“To affiliate” is to unite out of a shared interest and for a common purpose. Thus, RBS affiliates are organizations that RBS formally partners with to share resources and to accomplish mutual goals. Thus, when RBS confers “affiliate” status on a sister Reformed Baptist seminary, she has determined that the said seminary shares RBS’s beliefs and vision for church-based seminary education. Moreover, the conferral of affiliate status also signifies that RBS has reviewed that seminary’s programs, faculty, and curriculum and RBS offers its public recognition and approval.