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In a change from the normal St. Andrews University opening Convocation, a campus wide and community gathering on the first day of classes kicked off the beginning of the 2018-2019 academic year. Usually the event is held during orientation week for new and transfer students along with parents who were still on campus followed by a picnic.  Discussions began earlier this year about a first-week convocation experience that would be open to all students and staff to attend the 11 a.m. gathering. Classes on the first day, Aug. 21, were

Perhaps it was inevitable or some predictable physics formula that would dictate what Allen Dotson would do or become.  Born in Badin, NC, his father was a chemist;  his brother was a mathematician. And so he became an amalgamation of sorts—a physicist—having once considered biology and even the lure of astronomy (which he continues to dabble in). But eventually the enticement of quantum mechanics inspired him to look at physics and the rest of that narrative led him to a B.S. at Wake Forest (1960) and a Ph.D. at UNC

For a few days in late May, a St. Andrews University alumna was creating a stir nationally with her grammatical critique of a White House letter.  Yvonne Mason, class of 1978, and similar to what she had done for 17 years as a high school English teacher, took purple pen to paper, circled mistakes, wrote notes, highlighted redundancies and generally “graded” the letter for its syntax and rhetorical style. And then, she mailed it back to the White House.  It went viral, and Ms. Mason began to be interviewed by

When Kaitlin Griego came to St. Andrews University five years to begin working as an athletic trainer, she knew amid all of her training how to tape and assess injury, but it was another evolving task that recently gained attention at a symposium for athletic trainers:  working with international student-athletes, specifically the SAU men’s soccer team. In other words, as she says, “I had to learn so much more than I knew about patience, about describing body parts such as there are no words for toes in some Spanish speaking

As meticulously noted in “The Mythic School of the Mountain: Black Mountain College” (Our State magazine, Joseph Bathanti, NC poet laureate, April ’14), a small and rural college became known as perhaps the boldest and most progressive educational experience in American history.  “The purpose of the college is to lead on to creative consciousness a carefully selected group of young men and women who are eager to know, to will and to do.” And it was revolutionary:  no directors or trustees;  not accredited;  hand-made diplomas (for those who actually graduated, perhaps