Facing what some have termed a financial crisis, the board of trustees of the General Theological Seminary has suspended its search for a new dean and president and is looking for ways to cover the expense of the 2010-2011 school year.
Meanwhile, at the request of the trustees, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will convene a small group of advisors outside of General to address the seminary’s financial concerns. The group is meant to provide “fresh eyes and will serve in an advisory capacity,” according to the Rev. Dr. Charles Robertson, canon to the presiding bishop.
A roundtable discussion will take place this spring in an effort to “offer additional possibilities for General’s board of trustees to consider,” Robertson said in a news release due to be posted here.
The members of the group have not yet been chosen and their names will not be released prior to the meeting, he said.
Yet another wall of the New Thing is falling to dust.
What next? Another seminary or two? Another diocese? Twenty more parishes?
My company sheds this kind of failed leadership. But the fattened pensioned priests of this Church have it too good to push away from the table long enough to find out that the House is falling down around them. Absolutely astounding.
“Ewing noted that General’s largest financial asset is its land and buildings in Manhattan…”.
Well that’s what it’s all about anyway. Oh how TEC loves it’s property, even vacant!