Hopefully, as was evident through my discovery, reflection & vocation, you can see how I am serving God's call and my gifts to serve others as a servant leader.  More importantly, I see a key role of the servant leader being to inspire and empower others.  Over the last seven years I'm proud of what WE at Bethany have accomplished.  I work with inspired and empowered faculty, staff, and students - and collectively we have seen success in ...

• Reclaiming our identity and mission, discerning our missional directions, reaffirming our core values, and establishing our promise to students leading to the development of our vision and strategic directions

• Developing a bold and audacious vision and its strategic directions – As One Bethany we will soar bigger, better, and stronger, guiding student success and with them co-creating the best total experience by living Bethany Pathway while qualitatively renewing each component of the Bethany experience and by focusing our resources to deliver results or to add value

• Defining through a shared campus imagineering process the Bethany College of the 21^st century framed by our four missional directions - discovery, reflection, & vocation, servant leadership, global citizenship, and sustainable living - resulting in a new interdisciplinary core  curriculum (Bethany Pathway) and a new integrated experience for the first two-years of college (Bethany Quest)
  

• Developing strategic partnerships with MindFire Academy (Wichita, Kansas), The Art Connection Academy (Kansas City, Missouri), Harlaxton College (Grantham, England), Karlstad University (Karlstad, Sweden), and Linnaeus University (Växjö, Sweden)

• Growing enrollment 34% from 537 to 717, the largest seven-year enrollment growth in 40 years, and 17% the last two years

• Growing freshmen enrollment 47% from 128 to 188 and increasing freshmen-to-sophomore retention from 53% to 64%

• Raising almost $3.9 million (exceeding the goal of $3.5 million) toward the construction of the Bud Pearson Swedish Chapel and J.E. & L.E. Mabee Welcome Center, the first fully-fundraised building in over 30 years

• Completing a year earlier than planned the largest fundraising campaign in the college’s history, finishing 10% over the goal at $22 million - including the college's first 3 million-dollar+ gifts

• Enhancing the campus’ facilities and technology by more than $25 million
  

• Receiving reaffirmation of accreditation with the Higher Learning Commission, National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, and the National Schools of Music and initial and reaffirmation of accreditation with the Commission on Accreditation for Athletic Training Education