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Dr. Julius S. Scott, Jr. Photo courtesy of Paine College. On August 1, the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry (GBHEM) said goodbye to another longtime member of its education family. Dr. Julius S. Scott, Jr., the agency’s former associate general secretary for the Division of Higher Education, passed...

Rev. Dr. F. Thomas Trotter. Photo courtesy of Claremont School of Theology. Rev. Dr. F. Thomas Trotter, the former general secretary of the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry (GBHEM), died peacefully on July 26, 2019 at the age of 93. Trotter was known as a visionary leader throughout...

The General Board of Higher Education and Ministry (GBHEM) serves a modern global audience, helping Methodists around the world discover, claim and flourish in God’s call on their lives. Our website, gbhem.org, is a crucial point of communication between our agency and the many clergy, students and educators we assist....

By Jessica Love Accepted to 25 prestigious universities and awarded nearly one million dollars in scholarship money, Frederick Uy chose to attend Claflin University in Orangeburg, South Carolina for one reason. “It was the tone of the conversation,” Uy said. “I had visited several university orientations and the content was...

By Jessica Love ViaFaith McCullough As the daughter of two United Methodist pastors, ViaFaith McCullough has attended her fair share of annual conferences. None of them, however, impacted her as profoundly as her first conference visit as a newly-trained Lina H. McCord intern for the Black College Fund. In the...

By Jessica Love Langston Carter-Price Dillard University sophomore Langston Carter-Price struggled to manage classes and engage in extracurricular activities while working twenty hours a week. His renewed faith, however, led him to the Black College Fund.  “Financially, I was struggling…I was ready to quit,” he said. That is when Rev....

Methodist educational leaders from around the globe gathered at the Carter Center in Atlanta on Tuesday evening to honor the achievements of Rev. Dr. James T. Laney, President Emeritus of Emory University. Laney is the inaugural recipient of the Global Ethical Leadership Award. The award was jointly presented by the...

By Jessica Love Sydney Pelichet’s educational path is a testament to the connectional ministries of The United Methodist Church. Today, the 21-year-old is a rising senior at Dillard University – one of 11 United Methodist-related historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) – and a Lina H. McCord intern with the...

In the early 1980s, United Methodists in Africa, led by Bishop Arthur Kulah of Liberia and Bishop Emilio J. M. de Carvalho of Angola, set a challenge before the church to design, site and build a new university for the continent of Africa. As a member of the General Board...

Modern church leaders face a unique set of challenges. The General Board of Higher Education and Ministry (GBHEM), the leadership development agency of The United Methodist Church, recently commissioned research to identify those challenges and help leaders overcome them. The purpose of GBHEM’s Leadership Development Needs Assessment was to ascertain...