20 March 2024
The Reverend Dr Brian Rosner has announced he will finish his role as principal of Ridley College at the end of 2024.
Dr Rosner said he decided to finish after much prayer and counsel, seeking God’s wisdom for his future in the Kingdom of God and in serving God, speaking in a video on the Ridley College website.
The Ridley College board confirmed it had met to plan for the process of appointing its next principal, in a message on the college website.
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Speaking in the video, Dr Rosner said he counted it an enormous privilege to have served as principal of Ridley College.
“My heart is full of gratitude for so many things,” Dr Rosner said.
“For dedicated students and graduates, for excellent colleagues, for members of the board, for the Anglican Diocese of Melbourne, our archbishop and bishops, for the encouragement of Peter Adam and Graham Cole, two previous principals, for our generous supporters, and for my wife Nat and our family, for coming along for what has been sometimes a pretty wild ride.”
Dr Rosner said he would spend 2025 on research leave, and return in 2026 as a lecturer at the college, focussed on teaching, speaking and writing.
Dr Rosner has been principal of Ridley College since 2012.
Ridley College announced the news on its website with a message from board chair Seak-King Huang and acting principal the Reverend Dr Andrew Judd.
Ms Huang and Dr Judd said everyone had benefited from Dr Rosner’s enthusiastic teaching and preaching, warm and collaborative style of leadership, world-leading biblical scholarship, and passion for promoting the gospel.
Dr Rosner announced he would finish as principal during chapel at Ridley College on Tuesday.
Ms Huang and Dr Judd urged readers to pray that God would continue to provide for the college and help members conduct themselves in a manner worthy of the gospel, that Dr Rosner would finish well as principal and serve God fruitfully in years to come, and for the board as it began its search for Ridley College’s next principal.
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