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A study co-authored by a faculty member in Western Carolina University’s College of Business and colleagues at two other universities indicates that recent changes in economic market conditions may necessitate a closer look at a long-held retirement strategy.

Significant shifts in the retirement income environment across the nation intensified by the global COVID-19 pandemic are leading to increasing concerns among Americans about whether they will have sufficient funds to meet their needs during their golden years.

With the rapid emergence of generative artificial intelligence tools such as ChatGPT, many in academia are trying to determine how to best enable their students to gain experience with this increasingly valuable asset without making it easier for them to use the technology to complete assignments, tantamount to academic dishonesty.

How have lingering after-effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic – including labor shortages, supply chain disruptions, interest rate hikes and inflation – combined with the threat of a looming recession affected consumers, entrepreneurs and small businesses across the nation?

A federal program created by Congress in 1987 to help America’s farmers navigate economic challenges that threaten their livelihoods and endanger the nation’s food supply by providing them with access to mediation services as a way to resolve legal disputes should be continued and, in fact, expanded.

Western Carolina University’s Center for the Study of Free Enterprise, founded in 2015 as a hub for interdisciplinary scholarly inquiry and community engagement in the areas of economic development, applied research and the role of free enterprise in a flourishing society, is in the early phases of a metamorphosis with a new director and a focus on undergraduate student research.

Research being conducted by a marketing professor in Western Carolina University’s College of Business may shed light on how students can improve their own emotional awareness and develop the so-called “soft skills” that many of today’s employers desire.

The handbook is aimed at an audience including professors, doctoral students, graduate students and other research scholars in project management and related professions.

A groundbreaking study co-authored by a Western Carolina University professor of economics indicates that increased school choice may result in improvements in student mental health, with fewer incidents of adolescent suicide and a lower likelihood of mental health issues later in life.

A book written by Hossein Fazilatfar, assistant professor of business law at Western Carolina University, on what experts have called one of the most pressing issues in the field of international arbitration is winning rave reviews from legal scholars and attorneys from international law firms alike.