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- All Roads Lead to Rome
- Japanese Program Newsletter - Vol. 9, 2021
- From Whee to Wi
- Denise Morgan named Goodnight Distinguished Professor of Early Literacy
- NSF grant totaling more than $1.4 million helps jumpstart WCU Smoky Mountain Noyce Scholars Program
- Project Discovery celebrates, reflects on 40th anniversary
- Psychology professor lauded for teaching excellence
- Retired Jackson County educator endows scholarship for WCU math education students
- Student receives WRESA Dogwood Trust grant
- The Catamount School plans to relocate to Reid
- Call Me MiSTER program graduates its first cohort
- WCU honors four prominent alumni at Homecoming 2024
- Study: AI Helps Students with Test Prep, Interview Practice
- Changing Landscape of College Athletics from Labor Market Perspective
- Study Examines Diversity of Workplace Spirituality
- Customer sensory experiences, behaviors at cartoon-themed restaurants
- Federal Agricultural Mediation Programs Should Be Continued, Expanded
- WCU free enterprise center has new director, new focus on undergraduate research
- Marketing professor鈥檚 research indicates iconic brands may want to avoid extensive social media
- From 鈥楴ight Court鈥� to internal auditor: The impact of extraneous factors on perception of competency
- Research Examines Social Media Impact on Hospitality Industry
- New Handbook Aims to Improve Project Performance
- The Intersection of Knowledge Management and Managing Projects
- Recent Book Shines Light on International Arbitration Issue
- New study examines role of personality dimensions in project improvement teams
- Researchers at WCU, CCU investigate pitfalls of alternative financing methods in the Carolinas
- Researcher studying relationship between PTSD, organizational support systems, job performance
- New study on 鈥�4% rule鈥� suggests different approaches to retirement strategies
- Sport Organizations Frequently Strike Out When Marketing to Families
- Launch of Student Financial Wellness Program
- Study of Female Management Consultants
- Abigail Gulley | Day in the Life
- Academic Success Program students visit Argentina with support from Fund for WCU
- Master's Degree in Biology Cultivates a Career
- Additional donations boost estate gift, enable patron to see impact on parks, rec students
- African American Society reunion features Greek anniversaries, return of gospel choir
- Aliya Bailey named director of development for WCU College of Health, Human Sciences
- Not Just Brick and Mortar
- Pride of the Mountain Marching Band Snare Drum Player Inspires the Next Generation
- Annie Vasquez: The Value of People
- Annual Planting Day event recognizes philanthropic impact of WCU giving societies
- Antonia Kincaid - Finding Inspiration
- The Black Fantastic - Armani Blair
- Science + Art = Winemaking
- The Black Fantastic - Asha Sr., Charlotte
- Asheville banking executive devotes gifts of time, talent, treasure to WCU
- Bank Shot
- The Black Fantastic - BaShaun Smith
- The Black Fantastic - Benny Smith
- The Black Fantastic - Brandi Hinant-Crawford
- Brinson Honors College launches new initiative through 1889 Impact Grant
- Bryant Kinney leaves leadership post confident in WCU鈥檚 strength to lead region
- Campus priorities identified for inaugural 鈥極ne Day For Western鈥�
- CAPS finds way to 鈥榤eet students鈥� with award-winning videos
- Campus Fixture Carol Burton Creates Scholarship to Aid International Graduate Students
- The Black Fantastic - Carol Burton
- Catamount community gives back during annual service weekend
- Catamount crew crisscrosses Ireland for WCU travel series maiden voyage
- Catamount Philanthropy Council provides student face for donors, alumni
- Look Good, Feel Good
- Engineer Your Future
- MFA program checked all the boxes for WCU alum: culture, mountains and academic rigor
- Manifest Your Own Masterpiece
- Chancellor Kelli Brown 4-peats on Business NC Power List
- Chancellor Brown鈥檚 late mother honored with namesake scholarship
- Discover Your Own Breakthrough
- The Black Fantastic - C.J. Mitchell
- Always Business Ready
- CoB alumna uses business and sport management skills in job with Milwaukee Brewers聽
