Office of the President

Greetings. It's a pleasure to welcome you to this RTS campus and a privilege to be the president of this innovative approach to graduate-level theological education. My name is Andy Peterson, and I live with my family in Charlotte, North Carolina. I also teach Educational Ministries in the Church, Pastoral Counseling, and Disabilities and the Church.

My main professional focus for more than a decade has been building the Virtual Campus for Reformed Theological Seminary. To date, RTS Virtual has over 30 available courses, including the first and most convenient distance masters degree (M.A. in Religion) at an accredited seminary. As the lead administrator for twenty full-time and part-time, on-site and virtual staff, my oversight includes customer service, promotional marketing, student services, course development, and educational technology. The RTS Virtual team works hard and enjoys being productive.

How did I get here? Good question. Briefly, my professional roadmap has included licensed psychologist in Pennsylvania, where I worked for six years at a community mental health center, professor of psychology for counseling and teacher training courses for Grove City College, a four-year liberal arts college north of Pittsburgh, professor of pastoral counseling at a seminary in Escondido, California, and educational technologist at Santa Fe Foundation in Solana Beach. Afterward, I joined UC San Diego, where we established the first Multimedia Development Center, for faculty development of digital presentations in 1995. While in southern California, I consulted with businesses and schools on the use of educational technology and continue to do that consulting with the virtual campus concept now. Every business needs to have a virtual campus.

My professional themes are education, business and counseling with help from theology, as well as technology. Tours in academia have been at Western Washington University (BA, Psychology), UC Berkeley (MA, Educational Psychology), and University of Pittsburgh (Ph.D., Educational Communications and Technology).

Welcome to RTS Virtual, and we look forward to hearing from you!