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APU Names New Director of Operation Impact
April 17, 2008
AZUSA, Calif. –
Azusa Pacific University welcomes Petros G. Malakyan, Ph.D., as the new director of Operation Impact, part of the Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership Program in the School of Behavioral and Applied Sciences.
Malakyan holds two master’s degrees in intercultural studies and theology, and a Ph.D. in Intercultural Studies with a concentration in leadership. He founded Christian Leadership International, Inc. in Southern California and the National Leadership Institute in Yerevan, Armenia, where he served as president and CEO prior to his appointment at APU. He has taught at various institutions around the world including Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, Calif.; St. Petersburg Evangelical Theological Academy, Russia; the Armenian Evangelical Theological Academy in Yerevan, Armenia; and at Haggai Institute, Maui, Hawaii. More recently, Malakyan taught courses in Mexico and Ethiopia for the Operation Impact Program.
The Operation Impact (OI) Program at APU provides educational support internationally to leaders of mission, government, nongovernmental, and nonprofit organizations by delivering the Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership in a distributed-learning approach to global-learning groups worldwide. One or two week intensives held throughout the year are followed by semester-long study projects contracted for each course with professors via the Internet, including email and APU Library resources. For more information, visit www.apu.edu/bas/highered/operationimpact/.
Featured in TIME magazine and ranked as one of the nation’s best by U.S.News & World Report and The Princeton Review, Azusa Pacific is a comprehensive, Christian, evangelical university, committed to God First and known for excellence in higher education. Azusa Pacific’s main campus lies just 26 miles northeast of Los Angeles in the San Gabriel Valley, while its seven Southern California regional centers bring convenience and extend quality programming. The university offers more than 50 areas of undergraduate study, 23 master's degrees, and 7 doctorates to a total student population of more than 8,100.
