The Van Normans

Ian and Alice Van Norman are longtime supporters of Tyndale, and in Spring 2011 they continued their support and partnership by providing the funds so that Tyndale could establish the new Chair of Business. The Van Norman Chair of Business is an endowed professorship intended to provide leadership and vision to the business programs within the evangelical, trans-denominational context of Tyndale.

In addition to teaching, research, and service, the Chair will offer instruction and mentoring to students preparing for vocations in the world of business and management. The Chair will aid the university in equipping Christian students to take their places in the marketplace as ethical leaders in national and international contexts.

The Chair is named to honour Ian and Alice Van Norman, Christians whose exemplary lives of faith and service have influenced the business culture in Canada, and whose passionate commitment to work in Haiti and other places around the world flows out of their faithful dedication to the marginalized and broken. The Tyndale community is incredibly grateful to the Van Normans for their friendship as well as the generous gift that previously enabled the University to renovate the chapel on the Ballyconnor campus.

Tyndale’s business programs are focused on preparing students to lead, manage and serve with integrity, competence, and skill in for-profit businesses, not-for-profit organizations and NGOs, both nationally and globally. Business faculty members at Tyndale seek to influence the Canadian academic arena by equipping students to serve and lead in the various sectors of business and management in Canada and the world.