1514. Responsibilities to General and Annual Conferences--The Division of Higher Education will cooperate with and assist the General and annual conferences and their respective boards and area commissions organized in behalf of educational institutions and the campus ministry. (For annual conference boards see 732.2.)
1. The division shall:
a) Provide for the cooperative study of plans for maximum coordination of the work of United Methodist higher education with the Church's mission in Christian education.
b) Direct attention of Church members to the contribution of United Methodist educational institutions and campus ministry units to the life and character of students, faculty, and staff, and to the place the institutions and campus ministry have in the preservation and propagation of the Christian faith for our time.
2. The division shall assess institutional and campus ministry relationships with and responsibilities to the Church, and shall aid in the determination of the degree of active accord between institutional and campus ministry policies and practices and the policies of the Church as expressed in the Discipline and in General Conference enactments.
3. The division shall assist educational societies and foundations related to the annual conferences for the promotion of Christian higher education and the campus ministry and shall recognize such societies and foundations as auxiliaries of the division when their objectives and purposes, articles of incorporation, and administrative policies shall have been approved by the annual conference within whose boundaries they have been incorporated.
4. The division shall direct attention to the work and needs of those educational institutions which stand in special relationship to The United Methodist Church and shall request support for them. Due recognition shall be given to the needs of the black colleges historically related to The United Methodist Church. (See 919, 1523.)
5. The division shall approve changes in institutional sponsorship, relationships to the General or annual conferences, including separation from United Methodist program boards, from the General or one or more annual conferences or from the University Senate as the certifying agency of The United Methodist Church.
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1992 Book of Discipline: ¶ 1514
1996 United Methodist General Conference