U.S. Army Veteran Nearing Degree through AGS

Lee Speights is an accomplished author, business owner, certified personal trainer, and U.S. Army veteran, and thanks to the School of Adult and Graduate Studies (AGS) at Montreat College, he can soon add college graduate to his already impressive resume. “I have one...

Students Explore Career Opportunities in Science

The biology and health science departments at Montreat College have teamed up to create a series of field trips to experience science in action in a variety of careers. “These trips are brand new this year,” said Dr. Maddison Melchionna, Assistant Professor of Natural...

Senior Students Survey Lake Susan

Four senior students in Dr. Maddison Melchionna’s microbial genetics lab have dived into a project to study what might be hiding in the clear waters of iconic Lake Susan in Montreat. Hannah Jarboe (Mechanicsville, MD), Tamiya Bruce (Charleston, SC), Jaycee Beckham...

Grayson Roper (’22) Takes a Bite Out of Cybersecurity Crime

As a high school senior, Grayson Roper envisioned his future as a dentist, but after touring Montreat College on a whim, he suddenly found himself chewing on a new career idea in cybersecurity. Roper grew up “just down the mountain from Montreat” in Morganton, North...

Montreat College Signs Transfer Agreements with Gaston College

Montreat College has signed two articulation agreements with Gaston College, charting a seamless route for transfer students to earn a bachelor’s degree from Montreat College’s School of Adult and Graduate Studies (AGS). In addition, a separate agreement allows Gaston...

Payton Landy: Excellence in Defense

As a soccer goalie in college and today as manager of a cyber threat detection and response team, Payton Landy is no stranger to excellence in defense. “I feel like as a goalkeeper, my job was, in a sense, to manage the team in our defensive positioning,” said Landy,...

Daulton Beard Reflects on His Calling, Path, and Achievements

In eighth grade, Daulton Beard, a Florida native, went on a mission trip to Asheville and immediately fell in love with the mountains. “I remember going home from that trip and telling my parents, ‘Hey, I’m going to find a college in the mountains,’” Beard recalled....

From Ukraine to Montreat: Andrii Dmytrenko’s Incredible Journey

When Russia invaded Ukraine on Thursday, February 24, 2022, Andrii Dmytrenko had planned to go to school, but at 5 a.m., his mother woke him up and within two hours they were in the car leaving his hometown of Kyiv and nearly everything he knew and valued. Little did...