“The way that those nurses took care of her, the kindness that they showed her—they��treated her like a person—more than a room number or a patient,” recalls Barnes, who was about seven years old at the time. “They really took care of her and us. I just remember sitting in her hospital room and just thinking,��‘I have to do this.’”��

When Barnes started looking into nursing programs, she knew she wanted to study in a place compatible with her Christian faith. Then she discovered ����Vlog��ý. ��

“Honestly,��I was looking for a school that was��theologically on point, and in the south��as well,” Barnes said. “I��really just��wanted that solid Christian worldview going into nursing, and I knew the Anderson could provide that for me.��And they really have.”��

Coming to Anderson would also mean crossing the U.S. for Barnes, who is from Bakersfield, located in California’s Central Valley.��

The thought of coming to South Carolina was filled with unknowns for Barnes and her family, but phone conversations with Robin Roberts, assistant registrar for transfer credit and undergraduate academic advising support, along with��the School of Nursing at ����Vlog��ý were reassuring as she was getting ready to start her freshman year. ��

To be sure, there were a lot of moving parts, not the least of which were the many personal belongings she wouldn’t be able to carry onto a plane to come east. She and her parents kept in touch with Roberts, as well as ����Vlog��ý Director of Postal Operations��Scott Taylor to help sort things out in preparation for coming to AU.��

Taylor��remembers when he first met Barnes and her parents, arriving in a rental car at the campus post office’s loading dock. ��

Taylor greeted Barnes, saying, “You’re my favorite freshman.” ��

Quizzically, she asked “Why is that?” ��

In a humorous tone, Taylor responded, “Because you’re the first one to pick up all your packages.” ��

Not long into the first semester, Barnes emailed Taylor asking if he had a position for her at the post office. Taylor responded that he did. Looking back, he feels Barnes has been a good hire, and nearly four years later continues to cheerfully pass on care packages and other items from home to students, among her other postal duties.��

“What’s��so neat about her is just her heart—number one, because of her love for Jesus, which makes her have��a good work��ethic, just the way she treats people,” Taylor said. “She��deals with my cash��drawer… and I don’t have to worry��if��she’s making change or whatever she’s doing. She’s pleasant to the students and faculty and staff,��and,��just the way she treats people, just how friendly and outgoing her personality is.”��

About Taylor, Barnes said, “He’s so kind and so supportive.��I’ll��be working and��say to him, ‘I��have��a test coming up. He’ll��tell me,��‘School is more important than your job.’ It’s great to have people who are understanding that are around you, who’ll go the extra mile.”��

Barnes also feels that Roberts went that extra mile to help her settle in, even measuring a dorm room for her. ��

Four years later, as Barnes prepares to graduate this December, she can’t imagine ever going anyplace else. She’s made a lot of great memories at Anderson. She loves to do photography of all kinds, but especially loves portrait photography. No doubt she��will return home with thousands of photos to remember her Anderson friends by.��

“I love hanging out with the people.��Sometimes��my friends and��I��will��have movie nights, and that’s��something super sweet and just simple,” she said, adding that Roberts gave her a place to stay for a night or more after Hurricane Helene and also a recent ice storm. ��

And she can’t say enough about her professors.��

“Every single professor that��I’ve��had has been so��incredibly supportive, which I think differs from other nursing programs… Our professors are more like,��‘yeah,��it’s��gonna��be hard, but��we’ve��all been��there��and we want you��to succeed,’��so they give us all the tools to succeed,” Barnes said. “They genuinely care about each and every student.��It’s��not like��they’re��just��teaching a class.��They’re teaching students that they care about��providing real life situations and��real information that we can use.”��

Barnes appreciates real-world hospital nursing experiences in partnership with AnMed and Prisma. She has worked at clinicals for Hope Missions, helping homeless individuals with simple things like foot care, helping them seek medical attention if needed and being a listening ear. She also was impacted by a service learning project hosted by Family Promise of Anderson—a homeless simulation, where she literally spent the night outdoors in a makeshift cardboard shelter, sacrificing personal comforts to get a feel for the everyday realities of people living on the streets. A fun experience for Barnes has been working with the Rainbow Gang in their day program, doing life with those who have various disabilities.��

