The check wasn’t in the mail. This time, the check was in the handshake, when Catamount Club president Tobe Childers ’61 recently accepted a gift of $25,000 from E. Jerry Coleman III, executive vice president for private wealth management with SunTrust North Carolina in Charlotte.
Tickets go on sale Monday, Aug. 27, for a pre-Mountain Heritage Day performance at Western Carolina University by acoustic music virtuoso Sam Bush.
Western Carolina University’s online bachelor’s degree program in criminal justice has been given a No. 1 national ranking in affordability by the distance education information clearinghouse GetEducated.com.
Western Carolina University’s online Master of Entrepreneurship Program has been recognized as one of the five best online entrepreneurship programs in the nation by Fortune Small Business magazine.
Leaders at WCU and U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler agreed Wednesday (Aug. 22) to work together whenever possible for the benefit of the people of the region that the university serves and the district that the congressman represents.
The Western Carolina University accountancy program will hold its annual fall banquet at 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21, at the Waynesville Country Club Inn.
The Mountain Heritage Center extended an exhibit on natural history explorer William Bartram through Sunday, Sept. 30.
Michael Dougherty, dean of the College of Education and Allied Professions at Western Carolina University since July 1998, will be stepping down from the position at the end of the 2007-08 academic year.
What began at Western Carolina University seven years ago as a program of community service quickly grew into a department and is now a center – the Center for Service Learning.
The Lectures, Concerts and Exhibitions Series at WCU will feature seven cultural arts programs during the 2007-08 academic year, including a theatrical show, spoken word and an opera.
The Carolinas Photonics Consortium formally announced the CPC Pilot Funding Program in a statewide video conference held August 14 at Western Carolina University.
Western’s new student e-mail service, Catamount Mail, will roll out this fall. All students will receive Catamount Mail accounts at the beginning of the fall semester. Existing WCU student e-mail accounts will be phased out by fall break.
Beginning Monday, Aug. 20, Western Carolina University students, faculty and staff who live in off-campus housing can take a Jackson County Transit bus to Western.
Actress and singer Linda Lavin, a star of stage and screen with a Tony and two Golden Globe awards to her credit, will be performing at WCU at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 8, in the Fine and Performing Arts Center.
Two employees of the city of Asheville are working toward master’s degrees in public affairs this fall through the municipality’s fellowship program with Western Carolina University.
In his annual Opening Assembly address Wednesday, Aug. 15, to kick off the academic year, Chancellor John W. Bardo told WCU faculty, staff and students that implementing the Quality Enhancement Plan (or QEP) and tenure policy changes will result in a university that is a “steward of place” for the region.
Local history writer and book critic Rob Neufeld will be the featured presenter as the 2007-08 edition of the Appalachian Cultural Lunchtime Series begins Wednesday, Sept. 5, at Western Carolina University’s Mountain Heritage Center.
Betty Gwen Carlton, assistant professor of nursing at Western Carolina University, is the recipient of a $15,000 award presented by the North Carolina Nurse Scholars Commission.
Listeners who enjoy the classic rock ‘n’ roll hits featured on WCU’s Power 90.5 WWCU-FM radio station are getting a special treat these days, thanks to the persuasive powers of Student General Manager Kyle McCurry.
Western Carolina University is ready to raise the curtain on its 2007-08 theatre season as the University Players hit the stage with three full-length selections—“The Nerd,” “Lucky Stiff” and “Guys and Dolls”—as well as a Festival of One Acts.
Paul Heckert, professor of physics at Western Carolina University, will offer an early-morning lunar eclipse observing session Tuesday, Aug. 28, at the Jackson County Airport near Cullowhee.
Two of the nation’s leading experts in the use of DNA technology in criminal investigations will visit WCU on Thursday, Aug. 30, for a pair of public presentations made possible by Tony White, a 1969 graduate of Western.
Live audio from Western Carolina University’s summer commencement was piped to the Caribbean island country of Jamaica as WCU honored approximately 460 graduating students, including 112 Jamaican teachers, on Friday, Aug. 3.
The Society of Broadcast Engineers has announced that Padraig Acheson, Western Carolina University director of television studio operations, has earned its certified television operator professional certification.
In response to a growing need for neutral mediators to resolve agricultural disputes, a course in Superior Court mediation will be offered Oct. 7-11 by the N.C. Agriculture Mediation Program at Western Carolina University.
WCU researchers are using geographic information systems technology and radio transmitters to track timber rattlesnakes to determine whether new mountain subdivisions and road-building are pushing an animal listed as a “species of special concern” toward the endangered list.
The board of trustees of Western Carolina University will hold its quarterly meeting at 9:30 a.m. Friday, Aug. 31, in the board room of H.F. Robinson Administration Building.
The Fine Art Museum at Western Carolina University will begin its 2007-08 season with a celebration of the life and work of acclaimed North Carolina ceramic artist Norm Schulman.
N.C. Gov. Mike Easley signed a $20.7 billion budget bill Tuesday, July 31, that includes $46.2 million in funding for a new health and gerontological sciences building at Western Carolina University.
The 2007 Meet the Cats event will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 22, at the E. J. Whitmire Stadium on campus at WCU. This event is free and open to the general public.
Prospective students can learn about the 100 courses WCU will offer in Asheville this fall semester during an information and registration session set for 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 16.
Freshman move-in day at WCU this year will have a different twist, with the newest Catamounts scheduled to move into their residence hall rooms on Friday, Aug. 17, instead of the typical Saturday of years past.
Charlotte d’Amboise, Tony Award-nominated star of the revival of “A Chorus Line” on Broadway, is one of the visiting artists taking part in the inaugural “Broadway in the Mountains” summer camp at Western Carolina University.
Representatives of five universities and from private business and industry will convene – some live and in person, others via videoconferencing – at WCU for a daylong symposium Tuesday, Aug. 14, on the future of photonics in North and South Carolina.
