Graduate Leadership Classical Faculty

Gordon’s Graduate Leadership program offers unparalleled access to nationally recognized leaders. Previous and current instructors have included the following individuals, who bring a wide range of experience from diverse backgrounds to illuminate the learning experience for students.

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Davies Owens, Ph.D.

Instructor, Gordon College Graduate Leadership
Executive Director, Society for Classical Learning

Davies Owens is the Head of Vision and Advancement at the Ambrose School in Boise, Idaho, where he also served as the Dean of the Upper School. Prior to moving west, he served for 10 years as a board member, and later, as Head of School at Heritage Preparatory School, an ACCS member school in Atlanta, Georgia. Five years prior, he was the Executive Director of BlueSky Ministries, an innovation lab and consulting organization launched after his ... more ➔

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Leslie Moeller, Ph.D.

Instructor, Gordon College Graduate Leadership
Chairman of the Board, Society for Classical Learning

Leslie Moeller is the Chairman of the Board of the Society for Classical Learning and has served on the SCL Board for 12 of the last 14 years. She currently consults with Classical, Christian schools across the nation in the areas of leadership, administrative function, and governance. She is a member of the Board of New Covenant Schools in Lynchburg, Virginia, and the Board of Academic Advisors for the Classic Learning Test. Most recently, she ... more ➔

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Kevin Clark, DLS

Instructor, Gordon College Graduate Leadership
Founder, The Ecclesial Schools Initiative

Kevin Clark (DLS) is the founder and President of The Ecclesial Schools Initiative, Inc. His classical Christian education experience spans 17 years, including 15 at The Geneva School, Winter Park, FL. He later assumed a leadership position at the school, serving five years as academic dean of The Geneva School before leaving to found The Ecclesial Schools Initiative. Kevin has ten years of leadership as a fellow for The Society for Classical ... more ➔

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Eric Cook

Co-Director and Instructor, Gordon College Graduate Leadership
President, Society for Classical Learning

Eric Cook is the President of the Society for Classical Learning (SCL). Eric has been formally associated with SCL for over a decade serving in multiple roles, including Executive Director and Board Chair. He was the Head of School at Covenant Classical in Fort Worth, TX for 13 years before joining SCL full time. Prior to Covenant, Eric was the Head of Upper School at Faith Christian School in Roanoke, VA. Eric also taught and served in leadership ... more ➔

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Christopher Miller, Ph.D.

Instructor, Gordon College Graduate Leadership
Urban Architect, Glave & Homes Architecture

Christopher Miller returned to architectural practice, after more than twenty years in academia, to work with a like-minded team, at Glavé & Holmes Architecture, Richmond, to make places of human flourishing.
Always central to Miller’s research and teaching has been the architectural treatise of a Renaissance humanist. Alberti’s notion of architecture as good, true, and beautiful civic eloquence has its seed ... more ➔

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Keith Nix

Co-Director and Instructor, Gordon College Graduate Leadership
Head of School, Veritas School

Keith Nix is the Head of School at Veritas School in Richmond, Virginia, a position he has held since 2010. Keith also serves in a variety of leadership roles across the classical Christian school movement. He is on the Board of Academic Advisors for the Classic Learning Test (CLT) and a member of the President's Advisory Council for the Society for Classical Learning (SCL). Nix consults with and coaches classical Christian school boards and ... more ➔

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Salome Palmer

Program Coordinator, Classical School Initiatives at Gordon College
Director, Heritage Program at Gordon College

In her current position at Gordon College, Salome serves as the strategic coordinator for classical school initiatives which includes her work with Gordon's graduate leadership program classical cohort. She also directs Heritage, a summer program for high schoolers, which she founded and launched in the summer of 2021. From high school students attending the Heritage program through graduate students earning the master degree, Salome is passionate ... more ➔

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Christopher Perrin, Ph.D.

Instructor, Gordon College Graduate Leadership
CEO, Classical Academic Press

Christopher Perrin is an author, consultant, and speaker who specializes in classical education. He is committed to the renewal of the liberal arts tradition. He cofounded and serves full-time as the CEO/publisher at Classical Academic Press, a classical education curriculum, media and consulting company. Christopher is also a consultant to charter, public, private and Christian schools across the country. He is the director at the Alcuin Fellowship ... more ➔

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Christopher Schlect, Ph.D.

Instructor, Gordon College Graduate Leadership
Director of Classical Christian Studies, New Saint Andrews College

Christopher R. Schlect, PhD, has taught at New Saint Andrews College for many years. He has earned eleven competitive awards for his research on early 20th century Protestant religious life. He was a 2012 research fellow at the Presbyterian Historical Society and has been awarded the 2016-17 distinguished lectureship for the Association of Reformed Colleges and Universities. Schlect has presented his research at meetings of the American Historical ... more ➔

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John Skillen, Ph.D.

Classical Cohort Founder, Gordon College Graduate Leadership
Founder and Director, Studio for Art, Faith & History

Dr. John Skillen is recently retired after a long tenure at his undergraduate alma mater, Gordon College. After earning his Ph.D. in Literature at Duke University, he served for fifteen years as the medieval and Renaissance literature specialist in Gordon’s English department. Skillen then served for a decade as the founding director of the College’s arts-oriented semester program in Orvieto (Italy), and continues to direct the Orvieto-based ... more ➔

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