Andrew College News

CUTHBERT, GA (May 22, 2023)-Andrew College has announced the establishment of the Aderhold Chair of Nursing thanks to an endowed gift of $1.5 million from Andrew Alumni Tom and Kay Aderhold in support of the College’s nursing program. Dr. Linda R. Buchanan, President of Andrew, describes the gift as one of the largest individual gifts in the history of the College and a ringing endorsement of the importance of Andrew’s efforts to graduate superior registered nurses to serve Southwest Georgia. 

Buchanan stated, “We are so grateful to Tom and Kay Aderhold for their continuing and significant generosity. We could not have started our nursing program in 2017 without their initial support, and this gift just solidifies their commitment to their alma mater.”

Board of Trustee Chair George Flowers added, “This gift solidifies Andrew’s commitment to nursing education and will motivate others to support the College and our nursing program. We are deeply grateful to the Aderholds for their generosity.”

Above photo detail: Pictured are Andrew College Nursing Director Michelle Collins with donors Kay and Tom Aderhold after the 2023 Nursing and Respiratory Therapy Pinning Ceremony. Photo by Heather Bradley, permission to print is granted.

Photo detail: President Linda R. Buchanan, donors Tom and Kay Aderhold, and Board of Trustees Chair, George Flowers, at the 2023 Andrew College Commencement Ceremony.  Photo by Andrew College, permission to print is granted.

About Andrew College

Established in 1854, Andrew College is related to The United Methodist Church and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges. Situated in the rural southwest Georgia community of Cuthbert, Andrew College offers the Associate of Art, Associate of Science, Associate Degree in Nursing, Bachelor of Science and Certificates.

CUTHBERT, GA (April 3, 2023)-Andrew College is hosting the 5th Annual Arts ‘Round the Square Festival on Saturday, April 22, from 11 am to 3 pm in historic downtown Cuthbert. The festival will feature art, theatre, music, and more. The Magnolia Alley Market will have arts and crafts vendors and area food trucks on the square. The event is free and open to the public, and all ages are welcome. Be sure to check out the Andrew College homecoming parade that will make its way around the square starting at 10 am.

Arts ‘Round the Square is made possible by the Georgia Council for the Arts and sponsors, including Adams Family Pharmacy, Bobbie Liggett, Brumby Foods in Shellman, Colony House Furniture Company, The Dawg House, First State Bank of Randolph County, P&P Land Services, and the Randolph County Board of Commissioners.

Visit https://www.andrewcollege.edu/arts-round-the-square/ or the event section of the Andrew College website for more information, including a schedule of events and a festival map.

Photo(s) detail: Students perform during the 4th annual Arts “Round the Square, provided by Heather Bradley; permission to print is granted.

About Andrew College

Established in 1854, Andrew College is related to The United Methodist Church and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges. Situated in the rural southwest Georgia community of Cuthbert, Andrew College offers the Associate of Art, Associate of Science, Associate Degree in Nursing, Bachelor of Science and Certificates.

CUTHBERT, GA (February 17, 2023) —Members of Andrew College Theatre traveled to Georgia Southern University to participate in Region 4 of KCACTF. In attendance were Woodall Academic Honorees: Dylan Kelly, Chance Mock, and Koldyn Swift, as well as Isaiah Carroll, Darris “D.J.” Hodges, Jr., Leshunti Mizell, Mailan McTier, and Hyde Wright. Associate Professor Deborah Liss-Green and Dean of Student Affairs Chicquan Cannon accompanied them to the competition.
Koldyn Swift and D.J. Hodges were nominated to participate in the Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship competition based on their performances in the fall production, which was entered as a KCACTF Associate Entry. At the Festival, D.J. performed in the Student Award-winning One-Act play reading. In addition to these acting honors, the following students received Woodall Grants to support their travel and participation:

Dylan Kelly participated in the Institute for Theatre Journalism and Advocacy at KCACTF Region 4.  For each of the four full days at the Festival, Dylan participated in workshops with the ITJA leaders and the guest artist, Jose Solís, a Honduran cultural critic. He is the founder/director of the BIPOC Critics Lab and the creator/host of Token Theatre Friends. During the workshops, Dylan participated in discussions and critical writing on the shows presented at the Festival. He received Honorable Mention honors at the concluding Gala.

