Unify, clarify, and simplify strategic administrative functions to support OneRTS on a global platform while strengthening and empowering each campus to access the best resources to serve students with the best experience.
The focus of OneRTS began with the student and worked backward from that point. OneRTS exists to equip students to become future leaders for the Church of Christ. Their experience in seminary is formative and sets the direction for an entire lifetime of ministry. Toward that end, OneRTS seeks to strengthen and empower each campus with the very best resources so that all RTS students experience a dynamic experience of academic discipleship in every RTS class.
Improving Effectiveness
The structure of RTS must be improved to reflect an ease of use by all faculty, staff, and students. RTS will simplify, clarify, and modify organizational relationships and responsibilities within the multi-campus structure to better serve its constituencies. Redundancies will be eliminated, and systems will be created and/or reinforced that will establish understandable processes for who does what, when, and how? Decisional rights will be re-examined and re-assigned to remove the logjam caused by unnecessary bottlenecks of decisionmakers. Leaders will be empowered on each campus and expertise in operations will be centralized to better serve the students, faculty, and staff. The focus will be on efficiency – honing the operational vision toward tighter goals and processes.
Growing the Impact
RTS operates in a context of constant cultural change. The demands of theological education are fluctuating rapidly. Areas of administrative focus will work to efficiently organize to better execute daily tasks, annual goals, and measurable metrics to grow the institution. Development, marketing, admissions, and technology will work to create systems so that a central portal of activity will provide transparency and guidance for use at every level of the institution. Funding models will be re-examined and work will continue toward growing the student body, broadening the donor base, and extending the reach of RTS courses and resources to new audiences, locations, and modalities.
Spreading the Word
The quality of RTS’ professors is recognized internationally. New processes will amplify, clarify, and unify the messaging across the institution. Talking points, branding, and RTS platforms will be unified. Increased efforts to establish a marketing and communications regimen across the RTS enterprise will centralize some efforts and equip campuses for professional, disciplined, nimble communication on the local level.
Serving the Church
Reformed Theological Seminary exists to serve the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. The institution is founded on Holy Scripture, guided by the Westminster Standards, and remains true to the Reformed faith in holiness and humility. In an age of doctrinal slippage, speculation, and ecumenical downgrade, RTS desires to reaffirm its commitment to Reformed theology and use its every resource to teach the truth of Holy Scripture. Its campuses are a resource for the church as well as a destination for students from across the world.
Unify, clarify, and simplify strategic administrative functions to support OneRTS on a global platform while strengthening and empowering each campus to access the best resources to serve students with the best experience.
The focus of OneRTS began with the student and worked backward from that point. OneRTS exists to equip students to become future leaders for the Church of Christ. Their experience in seminary is formative and sets the direction for an entire lifetime of ministry. Toward that end, OneRTS seeks to strengthen and empower each campus with the very best resources so that all RTS students experience a dynamic experience of academic discipleship in every RTS class.
Improving Effectiveness
The structure of RTS must be improved to reflect an ease of use by all faculty, staff, and students. RTS will simplify, clarify, and modify organizational relationships and responsibilities within the multi-campus structure to better serve its constituencies. Redundancies will be eliminated, and systems will be created and/or reinforced that will establish understandable processes for who does what, when, and how? Decisional rights will be re-examined and re-assigned to remove the logjam caused by unnecessary bottlenecks of decisionmakers. Leaders will be empowered on each campus and expertise in operations will be centralized to better serve the students, faculty, and staff. The focus will be on efficiency – honing the operational vision toward tighter goals and processes.
Growing the Impact
RTS operates in a context of constant cultural change. The demands of theological education are fluctuating rapidly. Areas of administrative focus will work to efficiently organize to better execute daily tasks, annual goals, and measurable metrics to grow the institution. Development, marketing, admissions, and technology will work to create systems so that a central portal of activity will provide transparency and guidance for use at every level of the institution. Funding models will be re-examined and work will continue toward growing the student body, broadening the donor base, and extending the reach of RTS courses and resources to new audiences, locations, and modalities.
Spreading the Word
The quality of RTS’ professors is recognized internationally. New processes will amplify, clarify, and unify the messaging across the institution. Talking points, branding, and RTS platforms will be unified. Increased efforts to establish a marketing and communications regimen across the RTS enterprise will centralize some efforts and equip campuses for professional, disciplined, nimble communication on the local level.
Serving the Church
Reformed Theological Seminary exists to serve the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. The institution is founded on Holy Scripture, guided by the Westminster Standards, and remains true to the Reformed faith in holiness and humility. In an age of doctrinal slippage, speculation, and ecumenical downgrade, RTS desires to reaffirm its commitment to Reformed theology and use its every resource to teach the truth of Holy Scripture. Its campuses are a resource for the church as well as a destination for students from across the world.
Gaining Alignment
While many of RTS’ core educational systems continue to serve students well, new challenges and methods of teaching students have grown in ways that improve specific functions and institutional processes. The Strategic Planning Initiative (SPI) has been designed to align all aspects of the seminary experience in a student’s lifecycle. OneRTS is committed to the students of the Church, and every effort is made to enhance, support, and advance the formation of servants of the Word of God.
In the classroom, learning management systems and engagement technologies support quality teaching; in enrollment and institutional development, customer relationship management (CRM) tools optimize the processes for recruiting and outreach; in the world of student success and achievement, personalized advising and mentorship are designed to promote student advancement in their degree program. Mobile apps and media outreaches expand the influence of RTS and smart technologies enhance the campus experience. The SPI will also build dashboards and analytics suites to promote operational efficiencies along with digital document management software for compliance purposes at every level.
When faced with the challenges of improving access for students, sustaining the work of the seminary for future generations, and growing the institution’s endowment, strategic alignment across the campuses is critical.
OneRTS is the path toward a renewed focus on Serving the Church to the Glory of God.
Gaining Alignment
While many of RTS’ core educational systems continue to serve students well, new challenges and methods of teaching students have grown in ways that improve specific functions and institutional processes. The Strategic Planning Initiative (SPI) has been designed to align all aspects of the seminary experience in a student’s lifecycle. OneRTS is committed to the students of the Church, and every effort is made to enhance, support, and advance the formation of servants of the Word of God.
In the classroom, learning management systems and engagement technologies support quality teaching; in enrollment and institutional development, customer relationship management (CRM) tools optimize the processes for recruiting and outreach; in the world of student success and achievement, personalized advising and mentorship are designed to promote student advancement in their degree program. Mobile apps and media outreaches expand the influence of RTS and smart technologies enhance the campus experience. The SPI will also build dashboards and analytics suites to promote operational efficiencies along with digital document management software for compliance purposes at every level.
When faced with the challenges of improving access for students, sustaining the work of the seminary for future generations, and growing the institution’s endowment, strategic alignment across the campuses is critical.
OneRTS is the path toward a renewed focus on Serving the Church to the Glory of God.
Serving the Church, to the Glory of God
Reformed Theological seminary provides quality preparation by a world-class faculty for servants of the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The RTS faculty represents academic research and scholarship at the highest levels of thought and execution dedicated to serving the Church by preparing church leaders for twenty-first century challenges.
The RTS program of study is designed to train graduates to rightly understand and apply doctrinally precise methods and answers to modern issues.
The RTS educational experience is both personalized and communal; contemporary and historical; innovative and traditional.
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