An administrator and professor with Old Testament credentials has been named vice president for academic affairs at North Greenville University.
PannellRandall Pannell, who most recently served as associate dean of academics and associate professor of Hebrew and Old Testament at Regent University in Virginia Beach, Va., joined the NGU administration July 1.
He succeeds Don Dowless, who recently accepted the presidency of Shorter University in Rome, Ga.
Pannell has also served as assistant professor of Hebrew and Old Testament at Southwestern Seminary, associate professor of Hebrew and Old Testament at Seminario Internacional Teologico Bautista in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and has had experience as vice president for academic affairs and acting president at other institutions.
He holds a bachelor of arts in English and religion from Baylor University and a master of divinity in biblical and theological studies, as well as a Ph.D. in Semitic languages and Old Testament literature, from Southwestern Seminary.