President’s Message

Dear Alumni, Students, and Friends of HJI,

As we close another calendar year, HJI is approaching its 50th Anniversary in 2025. It was in 1975 that our Founders, Rev. Dr. Sun Myung Moon and Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon, established our institution as the Unification Theological Seminary. During the coming year we will reflect on and celebrate the accomplishments of HJI, especially as evidenced through the many alumni who have gone on to establish themselves in ministries and careers that truly embody the HJI vision for “peace and public leadership.”

Thank you for your support over these many years! We are deeply thankful to our Founders, our Board of Trustees, our faculty and staff, alumni and students. Special thanks go to the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification for its steadfast financial support that makes it possible for HJI to carry out its mission.

This annual report highlights many of the exciting programs and developments that have taken place throughout the past year. During 2024, HJI successfully presented its Self-Study to the Middle States Commission on Higher Education (MSCHE) which resulted in our institution’s reaccreditation until the 2031-32 academic year. Our faculty and staff presented an exemplary report that was received with praise by the MSCHE site visit team.

Our faculty continue to excel not only in teaching and mentoring students, but in developing their own research. Several, including Dr. Michael Mickler, and Dr. Keisuke Noda have forthcoming books that will be published in 2025. In addition, HJI is launching its own publishing imprint, HJI Press, and a new journal entitled International Journal on Peace and Public Leadership.

Our students continue to inspire us as they learn, grow, graduate and lead lives that bring great value to society and the world. We are so very proud of them, and of our alumni.

We wish to express our appreciation to the Family Federation for World Peace USA for its ongoing support of HJI and we would also like to thank all our 2024 donors for their support in the past year. Thank you for keeping our institution in mind as we conduct a variety of initiatives to honor HJI’s 50th Anniversary.

On our donation page, you will find testimonies from our students, as well as an invitation to view the 2024 Annual Report, which contains highlights from this past year. We hope that those who have donated in the past will continue to give as we work together to fulfill our Founders’ hopes and expectations for this great institution.

God be with you and your families!

Sincerely,

Dr. Thomas G. Walsh
President

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