April 11, 2008 == MEDIA ADVISORY
Summary: The Van Lunen Center for Executive Management in Christian Schools at Calvin College has announced its 2008-2009 fellows.
Full story and full list of fellows see http://www.calvin.edu/news/releases/2007-08/vanlunen.htm
JPGS and school affiliations of fellows, see http://www.calvin.edu/vanlunen/2008-fellows.html
The Van Lunen Center for Executive Management in Christian Schools at Calvin College has announced its 2008-2009 fellows.
The list includes educators from as far away as Japan and as near as Grand Rapids (William Haverkamp, superintendent of Calvin Christian schools, and Peter Vande Brake, headmaster of North Hills Classical Academy).
The Fellows program is designed for Christian school heads from the United States or Canada with fewer than 10 years experience in their position. The majority of participant expenses are covered by Van Lunen, including cost of instruction, travel, lodging, meals, coaching and access to topic experts.
The Van Lunen Center was established at Calvin in January 2007 courtesy of a $2 million gift to the college from the Richard D. Van Lunen Foundation. Its purpose is to provide world-class executive management education for senior leaders of schools based on the historic Christian faith (of which there are some 20,000 across the continent).
The Fellows program is a key part of that vision for Christian education. It is a selective one-year fellowship that, said Van Lunen Center director Shirley Roels, assists heads of Christian schools in refining the executive skills necessary for school management in the current competitive climate.
"Through case studies, reading, writing, interactive exercises, small group discussions, a school based project, and coaching," she said, "participants will deepen their own leadership, develop skills essential to the tasks of headship, and create deep relationships with peers and leaders."
The program begins with five residential days in July 2008, continues again in January for three days, and ends with three days in July 2009. Between sessions, coaching and support is available via phone and on-line tools.
The Van Lunen Center was established to serve faith-based schools large and small across the U.S. and Canada with a big-tent philosophy, reaching out to schools from a wide-range of faith traditions, including Catholic, evangelical Protestant, Episcopal, independent Christian, Lutheran and Reformed Christian day schools.
Contact Roels at roel@calvin.edu
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