The following letter was sent by the President of the Search Committee to all members of the Board of Trustees of Erskine College on Tuesday, May 11 to introduce Dr. David Norman

Dear Fellow Trustees,

The entire Erskine Presidential Search Committee made up of 11 members (two of whom are advisory) met in Charlotte on Wednesday, May 5, to personally interview the top Presidential Candidates found during a nine-month nation-wide search.

In the Lord’s providence, the Committee rapidly came together with a vote favoring Dr. David Norman as the Presidential Nominee. This process included all nine members voting individually by voice signifying complete support for the choice of David Norman as the Committee’s Nominee to be President of Erskine.

To say that the Search Committee is enthusiastic about David and his qualifications for the presidency would be a vast understatement.

David has connections since childhood to Erskine, from attending soccer camps on campus as a boy, and to the ARP, including his family’s current church membership within the ARP. David and his wife K.D. are excited at the prospect of moving into the President’s house on campus and to building a new life for their three sons in the Due West, SC community.

I will say much more about David’s background and about the search process at our May 21 Board meeting. However as David and K.D. are being introduced on campus today to the Faculty of both the Seminary and the College, Administrators, and student leaders, I wanted you to be aware of David’s name and also have the opportunity to read his CV. (Editor’s note: A brief biography follows this letter.)

Dr. Norman’s academic profile speaks for itself. I so much look forward to personally introducing each of you to Dr. Norman prior to our Board meeting.

It is extremely important that there be no communication with David Norman prior to our voting for him as President on May 21. Any presidential search and hiring is of course a sensitive matter. Therefore except for discussions among ourselves as trustees, I ask that we all refrain from public discussion and comment about the nominee prior to the May 21 Board meeting.

Please join me in praising our God for providing an exciting new President for Erskine at this crucial time.

Sincerely,

Gordon Query, Chairman
Erskine Presidential Search Committee

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Brief Bio for David Norman

Dr. David Norman is the President and Co-Founder of the Graduate Theological Network. (web site at: www.graduatetheologicalnetwork.org) [Editor’s note: the original URL (link) referenced is no longer valid, so the link has been removed.]
He is a Summa Cum Laude graduate of Auburn University and has received a Masters in Christian Thought from Reformed Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in Philosophical Theology from the University of Edinburgh.
He has experience as a youth pastor, college minister and adult Sunday school teacher. He served as Executive Director of the Trinity Forum Academy (a small residential graduate program on the Chesapeake Bay) from 2006-2009 and taught Philosophy and Religious Studies for the University of South Carolina from 2004-2006. While at the University of South Carolina, he also coordinated off-campus programs for the Lancaster campus.
Adding to his list of published journal articles and papers presented at academic conferences, he recently released a scholarly book with the Edwin Mellen Press on mind and body in the philosophical theology of Donald MacKay.
David is married, and he and his wife, K.D., have two young sons (with a third on the way!).