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Randall Pannell was voted interim president at North Greenville University by the school’s board of trustees today.
NGU President Dr. Jimmy Epting’s announcement of his sabbatical and retirement is effective June 1.
Pannell was hired in 2011 as vice president for academics.
"We want to continue offering quality education as well as protect the culture here during this interim period,” Bill Tyler, search committee member, said. “We feel we can accomplish this with Dr. Pannell.”
Pannell has more than 30 years of teaching and leadership experience in higher education.
Before coming to NGU Pannell served as associate dean of academics and associate professor of Hebrew and Old Testament at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Va.
Pannell holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Religion from Baylor University in Waco, Texas, a Master of Divinity in Biblical and Theological Studies and Ph.D. in Semitic Languages and Old Testament Literature from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.