Union Theological Seminary Gets a New President
February 26, 2008 — JimThe New York Times is reporting
Union Theological Seminary in New York City named the Rev. Dr. Serene Jones, 48, as its new president, making her the first woman to hold the post in the institution’s 172-year history. Currently a professor of theology at Yale Divinity School and chairwoman of its department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Dr. Jones is only the fourth woman to run an independent, mainline school of theology in the country. In the case of Union, Dr. Jones is taking on an institution emerging from serious financial problems.
Congratulations to her, and here’s to hoping Union will move beyond it’s difficulties and be the astonishing bastion of theological scholarship it has been in its past.
February 26, 2008 at 9:28 am
Congratulations to Dr Jones, and even more so to Union! Their gain is Yale’s (undoubtedly sorely felt) loss, and that would be quite right–after all, given the breadth of her expertise and teaching, her shoes will be very hard to fill indeed.
I constantly return to her Calvin and Rhetoric as one of the finest and most useful volumes in Calvin studies.