• Clyde Simmons

    Cat Chats: Curtis Roach and Clyde Simmons

    August 15

    In this edition of Cat Chats, we talk with Curtis Roach and Clyde Simmons. Clyde played for the Catamounts in the 1983 National Championship game and was drafted in the ninth round by the Philadelphia Eagles of the NFL.

  • Endye Frazier during a match

    Endye Frazier

    August 15

    During her four years on the soccer field at Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ, Endye Frazier showed the kind of growth coaches love to see. Off the field, her work with the Special Olympics displayed the type of compassion everyone should seek to have.

  • Dan Brooks with friends

    Cat Chats: Dan Brooks and Mike Murphy

    August 15

    In this edition of Cat Chats, current football student-athlete Mike Murphy talks with former player Dan Brooks '76. Dan went on to coach at Tennessee and Clemson. He is also a member of the Catamount Club Board of Directors.

  • Catamount football fans at a recent home game

    Catamount Club Day

    August 15

    Announced in conjunction with Western Carolina’s football home opener back on Labor Day weekend, the Catamount Club, the Athletics department fundraising arm, is celebrating a milestone this year with its 50th year of operation. Fifty years of supporting student-athletes; fifty years of celebrating successes both on and off the field. Fifty years of connecting and engaging with alumni and community friends; fifty years of investing in the unlimited potential of student-athletes to inspire the Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµcampus community.

  • Chancellor Kelli R. Brown greets faculty and staff prior to Fall Opening Assembly

    From the age of steam to the age of AI, Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµputs students first, serves its region as economic engine

    August 14

    Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ has faced many challenges over the past year: a historic storm, an ever-changing landscape in higher education, competition for enrollment, and budget uncertainty from the state and federal levels.

  • Randy Collins

    Randy Collins named to National Engineering Education Committee

    August 13

    Randy Collins, dean of the College of Engineering and Technology at Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ, has been selected as a member of the executive committee and director of the Engineering Deans Council of the American Society for Engineering Education.

  • Catamount Blitz volunteers from left to right: Andy Pedonti, Chancellor Kelli R. Brown, Catherine MacCallum and Jason Turner

    Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµvolunteers rally to clean up Catamount Gap

    August 12

    Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ has changed in many ways since its founding in 1889, but one tradition has always stayed true: Catamounts give back, and they honor the land they’re standing on.

  • Michael and Rebecca Schlosser photographed in 2019

    A gift of hope: Supporting students in their mental health journey

    August 12

    Universities and colleges across the United States are finding that an ever-increasing number of students on their campuses are dealing with a variety of mental health issues, ranging from anxiety and depression to thoughts of suicide.

  • Florida Ahado

    Alumna kicks off post grad life with NCDHHS internship

    August 11

    Recent Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ alumna Florida Ahado drives around Raleigh and is reminded of her impact about everywhere she goes.

  • kids at camp

    Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµInstructor, Local Nonprofit Partner on Entrepreneurship Camp for Underserved Youth

    August 6

    A Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ instructor of management will be leading a weeklong entrepreneurship and leadership camp for underserved youth in Western North Carolina to help them get an early jump on learning some of the steps necessary for starting a business.