Research & Data

Recent Research by Deborah H. C. Gin

Initiatives

• Growth in non-degree programs is not without its challenges, with Meryl Herr, Colloquy, December 2025
• Reimagining the Role of Graduate Theological Education in Clergy Formation, with Jo Ann Deasy and Grego Peña-Camprubí, Christian Higher Education, 24, vol. 2 (2025)
• Mission, Models, and Money: An Empirical Analysis of Graduate Theological Education, with Chris A. Meinzer, Christian Higher Education, 24, vol. 2 (2025)
• Financial viability: Is that educational program worth it? with Chris A. Meinzer, Colloquy, November 2024
• Mapping the workforce of ATS grads: have jobs and needs changed? Colloquy, September 2024
• What do alums wish they had learned in seminary? with Judith C. P. Lin, Colloquy, October 2020
• Luce Fellowship’s quarter-century impact on the public square, with Judith C. P. Lin, Colloquy, Summer 2020
• Why the "Science for Seminaries" Initiative? in “Science and Theological Education: Reports from the Field,” Spotlight on Theological Education, an annual series of Religious Studies News, May 2019
• Forum on Seminary Teaching and Formation Online, with Barbara Blodgett and Brooke Lester, Teaching Theology and Religion, January 2019
• Mapping the workforce: what competencies do ATS alums need? Colloquy, September 2018
• Four points to consider for international partnerships, Colloquy, February 2018
• Three practices to promote your DMin program, Colloquy, January 2018
• Engaging Science in Seminaries: A View from Faculty, with Jonathan P. Hill, Theological Education 50, no. 2 (2017)
• The Educational Models and Practices project: 10 things we’ve learned so far, with Eliza Smith Brown, Colloquy, October 2015

Institutions

• Changing students, changing institutions: four early findings on student demographic change and institutional capacity, with Grego Peña-Camprubí, Colloquy, August 2026
• Insights on technology leadership at ATS schools, with Lisa Kern, Colloquy, February 2024
• Predicting school closures and mergers among the ATS membership, Colloquy, May 2020
• Changing landscapes — insights from ATS studies on leadership, with David C. Wang, Colloquy, April 2020
• How ATS schools are responding to COVID-19 crisis, Colloquy, April 2020
• The priorities you named, Colloquy, Summer 2019
• ATS Board of Commissioners approves new data sharing policy, Colloquy, Summer 2018
• Good, Fast, Cheap: How Centers of Teaching and Learning Can Capitalize in Today's Resource‐Constrained Context, with Stephanie Juillera and Michael H. Truong, To Improve the Academy 35.1 (2016): 180–95

Faculty

• ATS study on contingent faculty: update on the faculty model, with Grego Peña-Camprubí, Colloquy, April 2025
• ATS shares early findings about contingent faculty, Colloquy, February 2024
• Why You Do What You Do: The Power in Knowing and Naming Pedagogies, with Mark Chung Hearn, Teaching Theology and Religion, January 2019
• Embracing Diversity: Two Models of Faculty Engagement, Theological Education, 52, no. 1 (2018)
• Faculty development: Perk or priority? with Stacy Williams-Duncan, In Trust, Summer 2018
• Three Insights about Faculty Development in Theological Education, with Stacy Williams-Duncan, Theological Education 50, no. 2 (2017)
• Faculty perceptions about their work: Four snapshots of faculty in ATS schools, with Stacy Williams-Duncan, Colloquy, January/February 2016

Race

• Ruth: Identity and Leadership from Multivocal Spaces (Reprint with Epilogue), ChristianityNext, Winter 2024
• Embracing Diversity: Two Models of Faculty Engagement, Theological Education 52, no. 1 (2018)
• How well are we doing on race? A realistic assessment rooted in research, Colloquy, Summer 2018
• ATS Work through the Committee on Race and Ethnicity, 2000–2014, with Willie James Jennings, Theological Education 50, no. 2 (2017)
• Loving My Neighbor, Strength to Be Holy, (D. Thorsen, Ed.) Lexington, KY: Emeth Press, 2014.
• Does Our Understanding Lack Complexity? Faculty Perceptions on Multicultural Education, Theological Education 48, no. 1 (2013)

Gender

• Imagining a More Equal Pulpit: Realities from Research, ChristianityNext, Winter 2020
• Strategic Relationships to Advance Women Leaders: Skills, Advocates, and Organizational Climate, ATS Women in Leadership: Celebrating Twenty Years, 2020
• What about the salary gap in theological education? with Chris A. Meinzer, In Trust magazine, Spring 2019
• Getting there: seven practices to support successful women in theological education, Colloquy, March 2019
• Women in Leadership survey: what we found may not be what you think, Colloquy, June 2018
• Women in ATS schools: 8 data points for conversation, with Chris A. Meinzer, Colloquy, March 2017