This one day conference, held in the fall each year, is for school counselors, social workers, nurses, psychologists, attendance officers, school resource officers and other student personnel workers. Student services personnel come together at Lake Junaluska for a day of sharing ideas that work and to network/connect with colleagues.
Legislator's School for Youth Leadership Development (LSYLD) targets students in grades eight through eleven who display potential leadership qualitites. LSYLD is a summer residential program, funded by the North Carolina General Assembly beginning in 1985. The Office for Rural Education (ORE) operates this program on the campus of WCU in Cullowhee.
Reach to Teach/Teachers of Tomorrow
This on-campus program is held annually for regional minority middle and high school students to encourage them to consider careers in education.
The Rural-Urban Exchange Program provides teacher-education candidates with an experience in working with diverse higher education and public school faculty, diverse candidates, and diverse students in P-8 schools. Students from both WCU and NCAT&T have the opportunity to interact and work with teacher-education students from varying ethnic, racial, language and socioeconomic groups in professional education activites on campus and in public school.