DALLAS (ABP) — Former Baptist college president Paul Corts has been named the fifth president of the 30-year-old Council for Christian Colleges and Universities.
The selection of Corts, who has served as assistant attorney general for administration for the U.S. Department of Justice since 2002, was announced March 31.
Prior to his work at the Department of Justice, Corts worked for nearly 12 years as president of Palm Beach Atlantic University, a Florida Baptist school. His brother Tom recently retired as president of Samford University, affiliated with the Alabama Baptist Convention.
Paul Corts previously served as president of Wingate University in North Carolina and held administrative and teaching positions at Oklahoma Baptist University and Western Kentucky University.
The Council for Christian Colleges and Universities is an association of more than 170 intentionally Christian institutions around the world. The council works to advance Christian higher education through institutions that relate “scholarship and service to biblical truth.”
“I have known Dr. Corts for more than 15 years and have observed with admiration his excellent leadership abilities,” said David Dockery, president of Baptist-affiliated Union University in Jackson, Tenn., and chair of the CCCU board of directors. “He is a man of much wisdom and godly character, a devoted churchman and a brilliant leader.”
Corts succeeds CCCU president Bob Andringa, who announced his retirement last year. Corts will assume the office in June 2006 at the CCCU headquarters in Washington, D.C.
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