Executive Director
He has served as a college governing board member, university professor, university vice rector, seminary president, Christian college president, academic dean, school director, and national accreditation commissioner. He has taught at colleges and universities in North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. He has advised educational leaders around the world and assisted governing boards, administrators, and faculties with governance and leadership training, accreditation preparation, program and curriculum design, and institutional development and planning.
He currently serves as the organizing president at Reformed Evangelical Seminary, an online theological seminary (est. 2023). He has been an Honorary President at Evangelia University, Anaheim, California, USA (2021-23), a Visiting Lecturer in Media Ethics at Uganda Christian University (2022; online), the Vice Rector and Head of Faculty at Nehemiah Gateway University, Pogradec, Albania (2017-2022), and the founding Academic Dean and President of New Saint Andrews College, Moscow, Idaho, USA (2000-2014). He was a tenured faculty member of the School of Communication at the University of Idaho (1984-2000; tenured 1987). and served as the School's Director from 1995 to 2000. He previously taught journalism and media studies at Gonzaga University, Spokane, WA, USA (1981-1984).
He was twice selected as a Senior U.S. Fulbright Teaching and Research Scholar: first to Warsaw University's Institute of Journalism, Poland (1991), and then to the Institute for Communication Research at Potchefstroom University for Christian Higher Education (now North West University), South Africa (1998). He was an International Development and Training (IDAT) Professor at Egerton University in Njoro, Kenya, East Africa (1992). He has lectured in Albania, Australia, Canada, China, England, Kenya, Kosovo, Mauritius, Poland, South Africa, South Korea, and Uganda.
His scholarly articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in Acta Academica (South Africa), American Journalism, Annals of Iowa: Quarterly Journal of History, Canadian Journal of Communication, Christian Scholars Review, Communicare (South Africa), Ecquid Novi: Journal for Journalism in South Africa, Journalism Educator, Journalism History, Journalism Studies (UK), Journalism Quarterly, Journal of American History, Journal of Communication Inquiry, Journal of Mass Media Ethics, Media, Culture & Society (UK), The Palimpsest: Iowa State Historical Society Journal, and Public Relations Quarterly,
He holds a Ph.D. in Mass Communication from the University of Iowa, USA, an M.A. in Religion from Westminster Theological Seminary, Pennsylvania, USA, and a B.A. in Philosophy from Dordt University, Iowa, USA. He and wife Beverlee have been married 51 years and blessed with two children, 12 grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.