Pre-Health Professional Club sponsoring “Dinner With Friends”

Western Carolina University’s Pre-Health Professional Club is sponsoring “Dinner With Friends” on Thursday, April 28 to raise money for a local non-profit organization. “Dinner With Friends” is a fundraising event that asks campus and community members to dine out at one of five restaurants on April 28 that have agreed to donate a portion of […]

Chancellor-elect Belcher addresses WCU

Dr. David Belcher, who will become Western Carolina University’s chancellor on July 1, visited campus on Monday to introduce himself to the WCU community and to address what some of his priorities will be when he takes over. In the Fine and Performing Arts Center to about 450 members of WCU’s faculty, staff and students, […]

Belcher named WCU’s new chancellor

Dr. David Belcher was announced Western Carolina University’s 11th chancellor in the school’s 122 year history at 10:50 a.m. on Friday, April 8. The announcement was made at the end of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors bi-monthly meeting in Chapel Hill and was telecast to the Blue Ridge Conference Room on campus and […]

WCU’s new chancellor will be announced Friday

The announcement of Western Carolina University’s new chancellor will be this Friday, April 8 at the University of North Carolina Board of Governors meeting in Chapel Hill. If all of the technical considerations go as planned, the announcement will be streamed live to the Blue Ridge Conference Room at WCU. The Board of Governors meeting […]

Clinical Science Program eliminated, but not in 2011

In order to become more efficient and prepare for drastic budget cuts for the 2011-12 school year, the UNC System axed 60 programs across the state earlier this month across its 17 campuses. Ten universities saw program eliminations according to a released report by system officials, which also had Western Carolina University as losing a […]

Ten WCU employees lose jobs to budget cuts

Ten Western Carolina University employees received notification that their jobs would be eliminated at or before April 1 and 15 more will be cut in the upcoming months as part of the university’s efforts to deal with the projected loss of approximately $8.6 million in state funding for the 2011-12 fiscal year. Among those cut was Barbara Hardie, Director of the Writing Center.