- Cody Dalton | Pride of the Mountains
- Coffee and Culture
- College of Business alumnus who appeared on 鈥楽hark Tank鈥� shares secrets of success
- College of Engineering and Technology hosts German exchange student for research collaboration
- College of Engineering and Technology to offer new concentrations this fall
- The Comeback Cats
- Conway Scholars meet benefactor, hear from NCDHHS secretary, receive nursing pins
- Catamount Resiliency: Be the Helper
- Catamount Resiliency: Buddying UP
- Catamount Resiliency: Campus Response
- Catamount Resiliency: Students and Professors Answer the Call
- Catamount Resiliency: WCU Mother-Daughter Duo Lend a Hand
- Organizing a Future
- A Decade in Review
- 2023 Graduates | Day in the Life
- Colleen Heuser | A Day In the Life
- Hayley Sexton | A Day in the Life
- Kara Jean Spindle | A Day in the Life
- Nicole Kanupp | Day in the Life
- Semaija Johnson | Day in the Life
- Vitoria Domingues | A Day in the Life
- Donors provide emergency support to WCU students, faculty, staff affected by Helene
- Due for an Upgrade
- Ed Broadwell receives doctorate of humane letters
- WCU art student leaves mark in his 鈥渄ream鈥� country
- Engineering Treats
- Engineering WNC
- English professor picked for NC Literary Hall of Fame
- Envisioning Championships
- Essential WCU
- Ex-football player makes $150K gift to WCU athletics facilities after tour reveals few upgrades in 40 years
- Faculty members on campaign steering committee encourage colleague involvement
- Family establishes memorial scholarship fund to assist nontraditional art students at WCU
- 鈥楩ill the Western Sky鈥� contributions continue Brown family legacy of support for WCU
- Fill The Western Sky
- Former Catamount kicker splits the uprights with $100k in support for fundraising effort
- Former WCU tennis player serves up $1 million fundraising campaign gift
- Fund for WCU supports cultural, educational programming to improve student retention
- Funds launched by alumnus support preprofessional health majors, marching band students
- Game Changers
- Games On
- Gardner-Webb鈥檚 Wesley Cogdill appointed director of Catamount Club
- Gift from alumnus establishes new scholarship fund to support WCU social work students
- $2.1 million gift provides scholarships for all WCU nursing students
- Gifts in honor of retired physical therapy professor support WCU program, students
- Gifts of $100,000 from communication alumnus create 2 annual scholarship funds
- Native Plants Symbolize New Giving Societies
- Global Black Studies program shines
- Explore Further. Achieve Goals
- Gratitude for education, experiences at WCU inspire decades of support for Catamount athletics
- Exploration Leads to Career Connections
- Honoring Our Promise
- Highlands Biological Station receives $150,000 gift to continue renovation of historic building
- Pride of the Mountains to Ireland
- Pride of the Mountains to Ireland: Day 4
- The Black Fantastic - Jack Eaddy
- The Black Fantastic - Jane Adams-Dunford
- The Black Fantastic - Jeff Hughes
- Kathleen de la Torre named WCU鈥檚 assistant vice chancellor for development
- Legacy Pinning ceremony honors family connections to WCU
- Lifelong love of libraries leads to couple鈥檚 philanthropic support of Hunter Library
- Live Western
- Live Western
- Macon County couple endows fund to diversify WCU Fine Art Museum collections
- Made in NC: WCU and Jackson County share deep connection
- Making Music Accessible
- Live Western
- The Black Fantastic - Munene Mwaniki
- The Black Fantastic - Myron Jackson
- NC construction management organization provides scholarship funding
- NC Innovation
- Nearly 1,150 donors make gifts to WCU on 鈥極ne Day for Western鈥�
- New Beginnings
- New Faces
- New scholarship for criminal justice students honors memory of alumnus, police officer
- New Thompson Scholar program supports study-abroad for WCU Honors College students
- No Bones 甜瓜视频app It
- Notes from Chancellor Brown
- Notes from Chancellor Brown
- The Black Fantastic - Patrice Brown
- POTM to Pixar
- Roots Of Rhythm
- Retired engineer who got his start at WCU creates new scholarship fund
- Retired Jackson County educator endows scholarship for WCU math education students
- Ronnie Carr
