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“What is Liberty without Wisdom and without Virtue?”
David L. Weeks is the founding dean of the new Honors College at Azusa Pacific University. He has served as a professor of political science at APU for 30 years and as dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for 17 years. He has published articles and chapters in the Journal of Church and State, Christian Scholar's Review, The Encyclopedia of Political Science, Evangelicals in the Public Square, The Handbook of Virtue Ethics, and The Christian College Phenomenon. He co-edited The Liberal Arts in Higher Education: Challenging Assumptions, Exploring Possibilities. He has served as a scholar-in-residence at the Centre for Scholarship and Christianity in Oxford, England, and as a Salvatori fellow in Washington, DC, and studied at Harvard’s Institute for Management and Leadership in Higher Education. He received grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, Koch Charitable Foundation, Louisville Institute, and the Earhart Foundation. Weeks holds a B.S. from Indiana Wesleyan, an M.A. from Indiana State University, and a Ph.D. in Political Philosophy from Loyola University of Chicago.