Chance Mock was nominated to participate in the Dramaturgy Fellowship during KCACTF Region 4. His nomination was based on his dramaturgy work in our fall production for youth, “Trickster Tales,”; for which he did research and created educational materials for the school groups that attended. Before the Festival, he created a dramaturgy casebook to showcase his work that was reviewed by the professional dramaturg Heather Helinsky. Heather Helinsky is a freelance dramaturg based in Philadelphia and the new Literary Manager for Playwrights Foundation and Jewish Plays Project.

Koldyn Swift organized and led the Andrew College Theatre student-devised work that was entered into the Region Devised Theatre competition. He led the creation of an original performance piece that was inspired by the Kennedy Center National Devised Theatre Prompt:  “To See and to Be Seen.” Their piece received responses from three professional performers and professors, including Festival Guest Artist–Bill Bowers, a Broadway veteran and renowned mime artist. The piece featured Koldyn, Malain, Chance, and Isaiah and was chosen to be performed at the closing festival gala and received a certificate for Excellence in Devised Theatre. Leshunti and Hyde served as the stage managers of the performance.

During the closing Gala, Deb Liss-Green was named an incoming Vice-Chair of Region IV. She will serve in this capacity for three years and as Co-Chair of the Region for three years.

About Andrew College

Established in 1854, Andrew College is related to The United Methodist Church and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges. Situated in the rural southwest Georgia community of Cuthbert, Andrew College offers the Associate of Art, Associate of Science, Associate Degree in Nursing, Bachelor of Science and Certificates.

For more information about Andrew College, visit www.andrewcollege.edu.

CUTHBERT, GA (March 3, 2023)-Andrew College has named Dr. William “Rusty” Kennedy, currently the Vice President of Admissions and Athletics at Midway University, as its next president. The announcement comes after a national search that began after Dr. Linda R. Buchanan, who has served as president for the last eight years, announced her retirement in September.

“We are really excited about Rusty Kennedy becoming our next president. He brings an array of skills, experience, and character attributes that will serve Andrew and the community well. The trustees were unanimous in their vote to elect him, and we heard great things about him from faculty, staff, students, and community members. The Search Committee felt that he was a great fit and can bring exactly what we need at this point in the life of the College. We are grateful to Linda Buchanan for her vision and leadership over the past eight years, and we feel that Rusty will complement and build upon her outstanding contributions,” said George Flowers, Chairman of the Board of Trustees.

Kennedy has experience at several public and private institutions, and his portfolio over the past several years includes progressive experience in intercollegiate athletics, student services, and admissions/enrollment. He earned his undergraduate degree from Oklahoma Wesleyan University, a graduate degree from Southern Nazarene University, and a doctorate in business administration from the University of the Cumberlands. He will start his duties as Andrew College’s 30th president on June 5th.

CUTHBERT, GA (February 17, 2023) —Andrew College signed its first Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for graduates of its bachelors programs. Georgia College and State University reached out to establish a seamless transfer of Andrew’s graduates of the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration into GCSU’s Georgia WebMBA®, Master of Logistics and Supply Chain Management (MLSCM), Master of Management Information Systems (MMIS), and MMIS Online Graduate Certificates in the J. Whitney Bunting College of Business and Technology.

