Pacific School of Religion reconsiders the traditional model of receiving and delivering instruction.

The Rev. David Vasquez-Levy, D.Min., is president of Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley, California. In an In Trust Center podcast, he talked about his school’s efforts to make theological education accessible and affordable, saying this about the traditional system of higher education:

“I and others have referred to it in this way, as trickle-down academics. You invest massive amounts of resources on a small group of absolutely excellent people defined in very particular ways that actually are very oriented to traditional understandings of education and learning.

"And you pour a lot of resources into them in the hopes that that their knowledge will trickle down into the system. The reality is that it hasn’t happened, right?

“The knowledge of many communities has not made its way into the transformative realities of our society.”

Listen to Episode 76 of the Good Governance podcast at intrust.org.