ATS gives Leland Center associate-member status

ATS gives Leland Center associate-member status

FALLS CHURCH, Va. — The John Leland Center for Theological Studies has been admitted as an associate member by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada.

ATS, the primary accrediting agency for seminaries in North America, admitted the Leland Center at its biennial meeting, June 22–24. Associate membership is a significant step in a school’s quest for full accreditation.

The Virginia Baptist-affiliated Leland Center was founded in 1998 in Falls Church in response to requests to provide post-baccalaureate, professional theological education with a distinctively Baptist orientation in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area.