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Campbell announces 2011 retirement plans

Cynthia Campbell, the president of McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago for the past 15 years, has announced that she will retire by the end of 2011.

Campbell is the seminary’s ninth president and is currently the longest-serving seminary president at any of the 10 Presbyterian seminaries.

Campbell informed the seminary’s Board of Trustees of her plans at the board’s May meeting. She also said that, in the time remaining in her tenure, she wants to work to support programs at the seminary developed to meet new leadership needs, including, for example, certificate programs in executive leadership and in environmental ministry, and programs in discipleship development, and urban ministry.

A PC(USA) minister, Campbell earned her master of divinity degree from Harvard University and a doctorate from Southern Methodist University. She has served on a series of denominational committees and task forces, including the Special Committee of Fifteen, which prepared the text of the Brief Statement of Faith.

Trustees will begin searching for a new president this summer.

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