The Fresno Pacific University community came together November 8 to inaugurate D. Merrill Ewert as 10th president.

D. Merrill Ewert has joined Fresno Pacific University as president. Ewert comes to FPU from Cornell University, where he served as professor, director and associate dean of Cornell Cooperative Extension.

The next president of Fresno Pacific University plans to serve the community as well as the campus.

D. Merrill Ewert will become the university’s 10th president in July of 2002. “FPU’s vision resonates with my personal commitment to promote higher education, to strengthen communities and to build people and institutions in an increasingly pluralistic society,” he said.