NASHVILLE — Board members of the International Association of Baptist Colleges and Universities (IABCU) have elected Michael Arrington, provost of Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tenn., as executive director of the association.
IABCU, with offices in Nashville, is owned and operated by its 51-member Baptist-related higher education institutions.
Arrington, 62, succeeds Thomas E. Corts, who was named in September by President Bush to coordinate all education initiatives for the U.S. Agency for International Development.
Arrington, who assumed the IABCU post March 1, will retire at the close of the academic year at Carson-Newman.
A Nashville, Ark., native who earned the B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arrington joined Carson-Newman as provost and vice president for academic affairs in 2001. Previously, he invested all but one year of his professional career at Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia, Ark., another IABCU member school.
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