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Meet Key People

The ACAS Academic Council presently comprises the Principal, Academic Dean, and representatives of member colleges.

ACAS also has a board, and other teaching staff who are admitted as instructors. ACAS has a teaching staff of about forty at time of writing. Member colleges have their own coordinators or principals.

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Ross Woods
(Academic Dean)

Ross has served in Indonesia for about fifteen years in many roles including theological lecturer, teacher in an international school, research supervisor, board member or advisor for various missions and schools, and language program coordinator. He was the Principal for many years.

His academic background is in theology, missiology, Asian Studies, and education, and his primary area of research interest is contextualisation.

He is a Doctor of Humanities, with a dissertation on the philosophy of educational accreditation. His Australian recognition and Ph.D. equivalence derives from Murdoch University in Western Australia. He is a graduate of Perth Bible College, the Summer Institute of Linguistics, the Western Australian Institute of Technology (now Curtin University of Technology) and the CSR, London.

Randy Salmond

Randy was recently appointed Principal. Originally from Canade and now living in Perth, his background is predominantly working with at-risk youth as a school chaplain and head of Gravity, the training arm of Unyball.