Prospective students can learn about the 100 courses Western Carolina University will offer in Asheville during the upcoming spring semester as the university holds an information session and registration from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 8.
Scott Higgins, dean of the Graduate School and Research at Western Carolina University, is the new president of the North Carolina Conference of Graduate Schools.
A book published this week by The Princeton Review ranks Western Carolina University’s College of Business among the nation’s best schools at which to earn a master’s degree in business administration, with WCU’s program earning a top-four spot among schools offering the greatest opportunity for women and receiving high marks for small class sizes.
Graduates of WCU's master’s degree program in school administration have once again scored high marks on a national test that indicates how well prepared they are to fill the top leadership positions in North Carolina public schools.
Susan Foringer-Burk is the first recipient of a new $1,500 scholarship for graduate students studying communication sciences and disorders at WCU awarded through a fund established by Margie Gibbs Motsinger, a Western alumna and the founder of a Greensboro-based communication and rehabilitative therapy clinic.
Julia Ann Barnes, associate professor of mathematics and computer science at WCU, has been named one of the best teachers in the University of North Carolina system, earning praise for using creative ways to help her students understand difficult mathematical concepts.
WCU has chosen Microsoft’s Windows Live as its new e-mail system for WCU students. Once implemented, Windows Live will replace current server-based e-mail accounts, becoming students’ official university-business account system.
A national psychological association recently honored WCU clinical psychology graduate student Lauren Drerup for her submitted work to a conference for psychopathology research.
