Colleen Derr was named the fifteen president of Eastern Nazarene College in Quincy, Massachusetts. She will take office this summer.
The college enrolls just under 500 undergraduate students and 155 graduate students, according to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Education. Women make up 48 percent of the undergraduate student body.
“It is with great excitement and joy that I look forward to joining the family of Eastern Nazarene College,” Dr. Derr said. “I am honored to steward ENC’s mission into the future, to link arms with the church, and come alongside the dedicated faculty and staff as together we realize the vision of providing transformational education that equips students to lead and serve our world.”
Dr. Derr currently serves as president of Wesley Seminary at Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion. There she teaches courses in congregational formation, transformational teaching, spiritual formation, as well as children, youth, and family ministry.
A native of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Dr. Derr has a bachelor’s degree in Christian education from United Wesleyan College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, which closed in 1990. She holds a master’s degree in ministry leadership from Indiana Wesleyan University, and a doctorate in Christian education leadership from Regent University in Virginia Beach.