Melinda R. Heppe surveys different ways schools deal or do not deal with issues of fidelity. To what extent is your institution responsible for fostering virtue among its students? How can you appropriately encourage fidelity? What nonacademic admission standards are in place? How do you decide when a prospective student is “ready”?

Phyllis A. Tickle uses “cumulative literacy” to describe a mind-set, a context of circumstances, that both underly and result from the Information Age. In many fields, including theology, ordinary people now have access to unprecedented “banks of information” and can use them to reach their own conclusions. How does such empowerment change the relationship between lay and ordained? What is its effect on doctrine? Will popular theology affect your school’s curriculum? The numbered boxes in this article contain Phyllis Tickle’s own “footnote” additions, and the shaded areas at the bottom of pages 13-16 contain comments from four in the world of theological education.