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George H. Brown to retire as dean of Belcher College of Fine and Performing Arts at WCU after a decade of leadership

After ten years of serving as Western Carolina University’s dean of Belcher College of Fine and Performing Arts, George H. Brown is retiring.  

Chancellor's Ambassadors

Chancellor’s Ambassadors student organization receives leadership training through Fund for WCU

Thanks to funding from donors to the Fund for WCU, members of a student organization tasked with assisting Western Carolina University’s chancellor at selected on- and off-campus events received specialized training to assist them in their roles as student representatives of WCU  

WCU students at a MAPS event on campus

WCU recognized for commitment to advancing first-generation student success

Western Carolina University was recently selected as one of twenty new higher education institutions to advance to the network leader phase of the FirstGen Forward Network.   

Project Discovery students on a bike trip

Project Discovery celebrates, reflects on 40th anniversary

Heath Robertson sat at the back of the bus on a college tour trip when he was asked about his future plans. Robertson’s answer? He didn’t have any.   

HHS

Aliya Bailey named director of development for WCU College of Health, Human Sciences

Aliya D. Bailey, former assistant director of annual giving at the Fordham University School of Law, has been named director of development for Western Carolina University’s College of Health and Human Sciences.  

Old Crow Medicine Show

Rescheduled Mountain Heritage Day 50th Anniversary Concert set for March 23

Western Carolina University is excited to announce the rescheduled Mountain Heritage Day 50th anniversary evening concert, now set for Sunday, March 23, at the Liston B. Ramsey Regional Activity Center. Doors will open at 4 p.m.  

Bill Conway with WCU nursing students

Conway Scholars meet benefactor, hear from NCDHHS secretary, receive nursing pins

The nearly 75 members of the inaugural class of Conway Scholars in Western Carolina University’s School of Nursing met their benefactor and heard a message of gratitude for obstacles overcome and encouragement for challenges ahead from North Carolina’s highest ranked health care official Thursday, Dec. 12, on the eve of commencement.  

WCU alumnus Keith Ramsey

Funds launched by alumnus support preprofessional health majors, marching band students

Two scholarship funds established by a Western Carolina University alumnus who grew up the son of Sylva’s first full-time optometrist before embarking upon his own distinguished medical career have supported scores of WCU students majoring in preprofessional health programs and participating in marching band.  

Paws with fans at a football game

GivingTuesday nets record-breaking $6M, sets stage for $1M Catamount Club challenge

Friends and alumni contributed more than $6 million to Western Carolina University during the 2024 GivingTuesday initiative, nearly quadrupling the previous record set last year and setting the stage for a corresponding challenge gift that would unlock significant additional funding for WCU athletics facilities renovations.  

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