Columbia Receiving Wabash Center Archives

Continuing a long professional connection, the Columbia Theological Seminary (CTS) will become the home of the archival collection of the Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion, beginning on February 1, 2025.

Founded in 1996, the Wabash Center was established in Crawfordsville, Indiana, at Wabash College to enhance the teaching of religious and theological studies in higher education. The Wabash Center fulfills this mission by creating and curating educational resources, administering a regranting program, and convening cohort groups. 

The links between CTS faculty and the Wabash Center run deep, and over the decades, the Wabash Center has provided a space for CTS faculty to connect the classroom to the world. These opportunities support faculty’s pedagogical development, scholarly engagement, and service to the Seminary, Church, and community.

CTS President Victor Aloyo, Jr. remarked, “Columbia’s relationship with the Wabash Center has been an immense gift to our institution and especially our faculty. As we continue our forward-looking trajectory in pursuit of our mission and vision, we are delighted to be taking this next step in partnership with Wabash”.  

The Wabash Center previously supported CTS faculty with awards for more than 20 grant projects, such as Teaching as a Practice of Cross-Cultural Encounter, awarded to Dr. Marcia Riggs in 2004, and Centering the Community and Lived Experience in Classrooms, awarded to Dr. Sue Kim Park in 2022.

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