A community where students, staff and faculty are all valued in preparation for service to the church. Ive been involved with this community as a neighbor, a student, and a staff member so I know it from a variety of perspectives. It is an amazing place to work and study.

This institution is steeped in Communism.

After decades being a good neighbor to the greater northside community in Richmond the seminary has chosen a path to secure their financial future by building 300+ apartments which will do great harm to our community by over taxing resources such as schools, roads and sewers. In the face of overwhelming opposition from the surrounding neighborhoods their response has been to simply declare that the dissent is isolated and few in number. Lastly, the seminary site has been utterly denuded of trees in the process.

The Seminary, in pursuit of maximized income, has become an asset manager rather than a faith based educational institution, exemplifying the old joke: Whats the shortest book in the English Language? Christian Business Ethics. A shame that will haunt the institution for the foreseeable future.

Union is a phenomenal institution that is educating the pastors, teachers, and chaplains of tomorrow. Union has been a pillar in its community for over two hundred years--and will continue to be one for another two hundred years!

A rigorous and valuable theological education. Remarkable library, faculty who are engaged with students progress and development.

A pillar in theological education. Training ground for pastors and educators going into the Church. Open to diversity and inclusiveness.

The current Union Presbyterian Seminary leaders are a disgrace to the Christian community and have completely ruined the reputation of this once very well-respected institution. Dont be deceived by their Facebook images and posts for these are merely self-projections, a PR machine used to cover their shameful acts of destruction and hypocrisy. Their true face is the one they have repeatedly shown to the surrounding communities which can never be erased or covered up for God knows the truth. Do your homework on the people who have written the positive reviews for most are written by their talking heads (Michael Frontiero, Clay McCaulay, etc.) Unfortunately, a one-star minimum is required to post a review but UPS deserves a negative five star rating for running this institution into the ground. Choose your future and affiliation wisely!

A faithful, caring community devoted to the love of God. Faculty are second to none.

A Richmond institution generously committed to serving and supporting the community and its neighbors.

An excellent theological seminary and school of Christian education located in Richmonds beautiful Northside and in Charlottes lovely Southpark!

No longer the responsible, positive influence on the neighborhood that they once were.

The Seminary was gifted a beautiful 34 acres in the heart of northsides historic neighborhoods many years ago for educational and institutional purposes, which the City of Richmond zoning reflected. The Seminary took advantage of a City zoning error to plan a suburban-style 300 plus unit apartment complex that is incompatible in mass, scale, architectural style, and character to the surrounding context. It also will create a burden for taxpayers and the City in terms of stormwater management, roads, and schools due to the added population. Finally, it will adversely impact the historical character of surrounding neighborhoods and property values.Neighbors have made organized efforts for several years to have civil, productive conversations with the Seminary representatives about alternative solutions to their reported dilemmas in terms of student housing and financial challenges. They have with very poor counsel elected to bring in an out of state developer with plenty of poor press in the state of Tennessee for their previous work, and their financial counsel has been poor, as well. All over the country, 9 churches close daily and seminaries are clising or altering their models of delivering education due to financial pressures.So, this development not only alienates prior Seminary supporters and spoils the character of this area, but also is very unlikely to result in a significant uptick in students. It is also very unlikely to bring financial success, since the local market does not have demand for the number of rental units at the rental fees reported.The Seminary should feel shame, as should the City of Richmond for their uncorrected error.

I love UPSem! My church has been affiliated with UPSem for around 200 years. It is a wonderful institution. I have met and been friends with many students, faculty, staff and alumni. They have been excellent stewards of the Richmond community. I am saddened by the way UPSem is being dragged through the mud over their development of land that they own and have shared with the surrounding community for years. May God continue to bless UPSem in their mission of doing Gods work.

A wonderful place to learn and work. Cant think of another place where Id rather study.

My daughter graduated from Union. She got a great education and a definition of what her ministry call was.

A wonderful place to work with a caring and loving community

A supportive community and awesome learning experience.

A wonderful place to learn, serve, and work.

Visible evidence that God is alive and well!