DMin Project Director & Committee

Project Director and Committee

By the conclusion of the Proposal Seminar, each student should have identified a member of the Iliff faculty to serve as Director of their DMin Project and two additional persons to serve on the committee, and have completed the Project Committee Form and returned it to the DMin Director(s). 

In choosing a Project Director, students should consider the proposed direction of their project and the academic expertise of the faculty member, ensuring that the Director will have the appropriate background to be able to direct the project in meaningful ways. Depending on the number of projects a particular faculty member is currently advising, students might not be able to work with their preferred faculty member. In that circumstance, the DMin Director(s) will work with the student to find a suitable alternative from within the Iliff faculty. As much as possible, this problem will be addressed at the admissions stage, with limits placed on the number of students admitted who want to work with any particular member of the faculty. Any proposed Project Director other than a full-time Iliff faculty member will not be approved.

In addition to a Project Director, each student should identify two other persons to serve on the Project Committee. One of these people should be a second member of the Iliff faculty, and the other should be a practitioner in the field in which the project is centered. For example, a project about congregational life might have a parish minister as the practitioner of the committee, or a project about not-for-profit organizations might have an activist or non-profit executive on the committee. The practitioner should have appropriate qualifications for serving on such a committee. A masters degree is required, and a doctoral degree is preferred. Additionally, the practitioner should have specific expertise and/or experience that will contribute to the project.