Very Rev. Robert S. Munday, dean and president of Nashotah House. "Theological education in the United States is changing, and the needs of our students are changing. This distance-learning program allows us to respond to students who cannot relocate for an entire two- or three-year degree program, while remaining true to our own distinctive ethos and tradition -- and communicating it to another generation."
During the October 29 convocation ceremony, Barbara Marquart Burton was awarded a Doctor of Music degree, honoris causa. Honorary Doctor of Divinity Degrees were awarded to Bishop William Godfrey of Peru; the Very Rev. Chad Marvin Richard Hatfield, chancellor of St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in Crestwood, New York, and a graduate of Nashotah House; and the Rev. Professor Stephen Follmer Noll, chancellor of Uganda Christian University, who preached at the event.
Further information about the M.A. in Ministry degree program, and other graduate and post-graduate programs at Nashotah House, is available by contacting the Director of Admissions, Dr. Carol Klukas, by phone at 262-646-6547 or by email at register@nashotah.edu.
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