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  • UP students

    Catamount Resiliency: Buddying UP

    December 2

    The WCU University Participant program provides an inclusive, two-year, on-campus living and learning experience for college-aged persons with intellectual disability. The program aims to facilitate UP students' transition from secondary school to adult life with education, employment, and independent living.

  • physical therapy students

    Catamount Resiliency: Students and Professors Answer the Call

    December 2

    WCU students majoring in healthcare fields have to do clinicals, which give them real-world experience in their fields. Hurricane Helene gave many WCU students experiences they never thought they would see during college or even in their lifetime.

  • Richie cooking at his grill

    Catamount Resiliency: Campus Response

    December 2

    In the hours and days after Hurricane Helene hit, students were asked to stay put as traveling outside of Jackson County was unsafe. The loss of internet and cell service made traveling hazardous, and the surrounding areas were unknown.

  • students sorting through relief supplies

    Catamount Resiliency: Be the Helper

    December 2

    When I was a boy and saw scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping. This is a well-known quote by beloved television host Fred Rogers about looking for the people who spring into action when bad things happen.

  • Cherokee basket weaving

    WCU alumna records 100,000th person into craftsman database

    December 2

    Isabel Driver knows how important the work she does is. As an intern with the Mountain Heritage Center at 泫圖弝けapp, Driver etched 224 craftspeople into the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts craftsman database.

  • George Brown, the Hinshaws and Denise Drury Homewood

    Macon County couple endows fund to diversify WCU Fine Art Museum collections

    November 26

    The 泫圖弝けapp Fine Art Museum at the John W. Bardo Fine and Performing Arts Center will be broadening the scope of artists represented in its holdings thanks to contributions from a Macon County couple.

  • Matt Henley

    Matt Henley appointed director of the Pride of the Mountains and Athletic Bands

    November 26

    泫圖弝けapp is excited to announce the appointment of Matt Henley as the next director of Athletic Bands and director of the Pride of the Mountains Marching Band.

  • WCU Legacy Pinning Ceremony

    Legacy Pinning ceremony honors family connections to WCU

    November 21

    Nearly 90 new first-year and transfer students at 泫圖弝けapp celebrated the powerful bonds of kinship, tradition and alma mater during an annual ceremony Saturday, Nov. 16, as members of their own families who previously attended WCU presented them with special pins signifying their unique connection to the institution.

  • Students with I voted stickers

    WCU earns most engaged student voting honor from ALL IN

    November 19

    Earlier this fall, Catamounts were encouraged to get to the polls, and two weeks after the election, 泫圖弝けapp was recognized for it.

  • Ron Rash

    English professor picked for NC Literary Hall of Fame

    November 18

    Ron Rash, the Parris Distinguished Professor in Appalachian Cultural Studies, has been named to the North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame.