GREENVILLE, S.C. — The president of a personal faculty in South Carolina has signed a deal that may preserve him within the place for no less than three extra years.
Bob Jones College President Steve Pettit signed the extension Thursday, the college stated in a information launch.
The settlement runs from the day after graduation in 2023 to the day after graduation in 2026,
“I look ahead to serving as president over the subsequent three years and dealing with our school and employees as we — with God’s steering and enabling — proceed to maneuver the College ahead and supply our college students one of the best biblically based mostly educational preparation for what God has referred to as them to do,” Pettit stated in an announcement.
The varsity's Board of Trustees voted in November to re-elect Pettit, the college's first president not associated to founder, Bob Jones Sr., The Put up and Courier reported.
“We're enthusiastic about BJU’s future below Dr. Pettit’s management,” the board stated in an announcement. “BJU is uniquely positioned in right this moment’s world to ship its mission centered on life-changing Christian schooling for right this moment’s college students.”
Pettit was first elected to the publish in Might 2014.
The evangelical college, based in 1927, has about 3,000 college students throughout its undergraduate and graduate applications.