Brother Fergus McArdle, FSC, is the new Vice President for Academic Affairs. Brother is from Ireland, and he has his Ph.D. in Educational Management from the Catholic University in Washington, D.C.

Apart from teaching and working in Ireland for 25 years, Brother Fergus taught in St. John's Brothers' High School in Washington, D.C., and has just completed his post as the Director of Education for all the Brothers' schools in Ireland.

.Brother Jack Curran, FSC, is the new Vice President for Development. He has his undergraduate degrees in Physics and Social Work from Manhattan College, New York, and an M.S.W. and Ph.D. in Social Work from the State University of New York at Albany.

After teaching in schools in New York City and working as a social worker with juvenile delinquents and their families, Brother Jack also worked as a student Counselor at Manhattan College. Brother comes to Bethlehem University after having just served as Vice President for Student Affairs at St. Mary's College, California.

Brother Jack is the oldest of seven brothers and sisters, and he has 15 nephews and nieces. He became a Christian Brother in 1979.

Father Jamal Khader is the new Chairman of the Religious Studies Department. In 1988 he graduated from the Beit Jala Seminary, Beit Jala, and was ordained a Catholic priest. Father Jamal received his Ph.D. from Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, Italy, in 1999, and has been teaching since then in the Beit Jala Seminary, and in the St. Paul Seminary in Cremizan, Bethlehem. Father Jamal has also served as Parish Priest for five years in Ajloun, Jordan.

Dr. Muna Matar has just returned from Belgium where she received her Ph.D. in Information Technology. She is a Bethlehem University alumna, Department of Mathematics, in 1981. Muna has her M.A. from Oregon State University, Oregon, USA since 1985

While in Belgium, she was Project Leader for the E-learning Project at the Institute of Continuing Education at the University of Gant, where she participated in setting up software that enables teachers to put courses on line.

Muna is returning to Bethlehem University as Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Science, Department of Mathematics. She will participate in setting up the new Computer and Information Technology Program.

Brother Henry Chaya, FSC, is Coordinator for the new Computer and Information Technology Program which is being developed. He received his Ph.D. in Material Sciences from Princeton University in 1981, and his M.A. also from Princeton in 1975, and his undergraduate degree from Manhattan College in Sciences in 1973. He became a Christian Brother in 1978.

Brother was a member of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in Manhattan College, New York, since 1981. He served as Chairman of the Department from 1996 - 2000. Brother Henry is an Associate Professor, and he has a number of publications.

Brother Henry likes to sing, and was a member of the Manhattan College Singers for 30 years.