Meet the Deans

Dr. Nickolas Fox, Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Ministry

We are pleased to announce Dr. Nickolas Fox as the Associate Dean of the Graduate School of Ministry (GSOM). Dr. Fox has been serving as the Chair of the Department of Biblical, Theological, and Ministry Studies (BTMS) for the on-campus programs and has been a full-time faculty member of Crown College for two years. Before that, Dr. Fox served as the Spiritual Care Manager for Minnesota Adult and Teen Challenge and taught as an adjunct for several area schools, including more than ten years at Crown College.

As Associate Dean, Dr. Fox will work with Dr. Bill Kuhn, Dean of the School of Theology and Ministry, the core faculty of the Graduate School of Ministry, and the faculty of BTMS to strengthen the Graduate School of Ministry through increased academic rigor and reputation, growth in enrollment, and alignment with the standards of the Association of Theological Schools.

Dr. Jim Zapf, Dean School of Professional Studies

Dr. Zapf earned his PhD in Academic Psychology in 2007 from Walden University. He is licensed as a clinical mental health counselor in MN (LPCC-S) and CO (LPC). He is the Dean of the School of Professional Studies and the Graduate School of Counseling at Crown College and co-owner of Ethos Collective (Counseling) in Broomfield, CO. In addition to teaching counselor education since 2007, Dr. Zapf has experience working in private practice, residential treatment, college counseling, and partial hospitalization. His areas of expertise and clinical interest include sexual addiction and couples’ therapy. He was awarded the Distinguished Teaching Award at Crown College in 2011. Publications include articles on Service Learning, Sexual Addiction, Student Motivation in Counselor Program Selection, and Online Counselor Education in a Covid World . Dr. Zapf provides oversight of all programs that reside under the School of Professional Studies. His education includes: Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration, Grace College and Theological Seminary, Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, Grace College and Theological Seminary, Master of Arts in Biblical Counseling, Grace Theology Seminary, Doctor of Philosophy in Psychology, Walden University. Dr. Zapf and his wife live in Denver, Colorado and have 8 children and 9 grandchildren. 

Dr. Bill Bojan, Dean of the Business School

As Dean of the School of Business at Crown College, I am responsible for the Academic Excellence, Enrollment Growth and Retention, and External Relationships for the School of Business.

At Crown, we have a firm commitment to be a boldly Christian college, teaching students the Ways of God. This means not “backing down” on our Christian values, not “watering down” the Kingdom Truths we stand firm on, but instead “doubling down” on Christian love as an authentic witness for Christ in the world.  The Crown College School of Business is committed to forming graduates who are courageously activating their Kingdom calling in the marketplace. We are equipping future Christian leaders who are fully prepared to build God’s Kingdom in business.

The three Crown Kingdom Institutes: Leadership, Entrepreneurship, and Digital are being established in 2025 with the purpose of leading, equipping, and unifying the current and future Christian business leadership community as Kingdom change-agents. The Crown Institutes will exist to provide unique and compelling insights and experiences that change hearts – serving undergraduate students up to highly experienced business leaders.

This “next leg” of my career journey in Higher Education, while quite unexpected, has emerged as the natural progression of a call God put on my life over 15 years ago to be a messenger, teacher, and equipper of “God’s Way” of leading, governing, and stewarding in business. Learning “God’s Way” resulted from powerful experiences in the corporate world that showed me in a very direct way what happens when even good companies, with good missions, and good leaders depart from God’s Ways of leading, governing,  and stewarding God’s Authority. God’s Way requires Leaders of Virtue in the model of Jesus Christ, who build Cultures of Trust in the model of the beatitudes, and submit to Structures of Integrity in the model of the Holy Trinity. God’s Ways must be better known and followed in the marketplace.