September 10, 2021
2019
United Church of Christ pastor and theologian David M. Mellott is named CTS president.
September 10, 2021
2016
CTS launches the first-of-its-kind PhD degree program in African American Preaching and Sacred Rhetoric.
September 10, 2021
2012
The Trustees adopt a resolution making CTS “open and affirming,” committed to the full inclusion of the LGBTQ community.
September 10, 2021
2003
CTS reaches goals of diversifying the administration, faculty, staff, and student body.
September 10, 2021
1997
Edward Wheeler—an African American Baptist churchman and educator—is appointed as president of CTS.
September 10, 2021
1988
CTS sets goal to diversify the administration, faculty, staff and student body by 2000.
September 10, 2021
1980s
CTS re-casts itself as an ecumenical seminary with an historic and on-going relationship with the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
September 10, 2021
1979
Sue Webb Cardwell is appointed the first woman to serve on the regular, full-time faculty of CTS. The appointment of…
September 10, 2021
1971
CTS begins offering graduate degree programs in pastoral care and counseling. Methodist theologian Willie White becomes the first African American…
September 10, 2021
1970s
A “new ethos” develops at CTS, emphasizing the church’s active engagement with contemporary issues and social scientific approaches to the…
