Why SALT?

The School of Applied Leadership for Transformation (SALT) is a global school without walls. In partnership with Kairos University (KU), students studying through SALT partnership programs receive KU accredited degrees. 

SALT is a school within the International Leadership Consortium (ILC), an educational subsidiary of Campus Crusade for Christ, International. CCCI mission is to win, build, & send Christ-centered multiplying disciples who launch spiritual movements; it’s vision is having movements everywhere so that everyone knows someone who truly follows Jesus; and it’s core values are Faith, Growth, Fruitfulness.

The ILC is a growing global educational network serving the Church and parachurch organizations by building the spiritual leaders needed for the Great Commission.

• It’s purpose it to accelerate movements everywhere by spiritually impacting the world through developing leaders in every key segment of society to help fulfill the Great Commission and the Great Commandment.1
• It’s role is to maximize, through formal and non-formal education, the contribution of member institutions in equipping emerging and established Kingdom-minded, transformational leaders to build spiritual movements that transform society (Matt 28:18-20; Acts 1:8; Luke 4:17-21; Acts 10:38)

It’s educational core values are:

• Contextually demonstrated mastery

• Holistic leadership development (heart, head, hands)

• Spirit-filled, passionate disciples of Christ who make disciple-makers

• Personal and societal transformation (impact)

• Quality institutional leadership and internal assessment processes

It’s educational distinctives are:

• Biblically grounded, culturally relevant programs, including come competency-based programs
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• Integrated leadership formation involving theological, leadership, intercultural, educational, and vocational studies to impact society

• Faculty members who disciple students through modeling, mentoring, coaching, and relationship building

• Excellence in the integration of academics and application (scholars who are practitioners & practitioners who are scholars)

• Effective cross-cultural ability

• Exposure to, training in, and reinforcement of transferable concepts, spiritual multiplication, and movement building expressed through incorporating Win-Build-Send to significantly impact the fulfillment of the Great Commission

Current SALT degrees available are: a combined Bachelors and Masters Degree (BA-MA), a Masters degree (MA), a Doctor of Ministry (DMin) degree, and a Doctor of Philosophy Degree (PhD) with specific specializations. Micro-credentials are also offered for specific focused learning, which can lead to these degrees when desired.

Vision and Need for SALT

Before universities were established in the Middle Ages in Europe, education was done by tutoring and apprenticeship. During the Western Enlightenment, knowledge in the universities became more segmented and specialized. That type of education spread globally through Western colonization in the 17th through early 20th centuries. While it has served well in many situations, it has several weaknesses that are now being challenged, which include recognizing that time in the classroom does not necessarily result in learning, and that it often lacks holistic integration, contextualization, and effective vocational application.

Competency-based Education (CBE) has arisen as an accredited alternative that seeks to correct these weaknesses. In addition, the increasing availability of effective internet access globally and the accessibility of information it provides, makes online education a feasible alternative to traditional classroom education.

A type of CBE is CBTE–Competency-based Theological Education, which includes within its curricula the teachings of the Bible as its educational worldview. SALT provides an online CBTE opportunity for those who want to stay in their home and vocation settings but receive this type of training. It does not distinguish between training for ministerial or secular work; rather, SALT curricula see all work as sacred based on God’s plan for a person’s life. With a built-in mentoring approach and integration of learning into the student’s current vocational context, it puts learning knowledge and skills into a more tutored and apprenticeship context along with personal character development.

Currently, it is estimated that as many as 50,000 seminary students graduate globally every year; however, there are more than 50,000 new churches planted every year. In addition, there are other churches whose pastors leave their leadership positions and their congregations are then without the trained care they need. Furthermore, it’s estimated that more than 90% of pastors globally are not theologically trained, which is often because the needed training is unaffordable or inaccessible from where it is needed. SALT makes the needed training both affordable, since it is scaled to the country’s GDP, and accessible, since it enables students to stay in their present context. Thus, it greatly enhances the potential to provide the additional trained leaders needed to meet the needs of the rapidly growing global Church. SALT’s vision includes helping train the needed leaders who will love God, love others, and advance His Kingdom as disciples of Jesus.

The design of the SALT curriculum works backward from what it wants to achieve to how it intends to achieve it. As such it is first impact-focused, then outcomes-oriented, then holistic competency-based, then student-sensitive, and finally mentor-facilitated theological education.

• As impact-focused education, it looks how those involved with the school will impact various areas of society for the Great Commission.
• As outcomes-oriented education, it identifies what the specific type of people are needed to affect that impact.
• As holistic competency-based education, it assesses how proficient students are with specific content, character, and craft areas of personal and vocational development.
• As student-sensitive education it makes necessary adjustments in discussion with a student to meet real personal and vocational needs, not what might be needed in some possible future.
• As mentor-facilitated education, it puts three mentors in an on-going relationship with each student (a many-to-one relationship with the student) rather than having the student be one student in a class (a one-to-many relationship with the teacher).
• As theological education, it integrates the teaching of the Bible into each learning experience to help develop a student’s biblical worldview.
        

What is Kairos University?

• Kairos is a global community (with the merger of 5 other seminaries to form Kairos University) focused on Christ-centered transformation.
• Kairos sees their peers as collaborators and co-workers in God’s service, not as competitors.
• Kairos is competency-based in their approach to theological education to work best contextually.
• Kairos is committed to developing quality pastoral and lay leaders for the Great Commission.
•  To learn more about Kairos University, visit: https://kairos.edu/

What is the ILC?

A network of Campus Crusade for Christ International seminaries, universities, training centers, and affiliate institutions. The ILC is serving the global church by providing quality, accessible, and affordable theological training and leadership options for Christian leaders.

ILC seeks to spiritually impact the world by accelerating Great Commission movements everywhere through developing transformational leaders in every segment of society.

Many pastoral and lay leaders around the world are under-equipped and need both formal (degree granting) and non-formal theological education. ILC is poised to provide both types of theological education. In order to equip leaders with field readiness.