![]() With the 1970s came the creation of an Office of Women’s Concerns, courses on women in ministry initiated and taught by Roberta Hestenes, and Fuller’s first female tenure-track faculty member, Hendrika Vande Kemp. By 1966, all Fuller’s degree programs were opened to women. That year also saw the hiring of Fuller’s first faculty member, Rebecca Price, who taught and administered a second degree designed with women in mind, the Master of Religious Education. At their insistence, by the following year women were taking individual courses, and by 1950 a degree specifically for women-the Bachelor of Sacred Theology, a modified version of the Bachelor of Divinity-was created, with Helen Clark its first graduate in 1952. In 1947, when Fuller Theological Seminary was founded, it was assumed that all students preparing for ministry would be men women, however, saw it differently. ![]()
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