WCU’s University Participant program gives students with intellectual disabilities the opportunity they’ve been waiting for. In 2007, program Co-Director Kelly Kelley questioned her then special education graduate professor, Dr. Westling, what WCU could be doing about inclusion on campus. Westling challenged his students to conceive a program that could do such a thing, and in […]
Behind the scenes: volunteers of the UP Program
February 17, 2016 by
“I can’t express to you how much this program means to me, how much the students, volunteers and staff have influenced and touched my life,” said two-year volunteer and now paid natural support for Western Carolina University’s University Participant Program (UP), Grayson Coleman. Coleman’s response is much like many other volunteer reactions when asked how […]
Pedal Nick, pedal!
April 23, 2012 by
It was a rainy, windy day in Cullowhee, N.C. but that didn’t stop one student from ‘going the distance’. Despite the gloomy weather, Nick Mashburn, a 21-year-old student and physical education major at Western Carolina University, spent Wednesday, April 18, on his bike pedaling for a cause. “Pedal for Push” is an event for Push […]
