No matter whether you are a recent graduate of one of Meadville Lombard’s newest programs and remember looking out on Lake Michigan, or whether you spent your student years in Hyde Park across the way from First Unitarian Church, you are connected to a long line of scholars, ministers, teachers, and community advocates who share a strong academic foundation. We are part of an evolution that has nurtured our Unitarian and Universalist roots, and that has propelled us into different kinds of ministries and professions that continue to grow our faith and our dedication to peace and justice.
We are parish and community ministers, hospital and military chaplains, teachers, business people, entrepreneurs, and more. We move through the world asserting ethical and compassionate mores enhanced by our Meadville Lombard learning and associated praxis.
We recognize a need to seek each other out as we gather together in local clusters, at regional meetings, study groups, retreats, graduations, and General Assemblies. These bonds are not trivial and pay homage to our Meadville Lombard experience, connections, and roots. They help us to maintain and to rekindle friendships, to broaden and to strengthen our ministries. As we stay connected, we can support this living, breathing, evolving institution that has given us so much.
We can be proud of Meadville Lombard’s steadfastness and the innovation that has helped us remain a vital entity in religious education, while other institutions have not been so fortunate. Courageous choices have been made, and the consistent focus has continued to be on excellence in scholarship and ministry while broadening perspectives that encompass not only our congregations, but also the wider community.
*Note: We changed the association’s name from Alumni/ae Association to Alum Association, in order to be more inclusive. Alumni is the plural form of alumnus, a male graduate, and alumnae is the plural form of alumna, a female graduate. Our association is for Meadville Lombard graduates of all genders.
Meadville Lombard alums may take courses for credit or audit them at a greatly reduced fee. Simply fill out the student at large application or contact us to learn more about how to register.
Current internship supervisors are entitled to audit one class each year. For more information, please contact the Senior Director of Contextual Ministry.
For Spring Admission (MDiv | MAR | Certificates)
For Fall Admission (DMin | MDiv | MAR | Certificates)
If you have any questions, we are here to assist you. Please do not hesitate to contact us at youbelong@meadville.edu.
Complete the form below in order to begin the registration process.
The Wiggin Library now has a specific online catalog (with purple header) that our alums are encouraged to use. You can find the way back to the catalog homepage with the purple header by clicking the purple buttons or the link to the Wiggin Library.
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All internship supervisors are eligible to audit one Meadville Lombard class tuition-free each year by registering as a student-at-large with the Registrar who will provide instructions to access the course registration. Administrative fees still apply.
All internship supervisors are eligible to audit one Meadville Lombard class tuition-free each year by registering as a student-at-large with the Registrar who will provide instructions to access the course registration. Administrative fees still apply.
I am a proud Meadville Lombard grad, and I am pleased that I have been afforded an opportunity to serve and to have a venue to be a liaison between graduates and the school. Please feel free to contact me if you want to explore opportunities to be of service to Meadville Lombard or to talk about the exciting work of the school today.
May we all be vessels and witnesses for the good we need in the world.
Rev. Viola Abbitt, MDiv ’19
President of the Alum Association
Rev. Kevin DeBeck, MDiv ’18, Secretary
Rev. Kali Fyre, MDiv ’17, Covenant Officer
ML alums have full-text access to both Atla Religion Database and the JSTOR Religion and Theology Database! The Atlas Religion Database for Alums is an extensive index of journal articles, book reviews, and essays from thousands of full-text religion and theology journals hosted through EBSCO. It is one of the largest collections of full-text access scholarship on the study of religion available to researchers. The JSTOR Religion and Theology Collection provides access to academic journals covering the history and philosophy of religion. While there is some overlap with the Atla Religion Database, JSTOR-Religion and Theology contains journals not in the Atla Religion Database. You can find both of these databases on the new Digital Articles and Journals Page.
To access these new resources, alum patrons will now have to log in via Populi to all library resources. For recent alums, this will be quite familiar. For alums who graduated before we introduced Populi as our student information system, all this means is that we will create a Populi account for you, and you will use it to log in to both the library catalog and these new databases. For both alums with current Populi accounts and those without, we ask that you go to this page and fill out the form for requesting alum accounts: Alum Library Account Request. Once this is done, give us a day or so and we will email you confirming your alum account is now working.
Once your Populi account is active and connected to the library, it is what you will use to log in to the library catalog and will give you access to Atlas and JSTOR. As part of the account creation process, you will have the chance to request a 30-minute Zoom library orientation for the new resources. We highly recommended that you take us up on this offer, especially if you never used Atlas before (or it has been a few years since you have). In case you complete the above form and change your mind, you can also schedule a generic library orientation to learn more: Schedule Library Orientation with Calendly.
If you have any questions, please email us at library@medville.edu.
All the best,
John and Sarah