ĢƵ

Skip to content
  • Programs
  • Visit
  • Apply
  • Programs
  • Visit
  • Apply
  • Academics
    • Explore All Programs
    • Colleges
    • The Honors College
    • Graduate School
    • Online at WCU
    • Hunter Library
  • Admissions & Aid
    • Undergraduate Admissions
    • Graduate Admissions
    • Tuition and Fees
    • Financial Aid
    • Scholarships
    • New Student Orientation
    • Visit WCU
  • Catamount Life
    • Residential Living
    • Campus Activities
    • Campus Recreation & Wellness
    • Counseling & Psychological Services
    • Health Services
    • Office of Accessibility 
  • Community & Alumni
    • Alumni Association
    • Regional Development
    • Event Services
  • About Western Carolina
    • Fast Facts
    • Main Campus
    • ĢƵin Asheville
    • Leadership

Information For

  • Stories
  • Advancement
  • Bardo Arts Center
  • Faculty
  • Ramsey Center

CCESL Blog

  • Home
  • Learn
  • Academic Enrichment
  • center-for-service-learning
  • Blog
  • 2025 Magazine
  • About WCU
  • Academics
  • Admissions
  • Advancement
  • Alan Ritchie Memorial Scholarship Fund
  • Alumni
  • Anthropology
  • Appalachia
  • Apply
  • Arts and Culture
  • Athletics
  • Awards and Recognition
  • Bardo Arts Center
  • Barto Arts Center
  • Biology
  • Board of Directors
  • Board of Trustees
  • Brinson Honors College
  • Campus Development
  • Campus History
  • Catamount Club
  • Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning
  • Cherokee Center
  • Cherokee Language Program
  • Cherokee Studies
  • Clinical Mental Health Counseling
  • College of Arts and Sciences
  • College of Business
  • College of Education and Allied Professions
  • College of Engineering and Technology
  • College of Fine and Performing Arts
  • College of Health and Human Sciences
  • Commencement
  • Community Engagement
  • Connie Bostic
  • Current Exhibitions
  • Current Students
  • Current Students and Alumni
  • Department of Social Work
  • Discover
  • Division of Advancement
  • Donations
  • Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
  • Endowment
  • English Department
  • Enrollment
  • Environmental Health
  • Events
  • Exhibits
  • Experience
  • Faculty
  • Faculty Research
  • Faculty Scholarship
  • Faculty Spotlight
  • Faculty and Staff
  • Faulty
  • Fill the Western Sky
  • Fine Art Museum
  • Forensic Anthropology
  • Forensic Science
  • Forestry and Wildlife Club
  • Give to WCU
  • Giving
  • Graduate Program News
  • Graduate School
  • Grants
  • Hamlet
  • Highlands Biological Station
  • Homecoming
  • Hurricane Helene Recovery
  • Ideas with Impact
  • Impact Grants
  • Jackson County
  • MHD
  • Master of Business Administration
  • Master of Psychology
  • Mountain Heritage
  • Mountain Heritage Center
  • Mountain Heritage Days
  • NC Promise
  • Nascar
  • Natural Resouces
  • News
  • News and Events
  • North Carolina Arboretum
  • North Carolina Glass
  • Parks and Recreation Management
  • Physical Therapy
  • Pride of the Mountains
  • Pride of the Mountains Marching Band
  • Regional Impact
  • Research
  • Research and Discovery
  • Research at WCU
  • Rooted in the Mountains
  • Scholarship
  • Scholarships
  • School of Music
  • School of Nursing
  • Service
  • Shakespeare
  • Student Experience
  • Student News
  • Student Spotlight
  • Student-Athlete Stories
  • Study Abroad
  • Timbersports
  • UP
  • Undergraduate Research
  • University Participant Program
  • ĢƵBoard of Trustees
  • ĢƵClubs
  • ĢƵFine Art Museum
  • ĢƵFoundation Board
  • ĢƵMagazine
  • ĢƵMagazine 24
  • World Languages
  • alumni spotlights
  • blog
  • bluegrass
  • campus life
  • cherokee language
  • engineering
  • health sciences
  • hunter library
  • interior design
  • mountain heritage day
  • pets
  • rapid center
  • student government association
  • wcu global
  • 2026
  • 2025
  • 2024
  • 2023
  • 2022
  • 2021
  • 2020
  • 2019
  • 2018
    !
  • ĢƵstudents with Paws

