Greetings. It's a pleasure to welcome you to this RTS campus and a privilege to be the president of this innovative approach to graduate-level theological education. My name is Andy Peterson, and I live with my family and two Goldens in Charlotte, North Carolina. I also teach Educational Ministries in the Church, Pastoral Counseling, and Disabilities and the Church.

My main professional focus for the past nine years has been building this "virtual campus" for Reformed Theological Seminary. To date, RTS/Virtual has over 30 available courses, including the first and most convenient distance masters degree at an accredited seminary (MA/Distance).We are using web conferencing with live and playback courses as well as a content database for the Virtual students, http://www.centra.com/. We also have some special programs for those with significant disabilities and prisoners.

As the lead administrator for twenty full-time and part-time, on-site and virtual staff, my oversight includes customer service, promotional marketing, student services, course development, and educational technology. RTS/Virtual is a great team that works hard and enjoys being productive.

How did I get here? Good question. The brief roadmap is from licensed psychologist in Pennsylvania where I worked for six years at a community mental health center, to professor of psychology for counseling and teacher training courses for Grove City College, a four-year liberal arts college north of Pittsburgh, to professor of pastoral counseling at a seminary in Escondido, California, to educational technologist at Santa Fe Foundation in Solana Beach, and then to UC San Diego where we established the first Multimedia Development Center for faculty development of digital presentations in 1995 (just as the Internet hit!). While in southern California (SOCAL), I consulted with businesses and schools on the use of educational technology and continue to do that consulting with the virtual campus concept now. “Every business needs to have a virtual campus.”

So, my professional themes are education, business and counseling with help from theology as well as technology. Tours in academia have been at Western Washington University (BA, Psychology), UC Berkeley (MA, Educational Psychology), and University of Pittsburgh (PhD, Educational Communications and Technology). In North Carolina, I serve as an elder at Christ Covenant Church (PCA). Welcome to the campus!