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WCU College of Business, Financial Aid Office launch student financial wellness program

A faculty member from the Western Carolina University College of Business has teamed up with staff in the WCU Office of Financial Aid to develop a pilot program to help young adults improve their financial literacy skills.  

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Headliner Sister Sadie and evening performance from Old Crow Medicine Show highlights MHD’s 50th anniversary

This year marks Mountain Heritage Day’s 50th anniversary, which will be held on Saturday, Sept. 28, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.   

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Alumni donate George Masa Collection to Hunter Library

Hunter Library’s Special and Digital Collections received a donation from alums William “Bill” Hart, Jr., Class of 1962, and Alice Huff Hart, Class of 1961.   

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Faculty, students from School of Art and Design travel to Beijing

Last year, Tom Ashcraft, director of the School of Art and Design, got a phone call from the WCU Global Office about a student from Beijing, China, wanting to be an exchange student in the Master of Fine Arts program.  

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From the Smokies to the Andes, WCU students visit Ecuador as part of tropical ecology and biogeography course

The ecological and biogeographical difference between the Great Smoky Mountains and the Andes Mountains are numerous, but there are few things they do have in common.  

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WCU sees strong fall 2024 enrollment, retention rate

For the first time since fall 2020, WCU has seen an increase in total enrollment with 11,686 students enrolled for the fall 2024 semester.  

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Plans underway for College of Business travel course to China in summer 2025

The fall semester may have just begun, but that hasn’t stopped two faculty members in the College of Business from turning some of their attention toward next summer when they will team-teach a travel course in China.  

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Chancellor Brown announces changes in Advancement leadership

Chancellor Kelli R. Brown has announced that Jamie T. Raynor will transition from her current position as vice chancellor for advancement into a new role as special campaign adviser, effective immediately.  

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The Catamount School comes home to WCU

The Catamount School is now located in the Cordelia Camp Building, which was built in 1964 and housed the Camp Laboratory School until its closing in 1994.   

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