- School of Nursing receives $2.1 million boost to launch Conway Scholars initiative
- Senior Toast celebrates student philanthropy, ongoing engagement with WCU
- The Black Fantastic - Shamella Cromartie
- Students, faculty expand literacy improvement efforts in Ecuador with support from Fund for WCU
- The Fund for WCU supports 鈥榃hee Belong鈥� gatherings for distance ed students
- Voice of the Cats
- Third annual 鈥極ne Day for Western鈥� set for March 26
- Top Cats
- Vecinos clinic receives tech upgrade through donations to Fund for WCU
- WCU launches Veterans and Military Alumni Society
- Graciella | A Day in the Life
- The Black Fantastic - Vonterius Woolbright
- Walk the Talk
- WCU alumni don鈥檛 wait until 60s to make planned gifts to help future students
- WCU alumni help recruit future students through new Cat Eyes Club
- WCU alumnus, 鈥楽hark Tank鈥� star Garrett Ozar to speak at Global Entrepreneurship Week
- WCU announces historic $100 million goal for 鈥楩ill the Western Sky鈥� fundraising campaign
- WCU chancellor, 鈥榝irst dude鈥� back the 鈥楩ill the Western Sky鈥� campaign with a $4 million estate gift
- WCU donors shatter fundraising record with more than $35.8 million in FY24
- WCU faculty, staff giving campaign nets nearly 40 new donors
- WCU honors four prominent alumni at Homecoming 2024
- WCU students plan and build outdoor steps for HOMEBASE
- WCU鈥檚 7th scholarship funded by Whitehead family pays tribute to Honors College founding dean
- Wike Scholarship to aid WCU football players, golfers seeking careers in education
- The Black Fantastic - William Moultrie
- Women鈥檚 basketball program alumnae reunion supported by Fund for WCU, 1889 Impact Grants
- 2018: A Year in Review
- Yosemite
- Zoe | A Day in the Life
- Missing All Things WCU? Download These Zoom Backgrounds!
- Elvis Perez Galarza
- Ariel Col贸n-Rodr铆guez
- Julie Miller Denesha joins WCU Advancement to support College of Engineering, Technology
- Justin Pace to lead WCU School of Accounting, Finance, Info Systems, Business LawPage Title
- WCU alumnus Julian Manrique shines as law school grad, attorney
- Highlands couple pledges estate legacy gift in excess of $10M to WCU
- Search underway for new athletics director
- WCU鈥檚 retired SID Steve White to be honored with naming of new media center
- CCESL to host MLK National Day of Service events
- Peace in action: WCU students bring Nobel ideas to San Diego
- Associate professor, students produce grant-funded documentary about Asheville-based Umoja Health, Wellness and Justice Collective
- WCU construction management students use SPOT to help local community
- Alumnus Ebenezer Gyamfi turns childhood struggles into career of care
- Partnership on the water: WCU outfitted with new Liquidlogic kayaks
- Students from WCU, Auburn collaborate in design charette
- WCU names renovated women鈥檚 basketball locker room in honor of program matriarch
- $35K URPA grant will support engineering students to develop AI manufacturing skills
- Martin Tanaka secures NCInnovation funding for new medical device
- Nearly 1,500 donors contribute $1.4 million to WCU on GivingTuesday
- King of the hills: WCU freshman Nassor Ashenafi, father go viral, persevere
- Professor鈥檚 challenging path from India to US inspires support for WCU business students
- Student philanthropists feted at fall semester Senior Toast
- WCU鈥檚 鈥極ur Natural World鈥� Camp for youngest Jackson County students ignites STEM passion in rural classrooms
- Swiss-born alumnus Simon Gugerli returns home as analyst with UBS bank
- WCU Athletics brings holiday cheer with Education Days for local students
- WCU EMS looks back on 60 years of serving campus community
- Student spotlight: Senior Alexis Shafir writes grant for local school鈥檚 printing press
- Retired professor, staff member spouse endow scholarship for psychology students
- WCU photography class restores damaged photos lost during Helene
- Scholarships help WCU economic analysis, political science major pursue career goals
- CET students build doghouses for SPOT, donate others to local animal rescue
- Call Me MiSTER welcomes new cohort for 2025-26
- Retired WCU professor brings forest therapy to Jackson County Greenway
