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Kairos University

Denomination

North American Baptist Conference

Contact Information

Website:

https://kairos.edu/

Address:

2100 South Summit Avenue
Sioux Falls, SD 57105-2729 United States

Phone:

605-336-6588



Chief Executive Officer:

Gregory J Henson

Chief Academic Officer:

Larry W Caldwell

Accreditation Liaison Officer:

Shanda L Stricherz

ATS Commission Staff Liaison:

Stephen Graham

Enrollment/Faculty Information (reported Fall 2024)

Number of Students (FTE):

1157 (724.00)

Number of Full-Time Faculty (FTE):

14 (19.50)

Accreditation Information

Member Status:

Accredited in Good Standing

School's Statement of Educational Effectiveness


Year-Term of Next Comprehensive Accreditation Visit:

2029-fall


Approved Degree Programs:

MDiv, MA, MA in Counseling, MA in Leadership, MA in Marriage and Family Therapy, DMin, Doctor of Professional Counseling, PhD, ThD


Approval to Offer Distance (Online) Education:

Comprehensive (Half or More of a Degree)


Required Reports (Year-month and Topic):

2025-11 (Educational Experiment)


Additional Information:

In June 2022, the Board of Commissioners (BOC) approved the school (reaffirming the BOC’s action taken in June 2021) to offer the reduced-residency ThD program beginning in fall 2022 as an ongoing exception, based on the effectiveness of Evangelical Theological Seminary's four-year experiment (see Standard 5.15 and Policies and Procedures, IV.G.1), since Evangelical is now part of Kairos. Also in June 2022, the BOC approved the Doctor of Philosophy (see Standards 5.11-16) degree program as an ongoing exception with reduced residency (the same as the school’s already approved ThD program). In February 2024, the BOC approved an educational experiment to offer the seminary’s ThD and PhD programs with no residency requirement, utilizing videoconferencing to replace in-person residency intensives.


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