Research & Data

Recent Research by Christopher M. The

Enrollment and Demographics

• New students favoring full-time, on-campus engagement: what we’re learning from the fall 2025 ESQ, Colloquy, December 2025
• Average age of students rising: emerging opportunities for theological schools, Colloquy, November 2024
• Graduating Student Questionnaire reveals more about ATS graduates in third year of COVID-19, Colloquy, Summer 2022

Student Life

• Persistence under pressure: what the 2024–25 GSQ reveals about student life, work, and study, Colloquy, October 2025
• Calling and costs: educational debt and the class of 2024, Colloquy, September 2024
• [Anonymous]. “[Title: Redacted].” In Voices of the Mentored: Scholars of Color Speak: Reflections on Faculty Nurture and Guidance during Graduate School, edited by Charles H. Cosgrove. Decatur, GA: Forum for Theological Exploration, 2021

Formation and Well-Being

• Student Spiritual Formation Assessment in Theological Education: An Overview of Approaches, with Steven J. Sandage, Sarah A. Crabtree, Peter J. Jankowski, Starla Gooch, Laura B. Stein, David C. Wang, and Jo Ann Deasy, Journal of Spiritual Formation and Soul Care, 19 no. 1 (anticipated May 2026)
• Assessing student formation: a new overview of approaches and challenges, Colloquy, February 2026
• Examining the Health-Related Needs among a Multi-National Sample of Theological School Students, with Nathan West and Benjamin L. Webb, Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 59 (suppl), S1–S724, 2025

ATS Student Data Services

• Upcoming changes for ATS Student Questionnaires, Colloquy, January 2025
• ATS Student Questionnaires now available in four additional languages, Colloquy, September 2023
  • Also available: versión en español • 한국어 버전 • 中文繁體版本 • 中文简体版本
• Realigning rhythms to better meet student data needs, Colloquy, April 2023
• ATS Student Questionnaires enhance school strengths, with Elise W. Sutter, Colloquy, March 2023

Theological Education

• Review of Qualitative Research in Theological Education: Pedagogy in Practice, edited by Mary Clark Moschella and Susan Willhauck, in Religious Education 114, no. 4 (2019): 546–47
• Forum: Transformational Learning in Theological Schools, with Allan Harkness and John Falcone, in “Adult Theological Education,” special issue, Practical Theology 11, no. 4 (2018): 315–19
• First Impressions of a Lasting Legacy: The Aleshire Effect in Abbreviated Retrospective, Theological Education 52, no. 1 (2018): 27–32