August 14, 2024 4:30 pm (Eastern)
Our Mission
Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School forms students in theological and multi-religious studies to serve, care, and advocate for all peoples and the earth.
Our Vision Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School will be faithful to its distinctive Christian identity as the institution becomes a seminary of and for the community, committed to practices of peace, service, and justice.
Our Core Values
Community Collaboration Compassion
Flexibility Respect
Prelude/Processional
Call to Worship
2024 Convocation ORDER OF SERVICE Invocation
Opening Hymn: “How Great Thou Art”
Rev. Jacqueline J. Nelson DirectorforStudentSupportServices CoordinatorforSpiritualCare Director,BlackReligiousThoughtandLife(BRTL)
Rev. Shazetta Thompson-Hill, D.Min. DirectorforStrategicInitiatives FacultyAffiliate
Brother Marvin Rogers Sister Joan Lane MemorialAMEZionChurch,Rochester,NY
Welcome
Greetings
Hymn: “Blessed Assurance”
Remarks
Rev. Angela D. Sims, Ph.D. CRCDSPresident JohnPriceCrozerProfessorofSocialEthics
Rev. Fred Jeff Smith Chair,BoardofTrustees
Brother Marvin Rogers Sister Joan Lane
Rev. Melanie Duguid-May, Ph.D. VicePresidentforAcademicAffairs&DeanofFaculty ProfessorofTheology
Old Testament Reading Psalm 46: 10 - 11
New Testament Reading Romans 12: 1 - 2
Rev. Constance Seifert DoctorofMinistryStudent
Sammy Parnell MasterofDivinityStudent
Special Music: “Total Praise”
2024 Convocation Convocation Address The Big Questions
Song: “The Blood Will Never Lose Its Power”
Litany of Prayer and Commitment
Holy Communion
Closing Song: “How Great is Our God”
Brother Marvin Rogers
Sister Joan Lane
Rev. Dr. Michael J. Ford, CRCDS ‘12 SeniorPastor LakeAvenueMemorialBaptistChurch
Brother Marvin Rogers Sister Joan Lane
Rev. Cindy Rasmussen, Ph.D.
AssistantProfessorofPublicTheologyandEco-Justice intheMartinLutherKing,Jr.Professorship DirectoroftheProgramforAnglicanStudies
Declaration of the Beginning of the Academic Year
Benediction
Recessional/Postlude
Rev. Melanie Duguid-May, Ph.D.
Brother Marvin Rogers
Sister Joan Lane
Rev. Angela D. Sims, Ph.D.
Rev. Dr. Michael J. Ford, CRCDS ‘12
Governing Trustees Rev. Brent Bowden
Rev. Julius D. Jackson (CRCDS ‘13)
Rev. Dr. Michael S. Laver (CRCDS '17)
Rev. Beverly Murrell-Frasier (CRCDS '20)
Mr. Patrick R. ("Ricky") Pearce, Jr.
Rev Karen Rucks-Walker, Th D
Rev. Fred Jeff Smith, Chair
Rev. Paul Vick (CRDS ‘71)
President
Rev. Angela D. Sims, Ph.D.
President
Executive Leadership Team
Rev. Paula B. Blue
CRCDS Community Life Trustees Rev. Margaret Cowden, Ph.D.
Rev. Larry W. Dobson (CTS ‘65)
Ms. Mary Ann Geib (CRDS ’64)
Mr. Preston T. Henderson
Mr. Jay T. Holmes
Mr Jack F Kraushaar
Ms. Gloria M. Langston
Annie Marie LeBarbour, Ph.D.
Rev. J. Wendall Mapson
Dr. James G. Miller
Mr. Thomas S. Richards
Mr. Thomas A. Tupitza
Rev. Frank D. Tyson (CTS ’69)
Rev. Dr. W. Kenneth Williams (CRDS ‘76)
Faculty Emeritus Vice President for Institutional Effectiveness and Chief Operating Officer
Rev. Melanie A. Duguid-May, Ph.D.
Vice President for Academic Affairs, Dean of Faculty, and Professor of Theology
Ms. Kara C. Gilliard
Vice President for Finance and Administration
Courtney Wiley-Harris, D.Min.
Vice President for Institutional Advancement
Rev. Dr. H. Darrell Lance Professor of Old Testament 1965-1993
Rev. Gail A. Ricciuti, D.D. Associate Professor of Homiletics 1998-2016
Rev. John R. Tyson, Ph.D. Professor of Church History & Director of Methodist Studies 2012-2022
Faculty
Jin Young Choi, Ph.D.
CRCDS Community Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins, Baptist Missionary Training School Professorial Chair in Biblical Studies
Rev. Melanie A. Duguid-May, Ph.D. Professor of Theology
Rev. Cindy Rasmussen, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Public Theology & Eco-Justice in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Professorship and Director of the Program for Anglican Studies.
Hilary Jerome Scarsella, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Ethics & Theological Studies in the Gosnell Chair of Christian Ethics Director of Gender, Sexual, and Racial Justice (GSRJ)
Rev. Angela D. Sims, Ph.D.
John Price Crozer Professor of Social Ethics
Faculty Affiliate Rev. Shazetta Thompson-Hill, DMin.
Director of Strategic Planning
Faculty Affiliate in the Woelfkin Professorship of Preaching and the Eli Perry Professorship of Sacred Rhetoric of Homiletics
Staff
Ms. Polly Bush Manager of Development and Institutional Advancement
Ms. Lydia Crim Executive Administrator to the President and Office Manager
Ms. Patricia Finnerty Reference Librarian
Ms. Angelina Hoppough Staff Accountant
Ms. Qhamora Kimbrough Registrar and Coordinator of Financial Aid
Rev. Jacqueline J. Nelson Director for Student Support Services Director of Black Religious Life and Thought (BRTL)
Mr. David R. Riddell Senior Director of Advancement and Communications
Ms. Robin Sheikh Administrator and Office Manager for Institutional Effectiveness
Ms. Tamisia A. White Director of Enrollment Services and Financial Aid
2024 - 2025 FACULTY AFFILIATES
Mark Arnold, Ph.D.
Rev. Dr. Leslie D. Callahan
Rev. Dr. Brandon Crowley
Rev. Karen D. Crozier, Ph.D.
Rev. Dr. Jamie Eaddy-Chism, CRCDS '20
Rev. Roberto Che Espinoza, Ph.D.
Dr. Alana D. Fields
Bishop E. Anne Henning Byfield, D.Min.
Andriette Jordan-Fields, Ph.D.
Rev. Marvin McMickle, Ph.D.
Rev. Jacqueline J. Nelson
Rev. Canon Robert A. Picken
Natasha L. Robinson, J.D.
Prof. Michael L. Sekuras
Jessica Shand, M.D.
Rabbi Peter W. Stein
Rev. JJ Warren
Rev. Dr. Reginald Williams, Jr.
Rev. Jess Winderweedle
Michael Woodcock, Ph.D.