Her career plans after graduation are to return home to California to pursue a nursing career there.��

“I’m��currently applying for nurse��residencies back at home,” Barnes said, wanting to be close to her family.��“Hopefully��I’ll��be working somewhere in��pediatrics, if��I’m��not,��that’s totally okay. I love anything and everything nursing, I just would like adore a pediatrics job.��We’ll see what happens. I’m still, still working on it, praying about it.”��

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Forbes also met with AU students while speaking in the theater of the G. Ross Anderson Jr. Student Center, thanks to sponsorship from the Young Americas Foundation. Students had the opportunity to ask Forbes questions and hear his thoughts on topics that matter to the next generation of business leaders. Forbes also spoke at a luncheon for invited guests that followed in the banquet hall of the student center. The prior evening, Forbes spoke at the Poinsett Club in Greenville.��

Forbes was hosted by the Center for Finance and Economics at ����Vlog��ý as part of their annual speaker series.��

Forbes is greeted by ����Vlog��ý President Evans P. Whitaker at a luncheon Friday.

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Graduate students Kayla Thomas and Delaney Alyse-Souza received AAPA Student Delegate Scholarships, supporting their attendance and providing the opportunity to present research projects developed during the didactic portion of ����Vlog��ý’s Pathologists’ Assistant program. The pair also became the first ����Vlog��ý students to attend the conference as AAPA student delegates.��

For Thomas, the opportunity provided a national platform to explore a rapidly developing area of pathology: artificial intelligence. Her project, “Artificial Intelligence Integration into the Pathologists’ Assistant Workflow,” examined the ability of general-purpose artificial intelligence programs, including ChatGPT and Gemini, to generate grossing templates based on College of American Pathologists protocols.��

Building on that research, Thomas developed PathAssistAI, an AI-based educational tool designed to generate more standardized grossing templates, cassette summaries and inking protocols while providing feedback that could help PA students practice specimen dictation.��

Her research also revealed important limitations of current AI tools.��

“One thing I didn’t fully appreciate at the beginning was how inconsistent general-purpose AI could be,” Thomas said. “That really showed me that general AI isn’t enough, especially in a field like pathology where consistency and accuracy are extremely important.”

Presenting the project allowed her to discuss both the possibilities and limitations of AI with practicing Pathologists’ Assistants, including professionals who were skeptical of its use.��

“I really enjoyed discussing whether AI could realistically be incorporated into the grossing workflow and what safeguards would need to be in place for it to be used responsibly,” she said.��

Alyse-Souza’s project drew from her professional experience before entering Anderson’s program. Prior to graduate school, she worked as a tissue recovery technician with Mid-America Transplant in St. Louis, Missouri. Her research proposed expanding the role of Pathologists’ Assistants into tissue and organ donation, where their knowledge of anatomy and pathology could potentially contribute to donor evaluation, protocols and efforts to reduce preventable tissue and organ discard.��

“Before attending AU’s program, my career as a tissue recovery technician with Mid-America Transplant profoundly affected my life,”��Alyse-Souza��said. “I noticed while working that having a pathology professional involved could help lower the discard rate of organs and tissues due to anatomical or pathological reasons.”��

During her research, Delaney also identified limitations in the availability and timeliness of national discard data, leading her to consider another potential role for Pathologists’ Assistants: helping develop standardized protocols and procedures that could strengthen data collection and reporting.��

For Alyse-Souza, one of the most meaningful responses came from conference attendees who told her they had not realized the problem existed.��

“Tissue and organ donation is something that many don’t think about until a loved one passes away,” she said. “Advocating for this area and spreading the word was important to me, and I think I accomplished that.”��

