2 Min Read Published on: 03-03-2021 Southern Adventist University’s Board of Trustees is pleased to announce that Ken Shaw will become the university’s 27th president. He will assume office on June 1. Shaw graduated from Southern in 1980 with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and will be the university’s first alumnus to return as president. His entire family graduated from Southern: his wife, Ann (Kennedy), earned her nursing degree in 1979; their daughter, Kate Myers, earned her associate and bachelor’s degrees in nursing in 2008 and 2009; and their son, Martin, earned his pastoral care degree in 2012. “Ann and I cherish our memories from Southern,” Shaw said. “Returning to campus is like coming home for us, and we’re delighted to be part of this institution. I really admire that Southern is still fundamentally centered on its mission and on the core values that the institution has been about for 129 years.”