wfn.org | Leonard Schulze Elected Director for Elca Division

[News News <NEWS@ELCA.ORG>]

ELCA NEWS SERVICE

March 15, 2000

LEONARD SCHULZE ELECTED DIRECTOR FOR ELCA DIVISION
00-062-MR

     CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Dr. Leonard G. Schulze, 53, Seguin, Texas, was
elected executive director of the Division for Higher Education and
Schools of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).  With the
approval of the Rev. H. George Anderson, presiding bishop of the ELCA,
the division's board appointed Schulze at its meeting here March 10-12.
     Schulze will succeed the Rev. W. Robert Sorensen, who will retire
at the end of the 1999-2000 academic year.  Sorensen announced his
retirement at the division's Sept. 24-26 board meeting.
     In July 2000, Schulze will become responsible for the church's
educational mission in 28 ELCA colleges and universities, in 2,100 ELCA
congregations that operate early childhood centers, elementary and
secondary schools, and in 144 campus ministries.
     "Lutherans have always understood education as a vital expression
of our faith and of our calling as Christians," said Schulze.
     "Education can help liberate us from the tyrannies of ignorance,
incompetence and self-centeredness.  It can free us to fuller lives of
service, useful work, appreciation of one another and understanding of
the world.  I am proud to be working with so many dedicated teachers,
professors, pastors and staff members who help young people grow in
faith and in learning in our schools, colleges, universities and campus
ministries," Schulze said.
     Since 1997, Schulze has served as director of international
education at Texas Lutheran University (TLU), Seguin.  He is also a
professor of English, communication studies, and modern and classical
languages there.
     From 1987 to 1997 Schulze was vice president for academic affairs
and dean of TLU, formerly Texas Lutheran College.  From 1986 to 1987 he
taught English and modern and classical languages there.
     In 1986 Schulze was an assistant professor at The German Summer
School, Taos Ski Valley, N.M.  From 1986 to 1978, he was assistant
professor, Graduate Program in Comparative Literature and Department of
Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Texas at Austin.
     From 1980 to 1981 Schulze was "Lektor" at the Institut fur
Englische Philologie, Julius-Maximilians-Universitat, Wurzburg, Germany.
Schulze taught German at the United States Military Academy, West Point,
N.Y., from 1974 to 1978.
     Schulze was part-time Teaching Fellow at Yale University's
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, New Haven, Conn., from
1972 to 1973.
     Schulze earned a doctorate in comparative literature at Yale
University in 1977 and earned a master of philosophy degree in
comparative literature there in 1974.
     In 1972 Schulze earned a master of arts degree in comparative
literature at Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor of arts degree at
the University of Texas at Austin in 1969.
     Since 1997, Schulze has been a member of the board of trustees of
Augsburg Fortress, Minneapolis, the publishing house of the ELCA.
     Schulze is a member of Emanuel Lutheran Church, Seguin, a
congregation of the ELCA.  He is married to Dr. Wendy J. McCredie,
associate professor of modern and classical languages, English and
communication studies at TLU.  They have two children, Andrew and
Miriam.

For information contact:
John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or NEWS@ELCA.ORG
http://listserv.elca.org/archives/elcanews.html