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CUI Welcomes a New Dean

July 08, 2020 - 1 minute read


Bret Taylor

The School of Arts and Sciences has a new dean at the helm, Dr. Bret Taylor. In accepting the call to serve as dean, Dr. Taylor commented: “I am humbled by the commitment of our faculty to helping our students come to an understanding of truth, goodness, and beauty in various forms and through various content, but ultimately through Jesus Christ, and I look forward to assisting them and their students in meeting the highest standards of excellence and faithfulness.”

Dr. Taylor has served his entire professional life as a Lutheran educator, the last twenty-four years at Concordia University Irvine, where he has served as a professor of mathematics and in a variety of roles including Faculty Athletic Representative, Interim Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, Interim Registrar, and department chair. He completed his PhD from Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia, in Mathematics Education in 2004.

The School of Arts and Sciences instructs students towards their present and future vocations through the arts, humanities, and sciences, as well as through Concordia’s nationally recognized Enduring Questions & Ideas general education curriculum. “Lutheran liberal arts education, when understood correctly and focused on clearly, is a tremendous gift to both society and the church,” Dr. Taylor remarked when asked about the mission of the School of Arts and Sciences, further noting that “Concordia University Irvine’s faculty have a better understanding of this framework than any other institution, in my opinion.”

“The Gospel of St. John says that the ‘Light shines in the darkness and the darkness has not overcome it’ (Et lux in tenebris lucet, John 1:5). This is the heart of Lutheran liberal arts education: to shine the Light of Christ into a dark world,” concluded Dr. Taylor.

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