Boone County businessman and candidate for Boone County Commissioner Jesse Brewer received Independent Renter Owners Excellence Award on June 16 from the National Apartment Association (NAA) holding their annual meeting in San Diego, CA.
Jesse Brewer
In accepting the award, Brewer said, “I have worked very hard to improve the quality of life for the people who live in the apartments I own and as well as those I manage for others. This award is a recognition that working collaboratively in the community we can all make a difference in the lives of others when we do that, we can all be proud of our collective achievements.”
Brewer is the first person from the Greater Cincinnati region to receive the Independent Renter Owners Excellence Award for the stewardship of his firm, located in Covington.
Recipients are chosen not only for their ongoing implementation of a successful business model but also demonstrated leadership in innovative and sustainable community building exercises. Brewer’s selection as a recipient of the award recognizes his national record of achievement as a quality housing provider.
The NAA selection committee highlighted Brewer’s involvement with local politics as well as the “Landlord Santa” program, a program Brewer established in partnership with local, regional, and national businesses, that takes underprivileged children shopping during the Christmas holiday season for coats, hats, and gloves.
New dean of Southern Baptist School of Theology
Long-time pastor and New Testament scholar Hershael York will become the new dean of the School of Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville effective August 1, seminary president R. Albert Mohler Jr. announced. York will replace Gregory A. Wills, who completed a five-year term as dean.
Hershael York
“Hershael York will serve superbly as dean,” Mohler said in an interview ahead of the announcement. “He has all the gifts and will bring his own mix of personality and ministry and passion to this role. I’ve had the great pleasure of working with Greg Wills as dean, and I’m really looking forward to having Hershael York serve as dean.”
The School of Theology at Southern Seminary is the school’s oldest and central school, made up of what Mohler called a “classic theology faculty.” The school houses scholars and practitioners in the Old and New Testaments, biblical, historical, and systematic theology, church history, philosophy, ethics, and preaching.
“To be a part of the history of Southern Seminary has been an incredible joy of my life, and now to be a part of that particular position with those that have filled that role before,” said York, referencing the deans of School of Theology who came before him.
Dr. Jung named to national board of directors
Dr. Yuha Jung, assistant professor of Arts Administration at the University of Kentucky, was elected to be on the Board of Directors of the Association of Arts Administration Educators. Jung joins the AAAE board of directors officially in June 2018.
In addition to her professorship at the University of Kentucky, she is a museum scholar and acts as an associate editor for an international museum journal, Museum Management and Curatorship. Her book, Systems Thinking in Museums, was released in 2017. Her research interests center around cultural diversity, engaging diverse audiences, systems theory, organizational structure, fundraising and qualitative research methodologies in arts and cultural studies.
She holds a BFA in painting from Yeungnam University in South Korea, MA in Museum Studies from Syracuse University, MPA from University of Georgia, and PhD in Art Education from the Pennsylvania State University with an emphasis on museum education and management.
