https://www.fuller.edu/posts/in-memoriam-russell-p-spittler/
""Russ Spittler played a significant role not only in bringing Fuller into the 21st century, but also in supporting and undergirding the elevation of the seminary's academic profile, so that by the end of the 1990s, Fuller was one of the leading evangelical seminaries in the world," said Amos Yong, dean of the School of Mission and Theology..."