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TEE TIME

Courtney Gunter, former assistant women’s golf coach at Coastal Carolina University, is reading the greens and hitting the fairways at Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ after being named head coach of the women’s golf team over the summer.  

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(PURPLE AND) GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY

Long gone are the days when Baxter Wood ’58 MAEd ’63, former director of A.K. Hinds University Center, hauled members of Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµâ€™s men’s basketball team to away games in his new 1958 Chrysler New Yorker or when community members took out personal loans to field the football team, repaid with gate receipts at the end of the season.  

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LIFTING OTHERS UP

Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ running back Corey Holloway says his body is stronger, he runs faster and his football team has a confidence it never had before.  

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PRIDE OF THE MOUNTAINS DIRECTOR INDUCTED INTO BAND HALL OF FAME

David Starnes, director of the award-winning Pride of the Mountains Marching Band, will be inducted into the Bands of America Hall of Fame in March.   

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HIGHLANDS BIOLOGICAL STATION BECOMES FORMAL UNIT OF WCU

The internationally renowned Highlands Biological Station, located in Highlands, is now formally an installation of Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ, furthering an already strong relationship between the two institutions.   

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STUDENT HOUSING PLANS CALL FOR NEW COMPLEX ON WEST CAMPUS, REPLACEMENT OF SCOTT AND WALKER

In the wake of record total student enrollment and the largest freshman class in its history this past fall, Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ took several steps toward providing the additional housing necessary to accommodate anticipated growth in the years ahead.  

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CHANCELLOR SEARCH PROCESS IS BACK IN HIGH GEAR

The quest to find Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµâ€™s next chancellor is hitting high gear as the committee leading the search for a successor to the late David O. Belcher is in the process of reviewing candidate materials and selecting a to-be-determined number of candidates to participate in off-campus interviews early this winter.  

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ENROLLMENT RECORDS SHATTERED AGAIN AS Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµTOPS 11,600 STUDENTS

It’s beginning to sound like a broken record, this talk of broken records when it comes to enrollment at Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ where, for the third consecutive year and the seventh time in the past eight years, the institution has experienced increases in both the size and academic qualifications of its student body.  

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Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµJOINING REGIONAL PARTNERS IN OUTDOORS INDUSTRY PROJECT

Ä¢¹½¶ÌÊÓÆµ has joined a regional collaborative that plans to use a grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission to boost an already thriving Western North Carolina outdoor recreation industry to an even higher level.