Degree Mills and Fake Degrees. Schools that have started down this path can take specific steps to reverse direction. They are warned away from people, ideas and institutions that seem to have given in to humanism and the emotional excesses of revivalist religion. When she speaks of the older understanding of professions as combining vocation and occupation, she could be describing seminary professors whose self-identity was first as ordained ministers and second as professors. She identifies a major problem facing theological education: will these faculty be trained and formed in ways that equip them to prepare religious leaders for the future? She begins answering in the affirmative by showing that most candidates for seminary teaching positions continue to be trained in graduate programs located in a seminary. The ats requires that member schools address the issue of spiritual formation in a manner appropriate to the schools context and tradition.