New Functional Organization to Replace President's Leadership Team

As of August 3, 2009, the following changes were made to the president's organizational structure: the Executive Leadership Team has been added and the Educational, Operating, and Strategy teams will be organized by the appropriate member of the President's Cabinet.

Since July, President Barnes has worked to organize his administration and the university governance structure in a way that fosters collaboration to address university concerns.

As a result he has directed a shift from meetings emphasizing information-sharing to those involving stakeholders in significant engagement with problems or tasks. At the Board of Trustees level, President Barnes and Board Chair Dan Lindh led a restructuring of committees along functional lines. Instead of two separate committees to address university academic programs, for instance, the board now has a single Academic Programs Committee and has initiated a Co-Curricular Programs Committee. Within the administration, President Barnes proposed the single-provost model, with leaders across all units sitting down together to address issues.

At the president’s direction, this effort is being extended to the functional organization of the administration in order to approach opportunities and challenges in ways that cut across the silos of seminary, college, adult, and graduate education. This new functional organization establishes working groups that will replace the President’s Leadership Team, which has had a largely information-sharing purpose, with task groups that have a more directed focus. While the working groups may meet together in something like the current Leadership Team, such meetings will be on an as-needed basis. Teams may add additional individuals as consultants for specific topics under discussion. More information on the various groups is available below.

+ President's Cabinet

+ Educational Team

+ Operating Team

+ Strategy Team