Research & Data

Author: Tom Tanner

Enrollment Trends

• Reports of the MDiv's death are greatly exaggerated, Colloquy Online, January 2019
• Placements: The impact of unknowns on the total picture, Colloquy Online, April 2016
• What a difference a decade makes: As seminaries reverse a 10-year enrollment decline, what does the future hold? Colloquy Online, March 2016
• Why 100 ATS member schools have grown, Colloquy Online, March 2015
• Seminaries set six enrollment records, Colloquy Online, February 20, 2015

Online Education

• Teaching online in the age of COVID-19: three findings from ATS survey, Colloquy Online, Spring 2020
• Being where? The shift from onsite to offsite to online education, Colloquy Online, Summer 2018
• (Not) being there: The Auburn study of online distance education, ATS Blog post, December 15, 2017
• Online learning at ATS schools: Part 2 — Looking around at our present, Colloquy Online, March 2017
• Online learning at ATS schools: Part 1 — Looking back at our past, Colloquy Online, February 2017

Faculty Trends

• Tenure and other faculty facts at ATS member schools, Part 2, Colloquy Online, August 20, 2015
• Tenure and other faculty facts at ATS member schools, Part 1, Colloquy Online, June 26, 2015

General Use of Data

• If we have data, let's look at data. If all we have are our opinions, let's go with mine, ATS Data Matters Blog post, December 13, 2015
• The danger of “easy” data: Four troubling numbers in our future, ATS Data Matters Blog post, January 20, 2017