There seems to be no funding for the institution. If it is not enrolling students and running classes, it is dead and a fiction in my book.
The following statement (from the website I cited above) on the situation says it all:
The following document, the Statement of Educational Purpose (sometimes referred to, for no special reason, as the “Red Book”) of Transfiguration College, was drawn up in the summer of 2006 by a group of educators who were working to start up a great books college in the Chicago area. (See its website here.) The idea was that the college should embody both a dialogic, great books education, on the one hand, and elements of Eastern Christian tradition — in particular, a serious study of the writings of the Church Fathers — on the other. It was to be an ecumenical venture under Eastern Catholic auspices, and had the blessing both of Bp. John Michael Botean of the Romanian Catholic Church and of the late Archbp. Vsevolod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA. The hope was that it would be a place where Orthodox and Catholics could learn to engage in informed theological dialogue while at the same time receiving a solid training in the liberal arts. Unfortunately, the project proved unable to find the necessary funding; its development, as its website states, is “currently on hold.” Since I had a significant hand in the writing of the following document, and since the hope is still not completely extinguished that the college might eventually take concrete shape in some form, I thought I would publish this statement here.
Last edited by johnzonaras; 10/09/10 03:22 PM.
