Vice-Chairman and Member Finance Committee: Dr. Kenneth E. Alberts, Rockford, IL. Board member since 1987. D.Div. (honorary), Jerusalem University College; B.S., Providence Bible College; B.A., Northwestern University; JUC board member since 1988. Dr. Alberts was the chairman of the board at JUC/IHLS from 1987 - 2007. Now retired, Dr. Alberts spent several decades in the insurance and health and retirement sectors and as an owner and administrator of a multi-faceted retirement and health care facility. He is active in numerous non-profit organizations and boards at the local level, including church activities and several community-based charities.

Treasurer and Chair Finance Committee: Dr. Duane R. Wood, Cedarville, OH. Board member since 1996. D.B.A., Indiana University; M.B.A., Butler University; B.S.M.E., Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; P.E. in Indiana. Dr. Wood is Executive Director for Program Development and professor of Management at Cedarville University, having previously served as Vice President of Academics at Cedarville for 18 years. Dr. Wood has also served as Dean of the School of Business, Economics and Management and as Director of the interdisciplinary M.S. in Administration at the University of Southern Maine; as Director of the Perry School of Banking; and as Associate Dean of the School of Business Administration at Central Michigan University where he was awarded the Lyle W. Wilhite Award for teaching excellence. Dr. Wood has conducted management training and development sessions and served as a consultant to over 25 business and non-profit organizations, including Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Bath Iron Works, Dow Chemical, IBM, Dow Corning and the U.S. Armed Forces, as well as several banks, hospitals and universities. He has also served as a founding member and Treasurer of the Board of Trustees of Church Extension Ministries, as a Trustee on the Board of New England Baptist Bible College, as a member of the Governor’s Technology Advisory Council for the Ohio Board of Regents, and is currently on the governing board for the Ohio Learning Network. He has authored over 60 articles and papers which have been published or presented in professional management and higher education conferences.

Secretary and Member Education Committee: Ms. Dianne H. Benton, Austin, TX. Board member since 2005. M.A., Jerusalem University College; B.A., LeTourneau University; additional studies at the Rothberg Overseas School of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Ms. Benton has been a business owner (franchisee) of McDonald’s restaurants since 1972. She has traveled in Israel and neighboring countries extensively and participated in archaeological excavations at Tel Rehov, Tel Dor and Tel es-Safi. She is also active on a number of civic boards and initiatives.

Chair of the Consortium of Associated Schools: Dr. Bryan E. Beyer, Columbia, SC. Board member since 1994; chair of the Educational Committee and the Consortium Membership Committee. Ph.D., Hebrew Union College; M.Div., Denver Seminary; B.A., Colorado State University. Dr. Beyer is professor of Old Testament and Semitic Languages at Columbia Biblical Seminary and School of Missions. He previously served as Dean of Students and as Academic Dean at Columbia Bible College, Columbia International University, and holds membership in the Evangelical Theological Society and the Society of Biblical Literature. Dr. Beyer has authored or co-authored several books, including Encountering the Old Testament: A Christian Survey with Dr. Bill Arnold.

Representative for Colleges and Universities: Taylor University, represented by Dr. Michael A. Harbin, Upland, IN. Term expires in November 2010.  Th.D., Dallas Theological Seminary; Th.M., Dallas Theological Seminary; M.A., California State University, Dominguez Hills; B.S., The U. S. Naval Academy. Dr. Harbin is Professor of Biblical Studies at Tayor University, where he is the Chair of the Biblical Studies, Christian Education and Philosophy Department, and Director of the Master of Arts in Religious Studies program. 

He is also active in Taylor University’s Irish Studies Program, where he and his wife spent three semesters in Ireland supervising students involved in this program.  He is a retired Naval Aviator, having retired with the rank of Captain (USNR).  He is currently a member of the Evangelical Theological Society, the Society of Biblical Literature, the Institute of Biblical Research, and the Near Eastern Archaeological Society.  Dr. Harbin is the author of To Serve Other Gods:  An Evangelical History of Religion, and The Promise and the Blessing:  An Historical Survey of the Old and the New Testaments.

