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Welcome Class of 2025

This weekend we welcomed back our catamount family to Cullowhee. Among those students were the freshman class of 2025 who spent the weekend embracing their new home.  

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Welcome Back Cats!

Our campus has been quiet all summer without all of our Catamounts around. We're excited to welcome faculty, staff, and students back for the Fall semester!  

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Chancellor Brown inspires hope during Fall Opening

If you had to choose one word to describe the strength that WCU faculty, staff and students harnessed during the last academic year to navigate through a historic pandemic, it would be resiliency.   

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School of Nursing partners with Haywood County for improved pediatric care

Kae Livsey, an associate professor in the School of Nursing, is the recipient of a $10,000 prize award from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to help improve pediatric care in Haywood County.   

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New Student Convocation 2021

New Student Convocation is an important event that marks the official welcome to the university. We are excited to congratulate and celebrate the arrival of WCU's new students with an event they will not forget.  

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WCU Board of Trustees to meet Sept. 2-3

The regular quarterly meeting of the Board of Trustees of Western Carolina University will be held on Friday, Sept. 3, at 9:30 a.m.   

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Events planned to celebrate Class of 2020 around home opener football game

WCU will celebrate its Class of 2020 through a series of live events – including fireworks – for those alumni whose senior year was largely virtual and anything but normal.  

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Kae Livsey named to federal advisory board on nursing education

Kae Livsey with the School of Nursing has been named to the National Advisory Council on Nurse Education and Practice.  

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Project management is more than just a job description

The art of project management is something that Western Carolina University alum Joseph Foxx learned quickly. The 35-year-old technical support engineer is the father of a 15-year-old daughter and an 11-year-old son who worked full time at a manufacturing company in Fletcher. He did all of that while driving back and forth from the Asheville area to Cullowhee to take engineering classes.   

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