Newman University names Brett Andrews dean of new business school

Brett K. Andrews, MBA, Ph.D., has been named dean of the new School of Business, effective May 1, 2016.

Andrews will lead the new School of Business announced by Newman University officials in August 2015, which will focus on ethics, entrepreneurship and socially conscious practices as well as traditional business knowledge. The school will launch in the fall 2016 semester.

“We are pleased to welcome Brett to Newman,” said Newman President Noreen M. Carrocci, Ph.D. “His background as a business dean, experience in various leadership roles at private faith-based institutions, and proven track record of building programs and developing partnerships make him the perfect fit to successfully lead our business school into the future.”

Andrews will come to Newman after serving since 2013 as executive vice president of Tabor College Wichita and dean of the School of Adult and Graduate Studies, where he helped develop many academic programs in business and forge community partnerships. He is
also a professor of management at Tabor. Andrews previously spent 10 years at Oklahoma Wesleyan University where he was vice president of Academic Program Development and dean of the Chesapeake School of Business. Over the past dozen years, Andrews has developed more than 15 new academic programs for graduate, undergraduate and associate levels, which include online programming.

“I’m very excited about joining the faculty and staff at Newman and being a part of the school’s mission to empower graduates,” Andrews said. “The university already has strong undergraduate and graduate business programs and I’m looking forward to help lead the launch of its School of Business.”

Andrews earned his Ph.D. in management from Walden University, his MBA from Oral Roberts University and his marketing undergraduate degree from Northeastern State University. He is currently finishing a post- graduate certificate in corporate finance from Harvard University.