PBU Board of Trustees Appoints Dr. W. Sherrill Babb as Chancellor and Dr. Todd Williams as President

PBU Board of Trustees

Appoints Dr. W. Sherrill Babb as Chancellor

and Dr. Todd J. Williams as 5th President

October 2007

The Board of Trustees of Philadelphia Biblical University is pleased to announce the appointment of President W. Sherrill Babb as Chancellor effective January 1, 2008. Succeeding Dr. Babb as President will be Dr. Todd J. Williams, Sr. Vice President and Provost of the University since 2005.

“The appointments of Dr. Babb as Chancellor and Dr. Williams as President were confirmed by the Board in recognition of the gifts, experience, and leadership acumen they will each bring to their new roles,” said Mel Nace, Chairman of the Board. “These transitions are very timely and appropriate as the University seeks to further define and establish itself as a premier institution offering a distinctive biblical worldview education.”

Dr. W. Sherrill Babb served as President of PBU for 28 years. He became the University’s 4th President, assuming the role when the institution moved from Center City Philadelphia to Langhorne in September 1979. The years that followed were ones of unprecedented growth in the student body and expansion of programs and campuses, ultimately leading to the achievement of university status in 2000 by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

During his tenure as President, Dr. Babb conferred degrees upon 5,823 graduates. One of those was Todd J. Williams, a cum laude graduate of the Class of 1992. Williams went on to earn both his Master of Education and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Temple University’s College of Education. In 1994, he returned to PBU as a faculty member in the School of Arts and Sciences and rose through the ranks to Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education and then to Vice President and Academic Dean of Undergraduate Studies before leaving in 2001 to become Headmaster and CEO at Trinity Christian School outside of Washington, D.C. He returned to PBU in July 2005 as Sr. Vice President and Provost.

During his tenure, Dr. Williams has inspired students and faculty with his passion for an enlarged academic vision that includes scholarly endeavors–such as the newly established Center for University Studies and appointment of Worldview Scholar Dr. Nancy Pearcey–graduates who demonstrate an ability to engage in the cultural discourse of the day, and pursuit of academic rigor and curriculum that will establish PBU as a premier institution of Christian higher education that is distinctly and intentionally biblical in its approach.

In the coming days, more information will be provided about this historic transition which includes a Spring 2008 Presidential Inauguration Ceremony. A national search for a new
Sr. Vice President and Provost will begin soon.

In the meantime, please join us in congratulating both Dr. Babb and Dr. Williams in their new roles at Philadelphia Biblical University.

The Board of Trustees