Tenured Faculty and Board Members Must Be Church Members

[Key Guy]

"Tenured faculty and board members at all Seventh-day Adventist-owned educational institutions must now be Adventist church members in "good and regular standing," church leaders agreed today during an Annual Council meeting at world church headquarters.

In support of the motion limiting tenure and continuous teaching positions to Adventist faculty, several delegates felt it was difficult to transfer the mission and vision of the church to the next generation if professors at church institutions don't fully subscribe to church beliefs.

Despite general agreement to such sentiments, the motion did not pass without considerable discussion. Several delegates pointed out the difficulty of finding and hiring qualified Adventist faculty members, especially at medical educational institutions where highly specialized positions exist. Some even questioned the assumption that employees who are not church members could not adequately reflect Adventist values."

Full text.. http://news.adventist.org/data/2006/09/1160517023/index.html.en

[Gregory Matthews]

This may not be possible to enforce.

In some countries the government has the poster to order our schools to place peoply on the faculty.

As has been pointed out, we may not always have appropriate SDAs who can be hired.

[cricket]

What, exactly, constitutes "good standing"? Sounds like dangerous grounds to me.