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CLEVELAND (UMNS) - General Conference delegates elected four people to the
peer review organization of United Methodist academic and theological
institutions.

The four, each with ties to academia, were elected May 9 to the 25-member
University Senate. The senate was established by the Methodist General
Conference of 1892 and is an affiliate of the denomination's Board of Higher
Education and Ministry. It monitors, evaluates and approves the 123
colleges, universities, preparatory and theological schools related to the
denomination. Most of the senate's members are professional educators and
administrators at United Methodist-related institutions of higher education.

The new members are Trudie Kibbe (Preciphs) Reed, president of Philander
Smith College, Little Rock, Ark.; the Rev. David Maldonado, the newly
appointed president of Iliff School of Theology, Denver; Maxie D. Dunnam,
president of Asbury Theological Seminary, Wilmore, Ky.; and Charlene Black,
associate vice president for academic affairs and dean at Georgia Southern
University, Statesboro, Ga.

In other matters related to education, delegates on May 8 approved a
resolution authorizing the United Methodist Board of Higher Education and
Ministry to develop an endowment fund for the 11 historically black colleges
and universities of the United Methodist Church. Currently, the academic
institutions collectively share an endowment of $205 million. The action by
the General Conference mandates the development and implementation of
25-year plan to raise $300 million in endowment funds. Private programs
under the leadership of the churchwide Board of Higher Education and
Ministry will raise the funds. 
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--Linda Green

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