Administration
Alan Rabe, Ph.D., Dean of School of Graduate
Dr. Rabe came to Hope with twenty-seven years of university teaching and administrative experience including work at Liberty University, Illinois State University, Central Michigan University and the State University of New York (SUNY). He graduated from Western Illinois University in 1968 with a major in Health Education. After he finished his student teaching, he completed his Master’s degree in Community Health and Safety at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. In 1970, he accepted a teaching assistantship at the University of Utah where he completed his Ph.D. in Health Science. In the Fall of 1971, he and his family moved to Central Michigan University where he began a career of teaching in Health Education and Health Science. In 1989, he completed the MRE degree with honors at Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary.
In 1994, Dr. Rabe felt called by God to Food for the Hungry International (FHI) to become involved as a missionary in health and community development work. This endeavor took him to over thirty countries to work among the world’s poorest peoples. In 1995, he co-founded the International Development program on-line in the Graduate Management Department at Hope International University. After serving for ten years with FHI and teaching distance learning part-time through Hope, Dr. Rabe was asked to consider joining the University full-time as Dean in the School of Graduate Studies. He accepted the challenge and moved with his wife Linda to Brea, California in the summer of 2003.
Over his extensive career, Dr. Rabe has been a member and officer in over twenty professional organizations, presented more than fifty professional presentations at state, national and international meetings, published over twenty-five articles and four books, and directed seminars in some thirty countries worldwide. Currently he serves on various boards including College of Information Technology (CA), Orange County Red Cross (CA), AIBI Mission (CA), and Cedarville University Nursing Council (OH). He was editor of a most recent book, Hope for the Future: Contemporary Values of the Restoration Movement that was published at Hope. Numerous honors include Two-Thousand Notable American Men (1992), Who’s Who in American Education (1991, 1992, 1994), Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers (1994, 2005). He has received numerous awards from the American Red Cross, American Heart Association, and ETA Sigma Gamma National Health Science Honorary. He has served as a deacon and elder in four different churches and currently is an elder at Diamond Canyon Christian Church in Diamond Bar, CA.
Alan has been married to his high school sweetheart Linda for forty-two years in 2007 and she is a nurse. They have two grown children a son Douglas who is a computer analyst and daughter Debra is an elementary school teacher finishing a graduate degree in speech pathology.