LIBERTY, Mo. — A Lutheran college vice president and Oklahoma Baptist University graduate has been selected as the 14th president of William Jewell College, Liberty, Mo.
David L. Sallee, 48, vice president for enrollment management at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, since 1993, will assume the presidency at Jewell on Aug. 28 at the beginning of the school’s fall term.
Sallee succeeds W. Christian Sizemore, president of the 1,600-student Baptist-affiliated college since 1994, who has been named chancellor.
A nationwide search was conducted by a committee of trustees, faculty, staff, alumni, students and community members, chaired by Doyle m. Sager, pastor of First Baptist Church, Jefferson City, Mo., and a trustee of the college. Trustees approved Sallee’s selection in a June 16 meeting.
Prior to assuming his current position at Luther, Sallee spent eight years as vice president of enrollment management at Oklahoma Baptist University at Shawnee, Okla.
Sallee graduated from Oklahoma Baptist University in 1973 with a bachelor of arts in physical education and then earned a master of science in physical education from Pittsburgh (Kan.) State University in 1976 and a Ph.D. in adult and higher education from the University of Oklahoma in 1993.
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