- A new home in Poland: Boren scholar speaks on time abroad
- Alumni spanning 50 years honored at Homecoming for achievements, service
- WCU to expand student support services for STEM students
- GivingTuesday 鈥�25 to focus on support for academic excellence, Catamount Club
- Student spotlight: ABSN student Sarah Matesz overcomes Helene鈥檚 challenges
- Daughter鈥檚 experience in WCU inclusive ed program leads parents to create endowment
- The Carlyle Letters Online find new home at Hunter Library
- Power of Giving
- WCU faculty, staff add their names to 鈥楩ill the Western Sky鈥� campaign donor list
- Keeping Time
- Catamounts Take the NFL
- Service through adventure: Base Camp Cullowhee鈥檚 latest and greatest student expedition
- Loving Jackson County
- The Pifer Era Begins
- Road to the Show
- Shoot Your Shot
- 2025 notes from Chancellor Brown
- A Student's View
- Homefield Makeover
- Plastic Rain
- WCU faculty member receives $9,000 to conduct autism training workshops across NC
- Making (brain) waves: WCU adds neuroscience minor
- Retired PR professional creates endowment to support WCU students
- Young alumni spotlight: Blevins helps the Hornets buzz as account executive
- Internships help pave career paths for College of Business students
- Homefield Makeover
- Student spotlight: Nursing transfer Iyomi Grinan finds home at WCU
- $1.25 M gift to athletics pushes 鈥楩ill the Western Sky鈥� campaign past its $100 M goal
- Cherokee Center to hold 50th anniversary celebration Nov. 4
- OSR, OAR each earn $1.4 million TRIO Student Support Services grants
- Economic Impact
- Recreational therapy senior Meghan Greenly selected for prestigious award
- WCU launches master鈥檚 entry program in nursing to address regional workforce needs
- College of Business chili cookoff evolves into a campus battle of bowls set for Nov. 15
- Nursing school director endows scholarship for WCU鈥檚 new master鈥檚 degree program
- MAHEC expands access to healthcare with new office in Cullowhee
- Homecoming weekend at WCU set for Nov. 7-8 with parade, parties, alumni awards
- Bardo Arts Center to host reception for Cherokee Language and Cultural Exhibition
- University launches WCU Connect, a guaranteed admission programPage Title
- The Catamount School celebrates academic growth, rising enrollment
- Nowhere but UP
- College of Engineering receives $4.17 million in software donations from Moldex3D
- WCU鈥檚 Jeremy Jones reflects one year after Helene in Our State magazine
- WCU astronomers to celebrate International Observe the Moon Night with community
- WCU to host Echoes Across the Smokies
- Looking Back: Hurricane Helene
- Living history: WCU researchers work to capture Cherokee oral histories
- Donors support Alston Awards for WCU student-athletes鈥� academic achievements
- All in the family: Legacy Pinning event celebrates generations of Catamount connections
- Western Carolina Power receives Public Power Awards of Excellence
- Mountain Heritage Days earns NC green travel designation
- Retired professor creates faculty mentorship endowment in College of Business
- Students Kate Taylor, Jay Brown help new students adjust to life at WCU
- WCU playing role in regional effort to improve broadband access, training in WNC
- A Wild Beginning: Alumna Kara McMullen on a career in Panthertown
- Bluegrass in Blue Ridge: WCU students, alumni start Upstream Rebellion band
- From Curitiba to Cullowhee: A Brazilian reunion at WCU
- WCU鈥檚 Brett Riggs named honorary member of EBCI
- Pura Vida in practice: WCU Department of World Languages immerses students in Costa Rican culture
- WCU's ECHT project receives $450K grant from NEH
- WCU launches mechanical engineering degree, industrial engineering concentration
- From the age of steam to the age of AI, WCU puts students first, serves its region as economic engine
- Randy Collins named to National Engineering Education Committee
- A gift of hope: Supporting students in their mental health journey
- WCU volunteers rally to clean up Catamount Gap
- Student journalists attend national convention with support from the Fund for WCU
- Alumna kicks off post grad life with NCDHHS internship
- Engineering makes national list of best undergraduate programs
- Welcome to the Whee!