Beyond their individual presentations, both students described the conference as an opportunity to learn from practicing professionals, connect with other PA students and become more engaged with the profession they will soon enter.��

For Thomas, presenting also provided an opportunity to represent the program that prepared her for the experience.��

“The professors of the PA program at ����Vlog��ý care so much about mine and other students’ education and success, so being able to represent the program at the AAPA conference was something I took a lot of pride in,” she said.��

Alyse-Souza��shared that sense of pride in representing Anderson on a national stage.��

“Kayla and I were the first-ever student delegates from AU, and it was incredible to have that honor,” she said. “I believe we proved that the AU Pathologists’ Assistant program is producing top-quality graduates that will enter the workforce with passion and dedication.”

Both students returned from Phoenix with an expanded professional network and renewed enthusiasm for their clinical training and future careers.��

“The conference made me even more excited for what the rest of my clinical year will bring,”��Thomas��said. “I hope to become a PA who is always willing to learn, ask questions, and look for ways to improve the field, while always keeping patient care at the center of what I do.”��

For Alyse-Souza, the experience reinforced that she had found both the right career and a profession in which she hopes to remain actively involved.��

“I left the conference feeling absolutely invigorated to have found this profession and eager to get start,” she said. “I can’t wait to get involved after graduation and bring more attention to how life-saving pathology is.”��

Thomas and Alyse-Souza’s selection as AAPA Student Delegates also reflects the growing national presence of ����Vlog��ý’s Pathologists’ Assistant program. Their ability to develop meaningful research, communicate their work to practicing professionals and represent AU on a national stage demonstrates the program’s commitment to preparing students not only for clinical practice, but also for scholarship, professional engagement and leadership within the profession. As the program continues to grow, opportunities like this highlight the caliber of its students and the strong foundation they are building at ����Vlog��ý.��

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As he went to law school and beyond, he never forgot what he saw growing up, which has led to a calling on his life to champion universal human rights. He has done so on an international scale through his academic programs, including Good of All, which he created on the foundation of promoting Dr. King’s principles respecting human dignity and universal rights.��

Dr. Daniels,��Distinguished University Professor of Law, Political Science & Human Rights��at ����Vlog��ý, has developed a new curriculum that celebrates the God-given fundamental right of human dignity and is endorsed by Ambassador and civil rights leader Andrew Young.����

Titled Civil Rights: A Global Perspective, this curriculum is being offered under the umbrella of Share the Dream South Carolina, an initiative whose central idea is to celebrate the value of human dignity regardless of race, religion or political ideology, and aims to inspire students through Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s enduring message of hope, non-violence and unity.����

With the support of education leaders in South Carolina, including South Carolina Education Superintendent Dr. Ellen Weaver, the curriculum is gaining momentum.��

During his years of studying counterterrorism in Washington, D.C., Dr. Daniels intensively researched the logic behind evil and concluded that terrorist acts follow a script he calls “the three D’s—demonize, dehumanize and destroy.” This, he contends, has been practiced by Marxists and fascists as well as other radicalized individuals and groups who exploit differences of race, social class, and tribal differences to advance their dark cause.��

“A year before the pandemic, I got an unmistakable call from the Lord. It became very clear to me that if our nation were to collapse in my lifetime or the lifetime of my children, it probably would not be because of the forces that we were seeking to disrupt overseas, it would be because we would collapse from within,” said Dr. Daniels, who realized “the three Ds” were coming to the home front.��

Dr. Daniels believes that promoting human dignity, as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. sought to do, has the power to shape hearts and minds early in life, serving as sort of a preventative vaccine, in contrast to constantly escalating spending on anti-terrorism efforts, which he says focuses on the symptoms alone.��

“It’s counterintuitive, but it works, because it has the unique power to break the cycle of darkness,” said Dr. Daniels, citing the nearly bloodless overthrow of the Soviet Union in recent history. “That’s why I have hope for South Carolina and the country. And I’m excited and encouraged.”��

