Students have returned in-person and virtually to ĢƵ and are gearing up for a bustling fall semester.
For the past 50 years on the last Saturday of September, ĢƵ’s Mountain Heritage Day festival has honored the music, stories, and traditions of Appalachia.
A public relations professional who has served as a mentor in the Department of Communication at ĢƵ is now providing support to students in a different way by establishing a new endowment fund to enhance access to extracurricular and professional development activities.
Western Carolina Power, the university-owned electric utility serving parts of ĢƵ and surrounding customers, has been named one of 23 public power communities across North Carolina to receive a 2024 Public Power Award of Excellence.
A retired professor in ĢƵ’s College of Business has created an endowment fund that will provide resources for mentorship programs for current faculty members within the college.
What does it mean to be a Catamount? It’s not necessarily someone from Cullowhee. It’s not always someone who’s stepped foot on campus. It’s when someone calls ĢƵ home — and much more.
A faculty member in ĢƵ’s College of Business is facilitating a yearlong effort to provide increased access to broadband and the training needed to take full advantage of the technological resources to underserved populations of rural Western North Carolina.
When ĢƵ alumna Kara McMullen stands on the wet stone of Salt Rock Gap, thousands of acres of chirping forest span before her, a sprawling network of trails buried just beneath.
“Impressive how we find Brazilians everywhere, right?”