Recognized For Excellence in Harvard Study
UU ministers are educated at more than 70 different seminaries, yet Starr King School stands out as the school that produces ministers of the highest quality, according to a 2007-2008 Harvard Divinity School Study.
In a study, commissioned by the Panel on Theological Education, long-time Unitarian Universalist officials were asked for a list of the ministers within the UU movement whom they would characterize as excellent. Of the nine who were named most often -- and later interviewed -- seven were graduates of Starr King. The study's lead researcher, Dudley C. Rose, found that excellent ministers tended to be those with multifaceted qualities, including openness to criticism and making mistakes, willingness to admit what they did not know and comfort in one's own skin.
The study showed that graduates of Starr King served more UU congregations for longer tenures than graduates of any other seminary, and that Starr King grads served more of the largest UU congregations than any other seminary.
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