- Roger Smoker, Jackson County Public Libraries named 2025 Mountain Heritage Award recipients
- Alec Harris named development director for College of Education, Allied Professions
- WCU Greek Challenge nets $1.5 million for Catamount Club; winners announced
- WCU launches fully online MBA program
- Reinvigorated WCU retirees association elects officers, plans activities
- WCU alumni roll out the welcome mat for new incoming studentsPage Title
- New exhibition celebrating the gifts of Connie Bostic at WCU
- The wonder of North Carolina glass comes to WCU this fall
- Tax law changes lead donors to accelerate giving plans to WCU, other nonprofits
- Mountain Heritage Days to spotlight Appalachian language, history and music
- Senior Tim Thompson makes his mark at Los Angeles studio
- More than music: Inside WCU鈥檚 Summer Symposium
- Catamount Club shatters 2,000-member goal to unlock $1 million challenge gift
- Running to help: WCU student-athlete Landey Green helps others through two internships
- CATALYST program ignites passion for research and leadership in honors students
- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark comes to Bardo Arts Center
- WCU scholars publish new book on mental illness stigma
- Students get deep dive into Chinese culture, business during WCU summer travel course
- Understanding the House v. NCAA Settlement and what it means for WCU
- Mountain Heritage Center to host Mini-Mountain Heritage Day July 17
- WCU senior Tayler Franklin helps identify fallen soldiers at Pearl Harbor
- Alumni couple establish endowment for parks, rec program
- Catamount Adventures series takes alumni, friends to Portugal, Spain
- Preservation of an endangered language
- Digging it: WCU senior Jenna Dreyer works archaeology internship in Washington state
- NC Principal Fellows program expands with supplemental funding
- WCU professor protects the Dusky Gopher Frog from extinction
- WCU instructor, local nonprofit partner on entrepreneurship camp for underserved youth
- Mountain Heritage Center invites public to explore George Masa exhibition through August 15
- Couple who met at WCU orientation make 鈥楩ill the Western Sky鈥� leadership gift to athletics
- New faces join WCU Foundation Board; departing members recognized
- WCU holds groundbreaking for renovations to E.J. Whitmire Stadium
- Mountain Heritage Awards now accepting nominations
- College of Business launches two new graduate certificates for fall semester
- Construction management student invents 鈥楧ormclaw鈥�
- College of Engineering to offer ACE Machining Bootcamps this summer
- EMS holds christening event for new ambulance
- Alumnus Hank Henderson applies WCU guidance to job, pays it forward
- Student legislature takes home 鈥渂est delegation鈥� at Raleigh general assembly
- Catamounts start your engines
- Business faculty guide post-Helene recovery study for NC Arboretum
- Alumni participation sought for WCU Battle of the Bands competition
- Young alumni spotlight: Harp passes on guidance as Greek life adviser
- Josh Dobson, Nora Lynn Finch sworn in as members of the WCU Board of Trustees WCU Stories September 10, 2025
- Annual faculty-staff giving challenge resumes this fall
- WCU Mountain Heritage Center opens new Clearing the Hurdles exhibit
- 鈥楩ill the Western Sky鈥� contribution feels like a promise to Catamount couple
- WCU astronomers lead 13th annual statewide star party
- WCU鈥揅IHA partnership grows Cherokee鈥檚 next generation of healers
- Peter Koch promoted to associate director of Mountain Heritage Center
- Kyle Pifer named WCU Director of Athletics
- MHS program celebrates new graduates
- Interior design students address aging challenges through service learning
- Catamount Club to launch search for successor to assistant director C.J. Mitchell
- WCU sees strong retention rate for fall 2025, growth in total enrollment
- WCU to hold groundbreaking ceremony June 12 for stadium renovations project
- Schedule announced for WCU鈥檚 weeklong Mountain Heritage Days celebration
- UNC Board of Governors appoints Nora Lynn Finch, Tate Apodaca to Board of Trustees
- Alumna Kinley Cook brings passion to job as park guide
