HOWARD NAMED ACADEMIC DEAN
MINNEAPOLIS, May 7, 2024
/PRNewswire/ -- Bethlehem College
and Seminary has appointed Zachary A.
Howard, M.Div '16, to the position of Academic Dean.
"Professor Howard is a graduate of our seminary, a leader, gifted
teacher, scholar, and active member of Bethlehem Baptist Church,"
said President Brian J. Tabb. "He
enjoys my full confidence as well as that of our faculty
colleagues, many of our alumni, and our students. I regard
Zach Howard as the ideal person to
take up these important responsibilities," he added. Howard
succeeds Tabb who himself held the position of Academic Dean prior
to assuming the presidency earlier this year.
Howard has served most recently as the school's Director of
College Programs and as Assistant Professor of Theology and
Humanities. He is credited with being among the architects of the
college's unique Classical Christian approach that emphasizes Great
Books studies in light of the Bible's teaching. As Academic Dean,
Howard will be the school's highest ranking academic official, next
only to the president and chancellor, and responsible for
recruiting and retention of faculty, curriculum, academic policies
and procedures, and student life.
"Serving with a team of faculty colleagues who are excellent at
their craft, find their deepest joy in God, and honor him in their
scholarship has been an immense privilege for me," Howard said.
"Now, with gratitude to God and hope in his grace, I am eager to
lead such a distinct faculty in fulfilling our shared mission," he
added.
Professor Howard is a graduate of Hillsdale
College where he earned a B.A. in History. He and his wife,
Betsy, then spent two years teaching in a Classical Christian K-12
school in Cincinnati, Ohio. He
received his M.Div from Bethlehem
College and Seminary in 2016, serving as the school's Admissions
Director while a seminary student. He joined the Bethlehem College faculty after seminary and
continued as a student at the University of
St. Thomas where he received an M.A. in 2019. He is
currently preparing to defend his doctoral dissertation on the
preaching of Saint Augustine as a student at Durham University,
U.K.
He and his wife, Dr. Betsy
Howard, who is also a member of the Bethlehem College faculty, live in a triplex
home in the Philips neighborhood that adjoins the school's
church-based campus in downtown Minneapolis with their four daughters and
several college student tenants.
Bethlehem College and Seminary
is a churches-based, degree-granting institution with its main
campus located on the site of Bethlehem Baptist Church,
Minneapolis, and evening classes
conducted at The North Church, Mounds
View, Minnesota. The school offers both undergraduate and
graduate degrees. The college is in the model of classical and
Christian education, while the seminary focuses on equipping of
biblical elders for the tasks of pastoral, missionary, and academic
ministry. The seminary maintains a separate location in Yaoundé,
Republic of Cameroon, in
cooperation with Église Baptiste Bethléem, a church planted by one
of its graduates. Bethlehem
College and Seminary is accredited by the Association for Biblical
Higher Education Commission on Accreditation.
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