Executive Director
For more than four decades, he has served as a college board member, university professor, vice rector, seminary president, college president, academic dean, school director, and 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 provided boards, administrators, and faculties with governance and leadership training, accreditation preparation, program and curriculum design, and institutional planning.
He has also provided interim executive leadership. He currently serves in that capacity at Reformed Evangelical Seminary, an online theological seminary (est. 2023), as its organizing president. He has been an Honorary President at Evangelia University, Anaheim, California, USA (2021-23), 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). For 16 years, he served as a professor of communication at the University of Idaho (1984-2000; tenured 1987). He was the Director of the UI's School of Communication (1995-2000). He also 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.
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 50 years and blessed with two children, 12 grandchildren, and eagerly await the birth of their first great-grandchild.