Schubert's appointment was publicly announced on February 12, 2010, and he formally took office June 1, 2010, succeeding Royce Money.
[2] Before joining Abilene Christian University in 1993, Schubert worked as an auditor for Arthur Andersen & Co. in Dallas, Texas.
On October 19, 1998, Abilene Christian University named him the chief financial officer after five years of employment.
His doctoral dissertation was entitled "Assessing the correlation between longitudinal changes in U.S. News & World Report Collegiate Rankings and the broader institutional experience from 1999 to 2007".
His father, Joe D. Schubert, Ed.D., was a dean of students at Oklahoma Christian College in the late 1960s and a well-known preacher in the Churches of Christ, including Bammel Road Church of Christ in Houston, which was the first congregation to collect over $1 million in a single Sunday special contribution.