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Paul R. Corts
Paul R. Corts is a “global peripatetic” having traveled in all of the 50 United States and in over 50 countries around the world. Experiences from extensive travel throughout his c...view morePaul R. Corts is a “global peripatetic” having traveled in all of the 50 United States and in over 50 countries around the world. Experiences from extensive travel throughout his career in higher education, government, and civic life, his sabbaticals in Cambridge with travel around the United Kingdom, and his numerous mission trips to most of the world’s continents provide the grist for many of the biblically based meditations in this daily devotional guide. An optimistic, visionary leader, Corts writes in an easy conversational style to share words of encouragement and hope. He began his writing career with textbooks, and has more recently authored or edited several books including Sabbaticals for Leaders, Caring for the President, Thinking Christianly, and Great Teachers We Have Known.
Corts has had a distinguished career in higher education, government, and civic life in a wide variety of leadership positions. He retired in 2012 from the presidency of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU), the leading international association for Christian higher education, and was named President Emeritus. Prior to joining the CCCU, Corts served as Assistant Attorney General for Administration, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) from 2002-2006; he served on the President’s Management Council and numerous other federal councils and boards. In 2006 he was awarded the Edmund J. Randolph Award for outstanding service to the Department of Justice.
Prior to his work at DOJ, Corts served as president of Palm Beach Atlantic University (FL) for nearly 12 years and as president of Wingate University (NC) for 8 years. Earlier in his career, he was a faculty member and administrator at Oklahoma Baptist University (5 years) and Western Kentucky University (10 years). He has served in numerous leadership roles on many state, regional and national professional organizations. In semi-retirement he continues to consult widely throughout this country and globally with universities and non-profits.
Born in Indiana, Corts grew up in Northeastern Ohio one of six boys in a family of seven children, led by parents Charles and Hazel Corts who were teachers and in ministry. Corts holds a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown College, a master’s and Ph.D. from Indiana University. He and his wife, Diane Stevens Corts, have four children – Elizabeth Ann (deceased), Kenneth Stevens, Daniel Paul, and Susan Corts Hill.view less