Present at the virtual signing were Andrew College officials: President Dr. Linda Buchanan, Dean of Academic Affairs Dr. Karan Pittman, Division Coordinator of Social Sciences Dr. Charles Roberts, Assistant Professor of Business Administration and Business Administration Program Coordinator Dr. Robert S. Kortbawi, Assistant Professor of Business Administration Dr. Chris Serafin, and Professor of English and Coordinator of Program Development and Accreditation Amanda Knight. From GCSU, officials included  Dr. Holley Roberts, Associate Provost of Academic Affairs and Director of The Graduate School; Dr. Micheal Stratton, Dean of the College of Business; Dr. Tanya Goette, Associate Dean of the College of Business; Kari Brown, Coordinator, Business Outreach, Cassie Napier, Graduate Admissions Recruiter, Dr. James Arias, Chair, Economics, and Finance Dept., Dr. Scott Cox, Assistant Professor of Management, Dr. Whitney Ginder, Associate Professor Marketing, Dr. Mehrnaz Khalaj Hedayati, Assistant Professor of Management, Leigh MacLeod, Administrative Assistant for the Management, Logistics, and Marketing Dept., Dr. Bill Donoher, Chair, Management, Logistics, and Marketing Dept., and Dr. Sandria Stephenson, Assistant Professor of Accounting.

“We are excited to partner with Georgia College and State University in our first articulation agreement for graduates of our bachelor programs,” stated Andrew College President Linda R. Buchanan, Ph.D. “We hope this pathway between our institutions will encourage more students to pursue their master’s.

Through the agreement, all students interested in a career in business that complete the appropriate bachelor’s degree program can continue online and/or in classroom settings.

About Andrew College

Established in 1854, Andrew College is related to The United Methodist Church and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges. Situated in the rural southwest Georgia community of Cuthbert, Andrew College offers the Associate of Art, Associate of Science, Associate Degree in Nursing, Bachelor of Science and Certificates.

For more information about Andrew College, visit www.andrewcollege.edu.

CUTHBERT, GA (February 10, 2023) —Andrew College is pleased to announce that Linus Landahl has been awarded the Alouise K. and Albert W. Ray Scholarship for the academic year 2022-2023. Mrs. Kathy King, Andrew College presidential daughter, and trustee, has generously funded a unique scholarship for an academically promising freshman student. The scholarship will be awarded in January and will cover one semester of study at Andrew College and a unique, independent travel-study experience for the student. With this travel-study scholarship, Mrs. King hopes to strengthen the awardee, personally, academically, and intellectually: she asserts “Our perspective about most subjects is shaped by the range of our exposure. Travel increases that range of exposure and our comfort level with unfamiliar situations. Travel also facilitates the integration of abstract concepts to enhance critical thinking… My husband and I decided to include a travel provision in this scholarship because we had each experienced how travel broadened our perspective, range of interests, and self-confidence.” The awardee, Linus Landahl, is a member of the Andrew College Golf Team, and nominating professor Dr. Bob Kortbawi comments that Linus “has displayed rigor and drive toward his academics as well as his golf.” Linus, a Swedish citizen, plans to use his study-travel award to go to Minnesota during the summer of 2023 and research the history of Swedish immigration to the United States. He will return to Andrew College for Fall 2023 and share his research with presentations to the campus. Linus says, “I want to thank Mrs. Kathy King for the phenomenal opportunity and look forward to meeting her when I complete this journey.”

Photo detail: President Linda R. Buchanan congratulates student Linus Landahl on receiving the 2022-2023 Ray Scholarship.

About Andrew College

Established in 1854, Andrew College is related to The United Methodist Church and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges. Situated in the rural southwest Georgia community of Cuthbert, Andrew College offers the Associate of Art, Associate of Science, Associate Degree in Nursing, Bachelor of Science and Certificates.

For more information about Andrew College, visit www.andrewcollege.edu.

CUTHBERT, GA (January 9, 2023) — Georgia Southwestern State University (GSW) and Andrew College recently signed a Pathway Memorandum of Understanding that is designed to ensure a smooth transition from associate degree programs at Andrew to GSW’s Bachelor’s degree program in Long-Term Care Management (LTCM) program.

Through the Pathway Program agreement, all students interested in a career in Long-Term Care Management can continue online and/or in classroom settings. Andrew graduates who have completed the appropriate degree (Associate of Science in Nursing or Associate of Science in Respiratory Therapy) that is required in the LTCM curriculum can take advantage of this opportunity.