    Third annual ‘One Day for Western’ set for March 26

    Bill Studenc
    February 10

    ĢƵ’s annual all-in day of giving to the institution, titled “One Day for Western” and taking place Wednesday, March 26, will focus on garnering philanthropic gifts for all of the Catamount sports teams and for endowments supporting academic excellence.

  • ĢƵstudent teachers working with students

    ĢƵexpands Catamount Commitment to include transfer students

    ĢƵStories
    February 7

    ĢƵ is expanding its Catamount Commitment program with a new initiative to support transfer students from North Carolina Community Colleges.

  • Spring at WCU

    ĢƵsees high retention rate, notable increase in enrollment for spring 2025

    Julia Duvall
    February 7

    ĢƵexperienced a notable increase in total enrollment from spring 2024 to spring 2025, with a 1.73% increase and a 2.39% increase in undergraduate students. The university also saw a 2.23% retention rate increase for fall 2024 to spring 2025 with a 92.14% retention rate reported.

  • Spring at WCU

    ĢƵsees high retention rate, notable increase in enrollment for spring 2025

    February 7

    The spring semester is underway at ĢƵ and that means looking at how the university’s enrollment is shaping up for the first few weeks of the new year.

  • ĢƵstudent teaching intern in classroom

    ĢƵexpands Catamount Commitment to include transfer students

    February 7

    ĢƵ is expanding its Catamount Commitment program with a new initiative to support transfer students from North Carolina Community Colleges.

  • Placeholder image

    ĢƵsocial work students engage with alumni with help from Fund for WCU

    Bill Studenc
    February 5

    Students from ĢƵ’s Department of Social Work fanned out across Western North Carolina during the 2024 falls semester to connect with previous graduates of the program and encourage engagement by the ĢƵalumni with their program and their alma mater.

  • Placeholder image

    ĢƵprofessor secures $3 million in scholarships for students entering nuclear engineering field

    Matt Salerno
    February 5

    Bora Karayaka, a professor at ĢƵ’s College of Engineering and Technology, has secured $3 million in scholarship funding from the Department of Energy through the University Nuclear Leadership Program.

  • Vittal Anantatmula

    The Intersection of Knowledge Management and Managing Projects

    Vittal Anantatmula
    February 5

    A new book written by a professor of project management in the College of Business at ĢƵ is designed to help members of business organizations improve their skills in both project management skills and knowledge management.

  • Whee Belong Hickory gathering

    The Fund for ĢƵsupports ‘Whee Belong’ gatherings for distance ed students

    Bill Studenc
    February 5

    The Office of Distance Learning at ĢƵ used $7,000 in 1889 Impact Grants Program funding to host in-person events during the spring of 2024 to bring together distance learning students, most of whom take courses fully online, are 25 or older, work full-time, and have families and lives beyond school.

  • Patient being seen in Vecinos Clinic

    Vecinos clinic receives tech upgrade through donations to Fund for WCU

    Bill Studenc
    February 5

    Health care providers in the primary care clinic area of ĢƵ’s Health and Human Sciences Building are now able to take advantage of upgraded technology to help meet the needs of the patients they serve.

Previous Page
  • 25
  • 26
  • 27
  • 28
  • 29
Next Page

#LiveWestern

Programs
Visit
Apply

1 University Drive,
Cullowhee, NC
28723

828.227.7211

Quick Links

Emergency Information
Staff Directory
Title IX
© Copyright 2026 ĢƵ