Culminating a process to improve the school's financial situation, the board of Central Baptist Theological Seminary voted May 12 to move to a suburban facility from its inner-city campus in Kansas City, Kansas

Culminating a process to improve the school's financial situation, the board of Central Baptist Theological Seminary voted May 12 to move to a suburban facility from its inner-city campus in Kansas City, Kansas. Lisa Wimberly Allen, the school's dean and vice president for advancement, said that seminary officials hope to move in midsummer.

The new location is a church facility in Shawnee, Kansas, several miles southwest of the current campus. It will be the third site that the seminary, affiliated with the American Baptist Churches, has occupied since its 1901 founding. Seminary president Molly Marshall, in announcing early this year the school's intention to move, said the decision was largely financial: with a dozen buildings for only 130 students, the old campus is too large, and the buildings require $5 million in maintenance that has been deferred.

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