- Tickets go on sale Nov. 30 for 'An Evening With Garrison Keillor' at WCU
- WCU's Costa to discuss Darwin book in Nov. 23 presentation
- Students win national awards at mediation tournament
- School of Music to present 'Sounds of the Season' holiday concert Dec. 6
- Heritage Center jam series to feature Dec. 3 concert by fiddler Danielle Bishop
- Athletic training group completes Mountain Jug Run from WCU to ASU
- WCU to mark Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week Nov. 15-21
- N.C. Symphony to play Dec. 11 holiday concert at WCU
- Marching band selected to participate in 2011 Rose Parade
- International Education Week events to feature eyewitness to South African apartheid
Cotton (pictured at right), a senior majoring in accounting, was elected during the spring semester as SGA president, a position that also includes ex officio membership on the university’s board of trustees. A 2005 graduate of Hickory High School, he took the oath of office to open the board’s spring meeting.
“You are the most important person on this board,” Joan MacNeill, chair of WCU’s trustees, told Cotton. “You represent the constituency that is the reason we all are here.”
MacNeill also thanked three outgoing members of the board for their years of service to the university. Retired Madison County entrepreneur Genevieve Burda, Knoxville corporate executive William “Teddy” Phillips Jr. and former N.C. Secretary of Commerce Rick Carlisle are rotating off the board, with three new members to be appointed before the trustees’ next meeting in September.
In other action, the board unanimously approved a recommendation from WCU Chancellor John Bardo to grant a three-year extension to Chip Smith, director of athletics since 2004.
“This extension is very well deserved,” said Charles Worley, secretary of the board of trustees. “Chip has done an outstanding job for this university.”
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