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Oklahoma Wesleyan University announced that Dr. Jim Dunn will be hired as the new university president. The announcement came through a press release Friday morning. Dunn will assume the role when Dr. Everett Piper’s retirement becomes official in June 2019.

Dunn is former member of the OKWU Board of Regents as well as a lifelong Wesleyan. Dunn served as a local church pastor for fifteen years, the general director of the Spiritual Formation Department of The Wesleyan Church for eight years, and the executive director of the Church Multiplication Division of The Wesleyan Church for four years.

Dunn is a graduate of Oklahoma Wesleyan University, Asbury Theological Seminary, and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Dr. Dunn and his wife, Wendy, come to Oklahoma from McCordsville, Indiana. They have four children between them, Dr. Dunn has a son and daughter and one grandchild, and Wendy has two daughters.

Dunn will be the sixth president in OWKU history. Piper had served in the role since 2002.