“According to the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid there are currently 14 million people receiving some form of long-term care and that number is expected to double by 2050.  Our partnership with Georgia Southwestern will help contribute to the workforce needs for Southwest Georgia and beyond,” stated Andrew College President Linda R. Buchanan, Ph.D.

“We are excited to partner with Andrew College in educating the caregivers our aging and disabled communities desperately need,” said GSW President Neal Weaver, Ph.D. “We hope that in simplifying the transition from institution to institution, more students are encouraged to pursue long-term care as a career.”

“Our nation has a growing number of older adults and individuals with disabilities,” said GSW Associate Dean and Professor Leisa Easom, Ph.D. “The LTCM degree addresses the multi-disciplinary elements in education and training required in the preparation of our healthcare workforce today to meet the needs of these populations.”

Unique to the GSW campus is the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving (RCI) where the creation of this degree began. In prior years, Easom served as the RCI executive director and experienced firsthand how families across the nation are struggling to connect with community resources that would enable the disabled family member to remain in their home, navigate the health care system, and/or transition from hospital to home as well as residential settings.

Graduates with the LTCM degree will have the managerial, budgetary and communication skills critical to the health management field. The degree prepares graduates to assist patients and families to connect with community resources, transition from hospital to home, and manage the care of residents in an institutional setting.

Photo detail: seated L to R: Dr. Karan Pittman, Andrew College Academic Dean;  Dr. Linda R. Buchanan, Andrew College President; Dr. Neal Weaver, GSW President; Dr. Suzanne R. Smith, GSW Provost/Vice President for Academic Affairs; standing L to R:  Kathryn Brown, Director of Respiratory Therapy, Assistant Professor of Respiratory Therapy; Amanda Knight, Coordinator of Program Development & Accreditation, Professor of English; Dr. Leisa Easom, GSW Associate Dean of College of Nursing and Health Sciences; Dr. Sandra Daniel, GSW Dean and Professor of College of Nursing and Health Sciences.

About Andrew College

Established in 1854, Andrew College is related to The United Methodist Church and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges. Situated in the rural southwest Georgia community of Cuthbert, Andrew College offers the Associate of Art, Associate of Science, Associate Degree in Nursing, Bachelor of Science and Certificates.

For more information about Andrew College, visit www.andrewcollege.edu.

About Georgia Southwestern State University

Georgia Southwestern State University, located in Americus, Ga., is a public, four-year unit of the University System of Georgia with more than 3,000 students. Georgia Southwestern offers outstanding professional programs of study as well as degrees in the arts, humanities, sciences and graduate programs in business, computer science, education, English, and nursing. Founded in 1906, Georgia Southwestern is recognized as one of the best value colleges in the South.

For more information about Georgia Southwestern State University, visit www.gsw.edu.

Photo by Heather Bradley, permission is granted to print.

Cuthbert, GA (November 3, 2022) – Andrew College Theatre is excited to announce the development of a new work for youth called Trickster Tales. This 40-minute show is appropriate for youth ranging in age from kindergarten through high school seniors but is primarily geared for Grades 2-6. In the performance, seven actors use improvisation, comedy, audience participation, and story theatre to explore the mythical “trickster” characters of the Maori, Native American mythology, West African tales, and Shakespeare.

Public performances will be in the Liddie Murphy Theatre in the Old Main Building at Andrew College on Thursday, November 17, Saturday, November 18, at 7:30 pm,  and Sunday, November 20, at 2:30 pm. Admission is free and open to the public. Professor Deborah Liss-Green plans to pursue grant funding to begin touring Tiger Troupe, with a focus on exploring world literature and bringing theatre to local schools.

A school matinee performance of Trickster Tales is planned for Friday, November 17, tentatively scheduled for 1:00 pm.   Interested schools and home school groups should contact the theatre program to reserve seats. Email: deborahlissgreen@andrewcollege.edu or call (229) 732-5968.

Photos detail: Cast members rehearse a scene from the upcoming production of Trickster Tales at Andrew College.