Since August of 2002, Everett Piper has served as the fifth president of Oklahoma Wesleyan University. His credentials include a B.A. from Spring Arbor University, a M.A. from Bowling Green State University, and a Ph.D. from Michigan State University.
Dr. Piper’s career includes twenty five years of administrative work within the realm of higher education. Prior to becoming the OKWU president he served in a succession of vice presidential roles in the areas of Student Development, Institutional Advancement, Enrollment Services, and Capital Projects. Other leadership roles have included the Chairman of the Bartlesville Chamber of Commerce, member of the Arvest Bank Advisory Board, member of the Bartlesville Symphony Orchestra Board of Trustees, member of the General Board of the Wesleyan Church of North America, former President of the Association for Christians in Student Development, Adjunct Scholar for the Oklahoma Council for Public Affairs, and a current member of the Council for National Policy. Dr. Piper contributes regularly as a writer for the Examiner Enterprise, Chuck Colson’s Breakpoint magazine, Crosswalk.com, Politicalmavens.com as well as the Oklahoma Council for Public Affairs’ Perspectives magazine.
Dr. Piper speaks boldly and unapologetically on issues such as natural law, unalienable rights, self evident truths, and the unavoidable consequences of ideas on personal, political, community and corporate wellbeing. He challenges his academic and political peers for what he calls their “fallacious Orwellian duplicity” of “intolerant tolerance.” His commentary rhetorically confronts the reader and listener to consider issues such as freedom, justice, common sense, human dignity, sexual responsibility and moral objectivity. Piper is specifically passionate in arguing that postmodern political correctness is really nothing more than an unvarnished ploy to consolidate power among society’s elites and to, thus, restrict the individual freedoms and rights of the general public. He claims that without an objective moral standard (above and beyond the subjective feelings and wishes of those in power) there is no freedom, there is no justice, and there is no liberty. Opinion as the final measure of right and wrong always leads to the rise of the “rule of the gang” or “the tyranny of one.”
Piper’s first book is scheduled for publication in September of 2009. The title will be Why I’m a Liberal: And Other Conservative Ideas.
Dr. Piper and his wife Marci of 25 years have two sons, Seth (17) and Cobi (14).