- Gifts from all 50 states help WCU hit 鈥極ne Day for Western鈥� goal of 1,200 donors
- RASC brings students, faculty, alumni together in scholarship celebration
- School of Stage and Screen earns NCTC award, set for spring musical
- $100k Gift from alumna to support English majors and student media organizations
- Brittany Kicklighter named director of development for athletics major gifts
- Catamount grads reflect on graduation cap decor
- From LEGO to launch: Antonson twins look back on their WCU journey
- WCU students present at National Conference on Undergraduate ResearchPage Title
- WNC teacher Lydia Sale continues WCU, education tradition in family
- WCU art student awarded first place in national ceramics exhibition
- First-generation college students reflect on journey to commencement
- Senior Toast honors philanthropy of soon-to-be graduates
- WCU earns 2025-2026 Military Friendly庐 school designation
- Bricker gets new WNC Community of Practice off the ground
- Alumnus divides gift to create scholarship honoring educator wife, support athletics upgrades
- Student spotlight: Jones, Rodriguez look forward to term as president, vice president
- University faculty, staff award winners announced for 鈥�25
- A whole lot of heart: WCU softball bat boy defies odds, cheers on Catamounts
- WCU to introduce Maddie, the virtual engagement officer
- Student spotlight: Senior Cora Haste impacts others through various roles
- Play ball! WCU pitches new 鈥楤allparks and Brews Tour鈥� for alumni, friends
- Nominations are open for annual alumni awards
- Tour of WCU athletics facilities spurs fundraising campaign gift
- Athletics Gala shines spotlight on Catamount student-athletes, impact of supporters
- WCU engineering program partners with healthcare provider for sinus device patent
- College of Education and Allied Professions earns A-plus for elementary math education courses
- April Tallant named director of Coulter Faculty Commons
- African American Alumni Society endows new scholarship fund
- Asheville dentist, wife give WCU student-athletes reason to smile with 鈥楩ill the Western Sky鈥� donation
- Junior Savannah McGlothlin named to ALL IN honor roll
- WCU interior design students address health, aging challenges through service learning
- Fulk is named Kneedler Distinguished Professor in Computer Info Systems
- WCU鈥檚 School of Music to welcome Pulitzer Prize, Grammy Award-winning composer Jennifer Higdon
- NC Governor鈥檚 Advisory Committee for Western North Carolina Recovery holds first in-person meeting at WCU
- ustin Pace to lead WCU School of Accounting, Finance, Info Systems, Business Law
- Campus pets lift spirits, bring smiles to WCU
- RASC 2025: David Joy and campus research presentations
- Alex Gary to resign after nearly five years as Athletics Director at WCU
- Restoring through research: WCU professors assist law enforcement and National Weather Service
- WCU launches engineering discovery program with new director Gretchen Dietz
- Student spotlight: WCU senior Mekeila Santiago stays involved through time on campus
- Electrical engineering students create a portable energy model for Duke Energy
- Restoring through research: professors navigate floodwaters post-Helene
- An axe to grind: The timbersports athletes of WCU鈥檚 Wildlife and Forestry Club
- Young alumni spotlight: Speyer reaching for the stars as systems engineer
- The hills have eyes
- WCU grieves the loss of longtime friend, supporter, community leader Reg Moody
- Students engage in undergraduate research across disciplines
- WCU ranked No. 3 on Forbes鈥� America鈥檚 Best Midsize Employers list
- WCU mourns passing of Honors College benefactor Greg Thompson
- WCU mourns loss of former Trustee Jeanette Wallace Hyde
- Restoring through research: WCU professors help rebuild after Helene
- WCU and Vance-Granville CC sign memorandum of understanding for guaranteed admission
- WCU sees high retention rate, notable increase in enrollment for spring 2025
- WCU expands Catamount Commitment to include transfer students甜瓜视频app is expanding its Catamount Commitment program with a new initiative to support transfer students from North Carolina Community Colleges.
