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         Nashville, Tenn. (615) 742-5470             Jan. 13, 1997

School accrediting body 
organizes for 1997-2000

                 by United Methodist News Service

     NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- United Methodism's accrediting panel for
schools, colleges, universities and seminaries has elected a
theological school dean as its president for 1997-2000.
     The Rev. Dennis Campbell, dean of the Divinity School, Duke
University, Durham, N.C., was elected president by the 25-member
United Methodist University Senate during its Jan. 9-10 meeting
here.
     Vice president is Thomas W. Cole Jr., president of Clark
Atlanta University, Atlanta.  Recording secretary is Wanda
Bingham, president of Huntingdon College, Montgomery, Ala.
     The senate, an affiliate of the denomination's Board of
Higher Education and Ministry, was established by the Methodist
General Conference of 1892. It is mandated by church law to
monitor, evaluate and approve the 124 colleges, universities,
preparatory and theological schools related to the 8.6 million-
member denomination.
     Senate members named by Campbell to head standing commissions
are: Institutional Review,  Ann H. Die, president of Hendrix
College, Conway, Ark.; Theological Education, Bishop Neil Irons,
Harrisburg (Pa.) Area; Black Colleges, David Beckley, president of
Rust College, Holly Springs, Miss.; Preparatory Schools, John R.
Eidam, director of admissions, Wyoming Seminary, Kingston, Pa.
     The majority of the senate members are professional educators
and administrators at United Methodist-related institutions of
higher education.
     The 1996 General Conference last April in Denver, elected
eight people to the senate. Four additional members were elected
at the Senate's organizational meeting. They are: William R.
Haden, president of West Virginia Wesleyan College, Buckhannon,
W.Va.; Kirk Treible, president of Andrew College, Cuthbert, Ga.;
Mark Collier, vice president of academic affairs, Baldwin-Wallace
College, Berea, Ohio; and Robert Griffith, provost at American
University, Washington, D.C. 
     Between orientation and organizing sessions, senate members
discussed how the denomination's new orders of elder and deacon
adopted by the 1996 General Conference would impact its work.
     Lead by the Rev. Roger Ireson, the Rev. James E. Harnish and
Jimmy Carr, all staff executives with the Board of Higher
Education and Ministry, the senate members were told that the area
of its work most affected would be within its commission on
theological education.  
     According to Ireson, the senate will have to monitor the
seminaries' programs to fulfill the educational requirements for
deacons and review continuing education programs through its
commission on theological education.
     Harnish told the senate members that General Conference
action established "radical changes" in the nature of annual
conferences -- the basic unit of Methodism. He said that the
meaning of ordination has been "redefined" and now focuses on two
distinct orders. Ordination, in the past was tied to sacramental
rites but General Conference gave it a much broader meaning --
elders are ordained to service, word, sacrament and order and
deacons are ordained to word and service.
     The implications for the senate, Harnish said, will occur in
how it reviews both United Methodist and non-United Methodist
schools that train people for ordained ministry. 
     Last year, Campbell announced his intention to step down as
dean of Duke Divinity School at the end of the 1996-97 academic
year. After a year-long sabbatical, he will return to a full-time
faculty post there. He said that leaving the dean's position will
allow him to devote more time to duties as the senate's president.
     The senate's next meeting is June 17-18 at Boston University.
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NOTE TO EDITORS: University Senate members for 1997-2000 are:
David Beckley, Holly Springs, Miss.
Wanda Bingham, Montgomery, Ala.
Jerry Boone, Ferrum, Va.
Dennis Campbell, Durham, N.C.
Thomas W. Cole Jr., Atlanta, Ga.
Mark Collier, Berea, Ohio
James A. Davis, Winchester, Va.
Ann H. Die, Conway, Ark.
Robert W. Edgar, Claremont, Calif.
John R. Eidam, Kingston, Pa.
George D. Fields, Spartanburg, S.C.
Robert Griffith, Washington, D.C.
Justo Gonzales, Decatur, Ga.
William R. Haden, Buckhannon, W.Va.
George M. Harmon, Jackson, Miss.
Willa Bing Harris, Montgomery, Ala.
Ellen Hurwitz, Reading, Pa.
Bishop Neil Irons, Harrisburg, Pa.
Harold Kolenbrander, Alliance, Ohio
R. Kevin LaGree, Atlanta, Ga.
Shirley A.R. Lewis, Augusta, Ga.
Peter T. Mitchell, Columbia, S.C.
Bishop Marshall (Jack) Meadors Jr., Jackson, Miss.
Kirk Treible, Cuthbert, Ga.
Lovett H. Weems Jr., Kansas City, Mo.

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