Dear alumnae, alumni and friends of UTS, In 1996, the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE) accredited Unification Theological Seminary. Every ten years accredited institutions of higher education engage in an 18-24 month period of self-study and peer review, in order to demonstrate institutional compliance with various standards of accreditation.  In March 2013, UTS completed the self-study and hosted a MSCHE team visit. Following the on-site visit, the MSCHE evaluation team submitted its report to UTS, which prepared an institutional response. The institutional...

During a recent two-day visit to NYC and the UTS Extension Center in New York City Cabot Peterson, Assistant Director of Alumni Relations for UTS,  had the opportunity to visit some non-profit organizations in 4W43 Street that provide dedicated service and opportunities for people to volunteer, offering their time and talents to help others in need.  Cabot was able to visit several non-profits that are in the same building as the Unification Theological Seminary (UTS). In fact, the whole building at 4W43 is occupied by not-for-profit organizations: UTS shares the...

UTS administrators often attend Association of Theological Schools (ATS) events. Experience shows that it is important for UTS to stay current with the conversations which are part of the theological landscape in North America. Robin James Graham, UTS Director of Advancement and Communication The Association of Theological Schools (ATS) has published midpoint reflections on Educational Models project—peer groups share 10 themes. The 18 peer groups assembled for the Educational Models and Practices (EMP) project began their work at a forum in February 2016. Their work has...

On Saturday, December 10, UTS will be hosting an Open House at its extension center in Manhattan at 4W 43rd Street. This is an opportunity for prospective students to visit the urban campus a few steps off 5th Ave, where they can learn about the degree programs that UTS offers and meet with current students, staff and faculty. “Our seminary is one of the few accredited theological graduate schools in the United States that is interfaith,” according to Dr. Kathy Winings, UTS Vice President for Academic Affairs, who also noted the tremendous diversity of the student body. Founded by...

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.” Victor Hugo New York City — “Like everyone else, Muslims want peace and do not like extremists like the ISIS. But the mainstream media is not reporting our voices. It seems like we are quiet about extremism. But we are not,” said a Muslim leader here in an engaging forum with students of an interfaith seminary right in the heart of the city. In October, Imam Shamsi Ali discussed ways that challenge and counter religious extremism and radicalism in...

BARRYTOWN – As we approached our graduation from the Unification Theological Seminary (UTS) in the spring of 1992 most of us already had a strong suspicion we would be sent to Russia. The Berlin Wall had been shattered in 1989 and the communist world, tilting on the edge of an abyss, had split open like an overripe piece of fruit, just as the UTS, Founder, Rev. Sun Myung Moon, had predicted many years before. Since seminarians had already been in Russia for some time – and stood hand-in-hand with our new brothers and sisters when the military tried, and failed, to depose...

We are sad to announce that Dr. Dietrich Seidel (UTS’77), a professor at UTS for 12 years, passed on November 19 in San Diego with his family by his side. He had been suffering from leukemia for some time. Dietrich Seidel, DI. (M.S.), Ph.D. (UTS’77) was born in 1943, the middle of World War II, in the small Austrian town of Pernitz, in the Piesting valley, about 40 miles south of Vienna. Pernitz, especially the home for mothers in Feuchtenbach, was known for creating a new beginning for humanity by raising babies that came from selected parents. His German father,...

BARRYTOWN – The Unification Theological Seminary (UTS) is proud to announce that Dr. Kathy Winings, Vice-President for Academic Affairs at UTS has been elected to the position of Vice-President of the Religious Education Association (REA), at their Annual Meeting which was held recently in Pittsburgh, PA from November 4-6. The REA is an international, interfaith organization made up of more than 400 professors, practitioners and researchers dedicated to advancing ideas of religious teaching, research and scholarship in today’s world. This year’s REA conference was centered around the...