Caroline McCall MTS ’15 Is New Field Education Director
Dean Mark Richardson has announced that Caroline McCall MTS ‘15, will join CDSP as director of field education and lecturer in congregational studies in mid-November.
“We have created this new half-time position to integrate field placement more fully into our new curriculum, which requires that our students spend two full years in such placements,” Richardson wrote to the CDSP community. “We also want to meet low residence students’ need for expertise and support during field placements in their local communities. Having a half-time faculty person dedicated to the work will ensure we can do so. Caroline will be fully included in the life of the faculty, and will participate in faculty meetings, advising, and worship. We are eager to have her on campus.”
Since 2000, McCall has been an independent consultant providing leadership coaching and development, organizational planning, and board development to Episcopal dioceses and congregations and other not-for-profit groups. She is a member of the Diocese of Olympia’s College for Congregational Development and an active leader in the Diocese of California and at All Souls’ Parish in Berkeley.
“In my work as a consultant, coach, and trainer in the Episcopal Church, I have heard numerous clergy remark that they would have benefitted from more seminary course work in organization and congregational development,” McCall said. “I am very excited to share my expertise and experience in these areas with CDSP students and with the congregations and organizations they serve.”
McCall will join CDSP quarter-time in mid-November to spend time arranging field education opportunities for the 2017-2018 academic year and working with low-residence students who will be preparing for field education when they are on campus in January 2017. She will take up her duties half-time on July 1, 2017.
Richardson also announced that Dr. Rod Dugliss, dean of the School for Deacons, will finish his work with CDSP’s field education students at the end of the 2016-2017 academic year. “We are grateful for his four years of work at CDSP, during which more than 60 students benefitted from his counsel and care during their field education” Richardson said. “We will find time next year to celebrate Rod’s work at CDSP and to thank him for the gifts he has shared with so many of us, students and faculty alike.”