Other Institutional Resources

Human

Kenrick School of Theology values and seeks to enhance the quality of the human lives it touches. It invests serious effort and energy in the processes by which persons are recruited, enabled to participate in the institution, nurtured in their development, and prepared for their various tasks. It maintains a commitment to procedural fairness and due process, and its policies proscribe invidious discrimination or harassment of any kind.

Kenrick School of Theology engages the numbers and qualities of persons needed to implement the programs of the school. The faculty and administration have already been briefly described. The seminary also maintains a staff of qualified support-staff personnel, maintenance personnel, housekeeping personnel, and kitchen personnel.

Financial

Kenrick School of Theology is governed by the principles of good stewardship in the planning, development, and use of its financial resources. These are deployed to support the purpose of the seminary effectively and to enable it to achieve its mission and goals.

Kenrick School of Theology maintains the purchasing power of its financial assets and the integrity and utility of its physical facilities. It maintains stable and predictable sources of revenue, sufficient to maintain the educational quality of the institution.

It projects prospective increases in revenue conservatively. It normally balances budgeted revenues and expenditures, while employing a prudent endowment spending rate. Kenrick School of Theology follows the principles and procedures for institutional accounting published by the National Association of College and University Business Officers. The Archdiocese of St. Louis is audited annually by an external, independent auditor, Deloitte and Touche LLP, in accordance with the generally recognized auditing standards for colleges and universities (not-for-profit organizations) as published by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. An annual financial report is available on request.

Kenrick ensures that revenues, expenditures, and capital projects are budgeted and submitted for review and approval by the Board of Trustees and the Board of Directors, clearly reflecting the directions of the strategic plan for the school. Such budgets are developed at the administrative level of the school in consultation with the administrators, staff, and faculty who bear responsibility for managing programs.

Kenrick School of Theology maintains an institutional advancement program, planned, organized, and implemented in ways congruent with the principles of the seminary. It includes annual giving, capital giving, and planned giving. This program is currently the direct responsibility of the President-Rector of the seminary, who works with an assisting full-time member of staff. The program also involves the Board of Trustees, the alumni, the faculty, the staff, and a number of volunteers. Advancement efforts are evaluated on an annual basis.

In all advancement work, Kenrick respects the intention of donors with regard to the use of their gifts. It also recognizes donors and volunteers in appropriate ways.

Physical

Kenrick School of Theology maintains for its programs a 200,000 square foot building constructed in 1931 according to the original design of architect Henry P. Hess.  It is located on 44 acres of ground in Shrewsbury, Missouri, adjacent to the southwest limits of The City of St. Louis.  The building contains administrative and faculty offices, 4 classrooms, a homiletics studio, 2 large meeting rooms, 1 small meeting room, a library facility, 3 chapels, 2 student lounges, a dining room and kitchen facility, a multipurpose auditorium, a gymnasium containing 2 raquetball courts, an excercise facility, 120 dormitory rooms for students, and 10  modest suites for residential faculty/administors, and 6 guestrooms.  The seminary grounds also contain outdoor tennis courts, 1 soccer field, 1 ball field, and an outdoor swimming pool.  All facilities are attractive and safe.  The building is partly accessible to persons in wheelchairs; the main floor, dormitories and office sections are entirely accessible.

Data

Kenrick School of Theology creates and maintains various kinds of institutional data, including assessment data, to determine the extent to which the institution is attaining its goals. It utilizes the most effective current technologies for creating, storing, and shipping this information, and shares appropriate information, within allowable limits, with other institutions and organizations.