Georgetown—Georgetown College’s Board of Trustees has extended the contract of President William Crouch another four years, according to a Nov. 7 press release from the school. Crouch’s previous contract was set to expire June 30, 2009.

“The Board of Trustees of Georgetown College is elated that Dr. Crouch has agreed to continue on this remarkable journey with us for another four years,” said board chairman J. Guthrie True in announcing the extension.

Crouch became Georgetown College’s 23rd president in 1991. During his tenure, he has focused on expanding the school’s diversity through partnerships with African-American Baptist associations and the adoption of the alumni of Bishop College, a historically black school in Dallas that closed in 1988.

“The extraordinary vision and leadership of Bill Crouch over the past 17 years has moved the college to a position of national recognition as an outstanding academic institution,” True noted. “I have no doubt that his contributions over the next four years will set the stage for a transformation of the college that exceeds our wildest expectations.”

Should he complete his current contract, Crouch would become the longest tenured president in Georgetown’s history, which began in 1829.

Crouch is graduate of Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, N.C. He and his wife, Jan, have five children and two grandchildren.