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Service Learning Fair to be held Tuesday
More than 40 community groups will participate in the Service Learning Fair to be held in the Grandroom of A.K. Hinds University Center from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 24.

King events continue through Saturday
Emmy Award-winning broadcaster and journalist Ed Gordon will be the keynote speaker for WCU’s annual celebration honoring slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

WCU community in the giving spirit
Students, faculty and staff dedicated their time before the holidays to supporting a range of efforts that benefit organizations locally, across the country and abroad.

Campus leaders to eat on $1.50 a day to raise poverty awareness
Inspired by the presentation by the CEO of the Global Poverty Project on campus in September, the president of WCU’s Student Government Association and the wife of Chancellor David O. Belcher are participating in the Live Below the Line Campaign beginning Monday, Oct. 24. They invite others to join or sponsor them in the effort.

Students join in community effort to fight hunger
Nearly 100 volunteers from the Western Carolina University community spent the afternoon of Saturday, Oct. 1, packaging thousands of meals for Stop Hunger Now, an international hunger relief organization.

WCU faculty awards highlight engaged teaching

The inaugural winners of the Chancellor’s Meritorious Award for Engaged Teaching have involved students in activities from development of a combination stretcherwheelchair to visiting death row as part of a discussion of capital punishment.

Faculty member receives honor for service-learning trip to Honduras

A Western Carolina University faculty member who organized a trip to help the impoverished people of rural Honduras has been honored for her efforts by the WCU office that oversees service learning.

WCU named to national honor roll for service

The Corporation for National and Community Service named Western Carolina University to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service-learning efforts and leadership in building a “culture of civic engagement.”

National survey gives WCU high marks for students' academic engagement

WCU's efforts to ensure that students are fully engaged in the process of learning, both in and out of the classroom, earned high marks on a national survey measuring the quality of undergraduate education based upon student involvement with their studies, professors and campus communities.

Community service tops 16,000 hours in honor of Homecoming

Western Carolina University expanded the traditional day of service as part of Homecoming events to a month and exceeded a goal of completing 10,000 hours of community service.

Service Learning program grows from department into center

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.

Six WNC community agencies win WCU partnership awards

WCU recently presented six Western North Carolina community agencies with Service Learning Partnership Awards in recognition of exemplary collaboration with university students and faculty working on community service projects that are linked to the academic curriculum.