The director of communications at Claremont School of Theology sent these two links in a comment thread. They in response to recent UMC actions regarding the school.
Here is a news release about it.
Here is the president’s blog post about it.
The president said concerns about consultation with the UMC and financial matters should not be real concerns. He suggests a different reason why the UMC might be rethinking its relationship with the seminary:
The more pressing issue, it seems, may be possible questions about the School’s emerging vision to open our minds, our hearts, and our doors even wider to a rapidly changing world. Our mission is to educate students toward “ethical integrity, religious intelligence, and intercultural understanding” in order to bring about a more harmonious world in an age of violence and brokenness. I can understand how these might be uncomfortable ideas, but it is through such leadership and application of core Wesleyan principles that I believe the Church can move forward into a religiously diverse world.
Yes, Talbot. You told me.
I am a part-time local pastor serving 
The doctrine of original sin is surely more humbling to man than the opposite: And I know not what honour we can pay to God, if we think man came out of His hands in the condition wherein he is now.
I’m just impressed the University Senate has the intestinal fortitude to hold institutions to some kind of accountability. This is sort of like the reverse of guaranteed appointments, eh?