Search for Next President
12-11-2023
McCormick Theological Seminary (“McCormick”) is looking for its next President. McCormick seeks a leader with imagination, courage and compassion, high standards, and humility. The successful candidate will succeed David H. Crawford, McCormick’s 11th President who is retiring after leading McCormick through both the pandemic and a transformational period in its history.
El Seminario Teológico McCormick (“McCormick”) está buscando su próximo presidente. McCormick busca un líder con imaginación, valor y compasión, altos estándares y humildad. El candidato seleccionado sucederá a David H. Crawford, el undécimo presidente de McCormick, quien se jubila después de liderar a McCormick tanto durante la pandemia como durante un período de transformación de su historia.
This is an exciting moment in McCormick’s long and rich history. This fall, McCormick moved into its new home on the campus of the Catholic Theological Union along with its long-time neighbor, the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. McCormick continues to serve as a model for building communities of students, faculty, and staff with different backgrounds, geographies, viewpoints, and traditions to learn from and with each other as part of a dynamic and close-knit community. McCormick prepares students for leadership across a wide range of ministry, advocacy, community, public service, and organizational contexts.
The successful candidate will have a demonstrated track record of strategic and effective organizational leadership as well as a deep and abiding alignment with McCormick’s mission and commitments as a progressive Christian center for theological education. Furthermore, the successful candidate will have the demonstrated skills and experience to provide transformative and forward-looking leadership to McCormick in light of the significant shifts in the broad landscape of theological education, religious life, and society at large.
McCormick has retained Isaacson, Miller, a national executive search firm, to assist in the search. All confidential applications, inquiries, and nominations can be sent electronically, in confidence to:
https://www.imsearch.com/open-searches/mccormick-theological-seminary/president
McCormick Seminary will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, national origin, age, religion, disability status, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, veteran status, or other protected status. Also, the Seminary will not discriminate against individuals with disabilities provided those disabilities do not impede their ability to perform the duties of his or her assigned job.
David H. Crawford,
McCormick’s 11th President