NASHVILLE, Tenn.
Minority teachers are underrepresented at theological schools and need more financial help and encouragement to become faculty, according to a prominent group of scholars dedicated to improving religious education.
Most teachers at theological schools are White men, and more than a third of the 253 U.S. and Canadian theological schools accredited by the Association of Theological Schools report they don’t even have a minority on their faculty.
Theology scholars from across the United States gathered this past weekend at Vanderbilt University for a meeting of the Fund for Theological Education, an Atlanta-based advocacy group that aims to grow the number of minorities in teaching positions at theological schools.
