WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (ABP) — Board members of the International Association of Baptist Colleges and Universities have elected Thomas Corts, president emeritus of Samford University, as executive director of the association. The new post is effective immediately.
Corts, 65, succeeds Bob Agee, who announced last December he would retire at the June 2007 meeting. Agee, who is recovering from a heart attack he suffered in April, was unable to attend the meeting.
Corts' brother, Paul, is president of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, an organization similar to IABCU. About 30 schools are members of both.
Thomas Corts served as interim chancellor of the Alabama College System for the state of Alabama for six months in 2006. Prior to the Alabama position, he served as president of Samford University from 1983 to 2006.
He also served as president of Wingate University in North Carolina from 1974 to 1983 and as coordinator of the Higher Education Consortium of Kentucky from 1973 to 1974. He began his career at Georgetown College in Kentucky, where he worked as a professor, assistant to the president, director of planning and development, executive dean, and executive vice president.
Corts is married to the former Marla Ruth Haas. They have three children and six grandchildren. The IABCU corporate office is in Nashville, Tenn., but Corts will continue to reside in Birmingham, Ala.
New board officers elected for 2007–2008 also include Evans Whitaker, chair; Lee Royce, vice chair; and Carla Sanderson, secretary.
Officers elected the following new board members with terms expiring in June 2011: David Dockery, Alton Lacey and Graham Hatcher.
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