Ambassador Young, who worked alongside Dr. King in the midst of the Civil Rights movement, praised Dr. Daniels for developing what he calls an innovative curriculum investing in future leaders, who, like Dr. King himself, “embody the unifying ideals of justice and compassion that were the driving engine of the Civil Rights movement in America.”��

The curriculum, now available free of charge to South Carolina K-12 educators teaching U.S. History, was created in partnership with educational leaders across South Carolina and McGraw-Hill.����

“We’re seeing a remarkable embrace and endorsement of our educational vision by South Carolina K12 leaders in both public and private sectors,” Dr. Daniels commented.��

Dr. Oran Smith, senior fellow of Palmetto Promise and a vice chair on the board of trustees at Coastal Carolina University, praises Dr. Daniels for being able to transform complex ideas into impactful educational resources that reach learners across diverse contexts and age groups.����

“Dr. Daniels is a rare world-class scholar and an accomplished practitioner of what he teaches,” said former South Carolina Governor and executive director of the United Nations World Food Programme David Beasley. “In South Carolina, I’ve watched his work unite leaders from across every sector—earning the support of Superintendent Ellen Weaver, the Catholic Diocese of Charleston, and the South Carolina Independent School Association. His Ambassador Young Fellowship has brought together every HBCU in our state with multiple predominantly white Christian colleges—a rare and powerful model of reconciliation.”��

“At a moment when our national discourse is too often marked by division and even violence, Dr. Daniels has devoted himself to teaching young people how to disagree without contempt and to pursue reconciliation without surrendering conviction,” said Robert T Braciszewski, executive director of the South Carolina Independent School Association (SCISA). “He has had both the courage and the wisdom to present our state’s complicated history fully, holding together its hardest truths and its greatest acts of forgiveness. That is rare and consequential work, and he carries it out with humility and integrity.”��

Dr. Daniels added that the K12 curriculum is but one leg in a four-legged stool. The first leg is K12, followed by higher education, churches, and a corporate curriculum is currently under development.��

Work is currently underway to someday provide opportunities for high school students taking courses in the curriculum to earn college-level credit at ����Vlog��ý.��

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The University also held its position at #31 overall among all regional universities in the South, a standing made more significant by the addition of nearly 40 colleges and universities newly reclassified into the Best Regional Universities–South category. U.S. News also named AU among the South’s “Best Value” schools.

The rankings reflect two decades of deliberate growth that has drawn more qualified students, more rigorous academic programs and more accomplished faculty to Anderson’s campus while elevating the University’s national profile among the country’s leading comprehensive Christian institutions.

����Vlog��ý President Evans P. Whitaker says that growth has always served a larger purpose.

“We believe education is ultimately about more than preparing students for a career. It is about preparing them for human flourishing: the capacity to live meaningful, purposeful and fulfilling lives while contributing to the flourishing of their families, professions, communities and society,” President Whitaker said. “Our Christian foundation informs our understanding of human dignity, vocation, community and the responsibilities that accompany knowledge and influence. Faith does not narrow our intellectual ambitions. It gives them depth and purpose.”

����Vlog��ý’s 2026-2027 U.S. News & World Report Rankings:

• #1 in South Carolina — Top Private Colleges, Regional Universities (South)
• #16 — Top Private Colleges, Regional Universities (South)
• #15 — Best Colleges for Veterans, Regional Universities (South)
• #31 — Overall Rank, Regional Universities (South)
• #32 — Best Value Schools, Regional Universities (South)
• #1 (tied) among Private Institutions in South Carolina: College Grads Earning More Than a High School Grad, among Regional Universities (South)
• #2 Highest (tied) in South Carolina: College Grads Earning More Than a High School Grad, among Regional Universities (South)
• #2 Highest First-Year Retention Rate in South Carolina, among Regional Universities (South)
• #1 Highest First-Year Retention Rate in South Carolina among Private Institutions, among Regional Universities (South)
• #2 Highest (tied) Six-Year Graduation Rate in South Carolina, among Regional Universities (South)
• #1 Six-Year Graduation Rate in South Carolina among Private Institutions, among Regional Universities (South)

The rankings arrive as AU continues building a national reputation that matches its regional standing. Whitaker sees the recognition as a marker of progress and a call to reach further.