- WCU professor secures $3 million in scholarships for students entering nuclear engineering field
- WCU social work students engage with alumni with help from Fund for WCU
- Catamount Club announces changes to Greek Challenge fundraiser, sets membership deadlines
- WCU Cherokee Language program receives $223K grant
- WCU set to host the Catamount Climb in April
- Christopher Teuton to serve as speaker for James Cooper Memorial Lecture in Cherokee Studies at WCU
- Gibbs earns grant worth nearly $40K for sicklefin redhorse research
- Pedonti earns $175K grant for STEM summer camp
- Donations to Fund for WCU support student writing contest at annual literary festival
- Fund for WCU supports library鈥檚 student art contest; winners now on display
- WCU launches a new guarantee for transfer students
- Kathy Jaqua earns prestigious W.W. Rankin Award
- WCU鈥檚 undergraduate business degree program makes U.S. News and World Report鈥檚 list for 2025 Best Online Programs
- SECU Public Fellowships Internship Program at WCU earns grant for new year
- Fund for WCU supports symposium on intersection of policing, social work
- Author and alumnus David Joy to give keynote address at WCU Research and Scholarship Conference
- Alumna Nora Lynn Finch to be inducted into North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame
- George H. Brown to retire as dean of Belcher College of Fine and Performing Arts at WCU after a decade of leadership
- Chancellor鈥檚 Ambassadors student organization receives leadership training through Fund for WCU
- Donors to Fund for WCU support ASP student trip to Central Europe
- Young alumni: Eliana Cruz broadens her horizons, lands job with Charlotte FC
- WCU students help Durham PD solve 2023 missing person case
- Former WCU Academic All-American pays homage to retired sports communicator
- Research and Scholarship Conference announces 2026 schedule of events
- Alumnus to take advantage of tax changes allowing gifts from IRAs
- CCESL puts $2,000 grant to use with MLK Day of Service events
- WCU Mountain Heritage Center opens new 鈥楳oonshine: Spirit of Independence鈥� exhibit
- WCU alum Frisby named NC SHAPE Middle School PE Teacher of the Year
- WCU Wind Ensemble, POTM selected to appear at 2026 CBDNA Southern Division Conference
- Weiler, Grist receive $70K grant to assist NC School for the Deaf
- Young alumni panel shares advice on 鈥榳hat鈥檚 next鈥� with current WCU students
- Fourth annual 鈥極ne Day for Western鈥� set for March 25
- Pair of Catamounts compete in national cycling races, find home in sport
- Alumni Office announces starting lineup for 2026 Ballparks and Brews Tour
- Book by WCU professor examines ethical issues in the business of sport
- WCU economist finds $144 million ROI on local Medicaid, SNAP funding
- WCU staff members volunteers with Olympics
- WCU choir, community chorus to perform Mendelssohn masterwork
- Who speaks for the trees? A conversation with master arborist Andrew Thigpen
- WCU seeking Catamount Captains to advocate for 鈥極ne Day for Western鈥�
- Dual-sport student-athlete Sadler Miller shows love for WCU on canvas
- WCU scholars, alumni celebrate return of Noquisiyi Mound to EBCI
- Young alumni: Christopher Childers brings stories to life as videographer
- WCU professor Brian Byrd receives 2026 BOG excellence in teaching award
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WCU Health Services achieves 2 accreditation milestones
March 25In December 2025, WCU Health Services earned first-time accreditation from the Association for Ambulatory Health Care, a national accrediting body for outpatient facilities, including university health centers, outpatient surgical centers and medical home facilities. Less than 30% of university health centers nationwide hold AAAHC accreditation.