Representative for Colleges and Universities: Philadelphia Biblical University, represented by Edgar B. Hardesty, Bel Air, MD. Term expires in November 2011.  B.S., Philadelphia College of Bible; Th.M., Dallas Theological Seminary; M.A., Baltimore Hebrew University; Reading for Ph.D. comprehensive exams, Baltimore Hebrew University. Edgar is Associate Professor of Bible at Philadelphia Biblical University and currently teaches in the Bible and Israel Program. He has been in pastoral ministry since 1972 and has been a senior pastor since 1981. His love for archaeology, biblical studies, historical geography and Jewish studies first took root at Philadelphia College of Bible and continues through his studies at Baltimore Hebrew University. He has attended Short Term Programs at Jerusalem University College on three occasions, co-leads the annual PBU study tour to Israel and has dug at Ekron (Tel Miqne), Beth Shemesh and Gezer.

Representative for Seminaries and Graduate Schools: Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, represented by Dr. Russell Fuller, term expires in November 2009.  Dr. Fuller was born and raised in Atlanta, graduated from Hebrew Union College in Cincinnati in 1992. He taught Bible at Mid-Continent College, and is now a professor of Old Testament at The Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He is married to Donna (Sanford) and has three children, David (14), Christine (12), and Katherine (10).

Representative for the Canadian Scholarship Foundation: Dr. Norman Gunn, Toronto, ON, Canada. Board member since the 1980’s. C.D., D.P.M.; Fellow, Podiatry Association of Great Britain. Dr. Gunn, now retired, had a long practice in podiatric medicine and as a forensic pathologist. He has served the RCMP, the FBI, Interpol, other worldwide intelligence agencies and the police in forensic pathology, and was instrumental in creating breakthrough technology in finger print identification techniques. Dr. Gunn is responsible for the Canadian Scholarship Foundation which encourages Canadian alumni and other donors in charitable giving for Canadian students at JUC.

Member Finance Committee: Mr. David P. Peterson, Rockford, IL. Board member since 2005. B.A., Greenville College; graduate, Moody Bible Institute; graduate studies in Industrial Psychology, Northern Illinois University. Mr. Peterson works for the chairman of Winnebago County.  He was the president of Rockford Cold Form Products Group.  He has previously held management positions with The Ingersoll Milling Machine Company, Camcar Division of Textron, Inc., Kysor Industrial Corporation and the Mechanics Division of Borg Warner Corporation. He is currently a member of the board of directors of The Howard Center, Rockford Spring Company and Bates Financial Services.

In addition, Mr. Peterson has held leadership roles with a number of local governmental and health care organizations, including the Rockford (IL) Mass Transit District, the Rockford (IL) Board of Education, the Rockford (IL) Police and Fire Commission, the Winnebago County (IL) Crime and Public Safety Commission, the 911 Emergency Telephone System Board, the Northern Illinois Law Enforcement Commission, the Black Healthcare Initiative, the Rockford (IL) Council for Affordable Health Care, the Janet Wattles Mental Health Center, the Rockford (IL) Area Substance Abuse Council, the Employer Coalition of Health and the National Advisory Council for the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment.

Board Member: Mr. Scott Bolinder, Grand Rapids, MI. board member since 2010. Since Dec, 2008, Scott W. Bolinder has served as President, Global Publishing for Biblica (formerly IBS-STL Global), a worldwide non-profit biblical resource ministry. Prior to that, he served almost twenty years as Executive Vice President & Publisher at Zondervan, responsible for all acquisitions, author relations and product development. Before Zondervan, he served ten years as Senior Vice President at Christianity Today, Inc.

Scott is a graduate of Wheaton College where he earned an English degree in 1973. He also has a master’s degree in Social Work from the University of Illinois (Chicago), which he earned in 1975. He then served four years as an Army officer in the Medical Service Corps fulfilling an ROTC commitment prior to beginning his publishing career.

He has been married 37 years to Jill and has a married daughter, a married son, another young adult daughter and three beautiful granddaughters! He is active at Thornapple Evangelical Covenant Church where he has served as an elder. He also serves on several non-profit boards—currently North Park University and Jerusalem University College.