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Convocation at St. Andrews University, a branch of Webber International University, will be an open event to celebrate the beginning of the academic year. All new and returning students, faculty and staff will gather in Harris Courts in the Physical Education Building on Tuesday, Aug. 21, at 11 a.m. for the traditional university start. This year St. Andrews invites the Laurinburg and Scotland County community to attend. New students will be piped from the academic side across the Causeway by Piper Major Bill Caudill ‘89 and met by faculty members

Pioneer College Caterers provides food service for St. Andrews University and has announced that a new food service director has been assigned to St. Andrews. Brian Oliver replaces Brian Johnson who was at St. Andrews for the past two years and was recently promoted to a district manager position in the Midwest for Pioneer. Mr. Oliver arrived July 1, having been with Pioneer at Campbellsville University (KY) since 2016.  His duties there consisted of hiring, training and supervising 50-75 hourly and student workers in the main dining room, supervising the

The annual Laurinburg Area Campaign for St. Andrews University exceeded its 2018 goal of raising $500,000 from the Laurinburg/Scotland County community.   Co-chairs Richard and Betsy Massey, both of whom are alumni, reported that the campaign exceeded the goal by raising $503,203 during the university’s fiscal year ending May 31, 2018.  Just over 200 individuals, businesses, corporations and local alumni made 243 gifts to the campaign.  Gifts to the campaign are used for student scholarships, faculty support, and the maintenance of campus buildings and grounds.  “Betsy and I would like to

SAU photographer’s photos selected for architectural publication St. Andrews University photographer and logistics director Rooney Coffman’s photographs of St. Andrews campus have been selected for a forthcoming publication in “The Cultural Landscape Foundation and Pioneers of American Landscape Design” (an in-depth multimedia library chronicling the lives of significant landscape architects and educators). Mr. Coffman’s photographs display buildings and grounds that are credited to the architect Lewis Clarke who is the “original master planner” of St. Andrews campus, an Englishman who was at North Carolina State University School of Design and

Conner Smith, a graduating senior from Gastonia, NC, won the 2018 Intercollegiate Horse Shows Association (IHSA) National Championship Horse Show Team Open Western Horsemanship and earned the AQHA High Point Western Rider.  His St. Andrews team went on to finish fourth in national competition against schools including Ohio State University, Middle Tennessee State University and the first place team from the University of Findlay (OH). Results were released on May 8.  The competition was held at the Pennsylvania Farm Complex in Harrisburg, PA.  St. Andrew’s Hunter Seat Team finished 10th in