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Harry Fernhout is president of The King's University College, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
A former president of the Institute for Christian Studies,Toronto, he holds doctoral and master's degrees in Philosophy of Education from the University of Toronto, as well as a master's degree in Philosophy from the Institute for Christian Studies. Prior to his presidency at ICS, he served that institution as vice president and professor.
The youngest of five children, he was born in Holland and emigrated with his family to Thunder Bay, Ontario at the age of three. Initially feeling led into the ministry he entered Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa, graduating in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy. During a year of pre-seminary study and reflection at the newly-opened Institute for Christian Studies (ICS) in Toronto, he decided his calling lay not in the ministry, but in the academic arena. His distinguished career at the Institute for Christian Studies spanned 20 years. He is credited with tremendous accomplishments during 16 years in the presidential post: two successful capital campsigns, affiliation with the Toronto School of Theology, and becoming one of the first privately-funded independent academic institutions in Canada to grant its own doctorate degree.
He is married to Hilda (Dykstra) Fernhout. The couple has four children and two grandchildren.
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Harry Fernhout is president of The King's University College, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
A former president of the Institute for Christian Studies,Toronto, he holds doctoral and master's degrees in Philosophy of Education from the University of Toronto, as well as a master's degree in Philosophy from the Institute for Christian Studies. Prior to his presidency at ICS, he served that institution as vice president and professor.
The youngest of five children, he was born in Holland and emigrated with his family to Thunder Bay, Ontario at the age of three. Initially feeling led into the ministry he entered Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa, graduating in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy. During a year of pre-seminary study and reflection at the newly-opened Institute for Christian Studies (ICS) in Toronto, he decided his calling lay not in the ministry, but in the academic arena. His distinguished career at the Institute for Christian Studies spanned 20 years. He is credited with tremendous accomplishments during 16 years in the presidential post: two successful capital campsigns, affiliation with the Toronto School of Theology, and becoming one of the first privately-funded independent academic institutions in Canada to grant its own doctorate degree.
He is married to Hilda (Dykstra) Fernhout. The couple has four children and two grandchildren.
Articles
Education in a pluralist society (1996)
'Christian schooling: telling a worldview story' Crumbling Walls of Certainty editors Ian Lambert and Suzanne Mitchell (Gracewing, 1998)
'Christian schooling: telling a worldview story' Crumbling Walls of Certainty editors Ian Lambert and Suzanne Mitchell (Gracewing, 1998)
