WASHINGTON — Former Baptist college president Paul Corts has been named the fifth president of the 30-year-old Council for Christian Colleges & Universities. The selection of Corts, who has served as assistant attorney general for administration for the U.S. Department of Justice since 2002, was announced March 31.
Prior to his work at the Department of Justice, Corts worked for nearly 12 years as president of Palm Beach Atlantic University, a Florida Baptist school. Corts is the brother of Thomas E. Corts, retiring president of Samford University in Birmingham.
Paul Corts previously served as president of Wingate University in North Carolina and held administrative and teaching positions at Oklahoma Baptist University in Shawnee and Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green. The Council for Christian Colleges & Universities is an association of more than 170 intentionally Christian institutions around the world. The council works to advance Christian higher education through institutions that relate “scholarship and service to biblical truth.”
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