JACKSON, Tenn. — Bob Agee has announced his retirement as executive director of the International Association of Baptist Colleges and Universities (IABCU). The move will become effective at the association’s June 2007 annual meeting or "as soon thereafter as a new executive director can be named."
Agee, 68, has served as executive director of the 51-member association since 1998. A former president of Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee, Agee also served as executive director of the Consortium for Global Education, a sister organization that promotes partnerships between association members and universities in more than 80 countries worldwide.
James Netherton, IABCU board chair and president of Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tenn., announced then he would appoint a search committee to seek a new executive director.
The association promotes Christian education in colleges and universities with a Baptist heritage. Although it was founded in 1948, it assumed the functions of the former Education Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention when the commission dissolved at the end of 1996.
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