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Forum scheduled on community college to university transfers

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With a focus on best practices for helping students transfer from community colleges to UNC System institutions, the event will be held Thursday, March 28, at 2 p.m.

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Students help university to be designated ‘Voter Friendly Campus’

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Institutions were held accountable for planning and implementing practices that encouraged their students to register and vote in the 2018 elections and in the coming years.

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Search for health, human sciences dean suspended temporarily

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Current dean Douglas Keskula announced in April 2018 his intention to return to a faculty position in the Department of Physical Therapy.

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Trustees endorse design concept for proposed replacements for Scott, Walker residence halls

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The board also approved a construction manager at risk for the project, scheduled to begin at the end of the 2019-20 academic year.

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Cullowhee listed among nation’s most economically dynamic ‘micropolitan’ areas

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WCU's home community landed on a top-20 list that also includes Bozeman, Montana; Breckenridge, Colorado; and Key West, Florida.

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