“Continuing our growth as a top-tier comprehensive university means attracting students and faculty who are exceptional,” President Whitaker said. “It means earning the respect of our academic peers and sending graduates into careers and lives that matter while showing up for the communities around us. And it means building a national presence that keeps growing. Growth got us here. Now we’re after something more.”

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For this kind of dedication, Taylor was named Anderson District Five Teacher of the Year. ����

Taylor began his career at T.L. Hanna High School during one of the most challenging periods in modern education. In his first year, he earned the distinction of District Rookie Teacher of the Year. Six years later, his colleagues at T.L. Hanna named him Teacher of the Year. He then went on to be named Anderson District Five Teacher of the Year.��

“It’s been a blessing,” Taylor said of representing both the district and his alma mater, ����Vlog��ý. Taylor’s honor came with an unexpected perk: the use of a new Toyota 4Runner for a year. While friends and colleagues were impressed by the vehicle, Taylor feels that his real reward is knowing that fellow educators believed in the work he has done for students.��

Long before the awards, Taylor knew he wanted to become a teacher because of the influence educators had on his own life. Growing up in Greer, he was inspired by teachers who invested in him and by a football coach who became a mentor during pivotal moments of his youth. Their example showed him the profound impact educators can have far beyond academics.��

When Taylor visited ����Vlog��ý in 2015, he immediately felt at home. He loved the campus, the atmosphere and the close-knit culture of the university. He applied, was accepted, and never looked back. ��

Some of his favorite college memories revolve around friendships that remain strong today. He spent all four years on the ����Vlog��ý campus living with his cousin, Josh Leisten, and later shared an apartment with TJ Galloway, now a special education teacher and football coach. Taylor also worked in student activities, where his supervisor, Brenna Morris, taught him lessons in professionalism, leadership and respect that continue to shape the way he interacts with students and colleagues.��

At ����Vlog��ý, Taylor also discovered his passion for coaching. He began coaching football while still a student, working at middle and high schools while juggling coursework and student teaching responsibilities. The long drives between Anderson and Greer during football season were demanding, but they confirmed that education and athletics were the perfect combination for his talents and interests. Perhaps most importantly, ����Vlog��ý is also where he met his future wife, making the school an even more meaningful part of his story.��

For most of his career at T.L. Hanna, Taylor taught mathematics, helping students navigate the challenges of Algebra I.����

“There’s not a better feeling,” he explains, “than seeing a student struggle with a concept and then suddenly have it click.” For Taylor, success has never been measured solely by test scores. Sometimes the victory is helping a student gain enough confidence to ask questions, persevere through challenges and achieve a goal that once seemed out of reach.��

After six years teaching math, Taylor transitioned into physical education and now serves as an assistant strength coach while leading T.L. Hanna’s adaptive physical education program. While this may not be a commonly chosen pathway, Taylor sees it as a rewarding teaching opportunity.����

His adaptive PE students include young people with physical, intellectual and developmental disabilities. Through creative programming and after-school championship events, Taylor has helped create experiences many students never would have otherwise.��

During the school’s Kickball Championship, the softball field comes alive with lights, music, a scoreboard and an announcer. Students wear jerseys, hear their names called over the loudspeaker and compete before family, friends and classmates.����

For many participants, it is their first opportunity to experience the excitement and recognition often associated with school athletics. Events include cornhole, bowling and T-ball championships, all designed to foster inclusion and celebrate student achievement. General education students serve as mentors, creating friendships and experiences that extend beyond the classroom. One recent kickball championship attracted 123 spectators.��

Those moments rank among the most rewarding of Taylor’s career. He strongly believes that every student deserves to feel seen, valued and connected to the larger school community. When adaptive PE students compete alongside their peers and hear cheers from the crowd, Taylor sees barriers disappear and confidence grow.��

The same philosophy guides his work on the football field.����

While wins and championships are exciting, Taylor says the greater reward is watching young men develop into dependable, respectful and selfless leaders. The lessons learned through athletics, he believes, can shape a student’s character long after the final whistle blows.����

Taylor is quick to credit mentors, veteran teachers and colleagues who have invested in him along the way. His advice to future educators is simple: stay humble, surround yourself with experienced people and always keep students at the center of your work.��

That mindset may explain why Taylor’s career has been marked by such rapid success. Yet awards alone do not tell the story.����

The real measure of his impact can be found in the algebra student who finally believes they can succeed, the football player learning what it means to put others first, or the adaptive PE participant hearing their name announced beneath stadium lights.����

For Dylan Taylor, Teacher of the Year is simply another opportunity to do what inspired him all those years ago: show up for students, believe in them and make sure every one of them knows they belong.��

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The answers to those questions don’t come easy, but Dr. Luke Stamps, a professor in the ����Vlog��ý College of Christian Studies, recently published a book that offers a thoughtful look at the subject through a biblical lens.��

Dr. Stamps’ book, titled The Ultimate Guide to Angels and Demons, was published earlier this year through B&H Publishers and is part of a series of reference works. Dr. Stamps joins a group of��Christian writers who have authored Ultimate Guide books that have included The Ultimate Guide to Jesus, The Ultimate Guide to the Bible, and The Ultimate Guide to Apologetics.��

“I think we need to have a supernatural worldview and be open to what’s going on in the spiritual realm,” he said, “and to think about it carefully, though biblically, in line with the Christian tradition.”��

In his Topics in Theology and History Class, offered every spring at ����Vlog��ý, Dr. Stamps teaches a section on angels and demons—something he introduced to his class��in 2020. ��

“It was an area of Christian theology that I had not explored adequately and I thought it would be of interest to the students,” he said. “There’s been a lot of reflection on this aspect of Christian belief through the centuries and I think it sometimes has a muted place in a lot of our theologies.”��

The book, according to Dr. Stamps, presents a survey of the doctrine of angels and demons and is written for a lay audience, but it could also be of interest to pastors and students wanting to learn more about the topic. There are also chapters dealing with how Christians think about angels and demons and how they are portrayed in art and popular culture—complete with illustrations.��

“The book has a lot of art in it… illustrated color images��of angels, the Annunciation, the Cherubim and the Seraphim—lots of��beautiful artwork,” he said.��

This past December, Dr. Stamps published Repeat the Sounding Joy: A Christmastide Devotional, with devotions for the days after Christmas. ��

The Ultimate Guide to Angels and Demons is available in hardback and as an eBook through Amazon and other major online booksellers and can also be found at Books-A-Million and other major book retailers.��

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His graduation from Anderson, however, was only the beginning of the story. ��

Following his undergraduate studies, Jones continued his education at another university, where he earned a master of science in accountancy. Jones subsequently completed the CPA examination process and today he’s putting his ����Vlog��ý education into practice professionally as an audit senior with Elliott Davis, a leading accounting firm in the Southeastern United States.  ��

In 2025 a couple of ����Vlog��ý professors reached out to Jones about teaching an Introduction to Financial Accounting Course. In the fall of that year, Jones returned to ����Vlog��ý as a part-time adjunct faculty member in the College of Business and Economics, teaching accounting to an evening class of AU students.��

“It felt very full circle to return to Anderson to teach the exact same course that I took as a freshman,” said Jones, pointing out that this was the class that influenced him to pursue an accounting career.����

Just a few years after sitting in Anderson accounting classrooms himself, Jones found himself standing in front of a classroom of students.����

“At work I’ve always enjoyed helping interns and first year associates, and have identified training and development as something that is life giving to me, and something that God has gifted me with,” he said. “It brings me a lot of joy.”��

On his first day of class, Jones didn’t quite know what to expect.��

“Within the first few minutes, it all felt very natural,” he said. “I know the material like the back of my hand, and so it was really life-giving to teach it, knowing that this class was something that changed the trajectory of my career and my major at Anderson.”��

Helping students who are struggling in the course and seeing them grasp accounting concepts and pass the class gives Jones a feeling of accomplishment. Jones understands that accounting is a required course for business majors, whether they are studying accounting, finance, human resources, marketing or something else. He felt especially gratified when some students chose to major in accounting as a result of the class—just as he did a few years before.��

Jones’ story provides an opportunity to celebrate the ����Vlog��ý pillars of Great Academics and Great Purpose. It demonstrates the professional success of an Anderson graduate, the strength of the University’s Accounting and Finance programs, the connection between undergraduate education and professional qualification, and the lasting relationship that can develop between students and the University. ��

Most importantly, it is a story of an alumnus returning to invest in the community that helped prepare him for his own career.��

Jones feels his education at Anderson not only prepared him to be an accountant, but gave him a comprehensive education.����

“The accounting classes are integral to my job,” he said, “but there are also classes that made me a more well-rounded student. I took finance classes that helped me understand investing in the market. I took political science classes that helped me understand policy making—what’s going on at the government level. I took music classes and English classes that have helped me become a well-rounded person. It’s difficult to think of a class of Anderson where there isn’t some sort of takeaway that has helped me in my professional and personal life.”��

Jones wants to be there for his students in the same way his professors were there for him at Anderson. ��

“There were times, because of the pandemic hitting in the middle of my college years, or if I was going through a difficult time personally while I was in college, I had professors who would check in on me or were willing to sit with me one-on-one and talk through a test that was coming up or an assignment or just career aspirations, because even upon graduating, I wasn’t fully sure what I wanted to do career-wise,” he said. “I try to do that in my own class. I try to not just teach theory. I try to show how what I’m�� teaching is applicable and compare it to real life situations and real life companies, bringing in news articles or talk through how current events are affecting the world of business.”��

Jones noted that a few ����Vlog��ý students completed internships at Elliott Davis, and a few graduates have gone to work for the firm fulltime.��

“I’ve been able to get more involved in training and development at work with associates and interns, and so that’s tied in really well with teaching at Anderson, using the same part of my brain. It’s been really life-giving,” he said.����

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ABET accreditation assures that programs meet standards to produce graduates ready to enter critical technical fields that are leading the way in innovationand emerging technologies and anticipating the welfare and safety needs of the public.��

����Vlog��ý College of Engineering Dean Dr. Lisa Zidek said, “As an engineer, I tend to focus on processes, standards, and outcomes, which is why this ABET accreditation is so meaningful. It serves as a significant external validation of the quality and rigor of our Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering programs, reflecting years of intentional curriculum development and the hard work of our faculty, students, alumni, and industry partners. We are grateful for this recognition, as it affirms that ����Vlog��ý is preparing engineers who are not only professionally competent and meet nationally recognized standards, but are also grounded in purpose, integrity, and service.”��

Sought worldwide, ABET’s voluntary peer-review process is highly respected because it adds critical value to academic programs in the technical disciplines, where quality, precision and safety are of the utmost importance.��

Developed by technical professionals from ABET’s member societies, ABET criteria focus on what students experience and learn. ABET accreditation reviews look at program curricula, faculty, facilities and institutional support and are conducted by teams of highly skilled professionals from industry, academia and government, with expertise in the ABET disciplines.��

ABET currently accredits 4,773 programs at 930 colleges and universities in 41 countries and areas as of Oct. 1, 2024.��

More information about ABET, its member societies and the accreditation criteria used to evaluate programs can be found at www.abet.org.������

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