After a yearlong nationwide search, 51蹤獲 has a new provost and senior vice president. David Nystrom, a respected scholar with an extensive record in Christian higher education, took the high-profile position in August and was formally installed at a ceremony in November. (You can watch his and the entire on 51蹤獲s YouTube channel.)

As the second-ranking member of 51蹤獲s administration, its Nystroms job to lead the universitys faculty and to continue to expand and strengthen 51蹤獲s academic reach in the years ahead.

It involves everything from making sure that microscopic attention to detail takes place, all the way to strategic thinking 20 years out, he says. In some ways Im the chief articulator of 51蹤獲s mission to the faculty and the chief articulator of faculty concerns to the administration and the board. Im sort of the explainer of each side to the other.

Before coming to 51蹤獲, Nystrom served for five years as vice president for academic affairs at William Jessup University and 12 years as chair of biblical and theological studies at North Park Theological Seminary. He has also taught at Fuller Theological Seminary, where he received his M.Div., and the University of California at Davis, where he received his B.A. and Ph.D.

Heres your chance to get to know him.

David Nystrom