A $1 million gift from the BB&T Foundation will enable the WCU College of Business to develop a program that will focus on the study of leadership, ethics and capitalism.
The second annual Jingle Bell 5-K race, sponsored by Western Carolina University’s Sport Management Association and held on the WCU campus Tuesday, Nov. 4, raised more than $1,100, organizers said.
Chancellor John W. Bardo convened a town hall meeting Tuesday, Nov. 11, to discuss the impact of the economic downturn on the state of North Carolina and Western Carolina University.
WCU’s grants office announced more than $325,000 in funding recently awarded to faculty and staff.
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.
Western Carolina University paid tribute Saturday, Oct. 4, to five highly distinguished alumni – a national award-winning after-school programs director, a recently appointed college vice president, an international business leader for Pfizer Inc., and a couple who are longtime supporters of WCU.
Ronald A. Johnson, dean of the College of Business at Western Carolina University, will lead a team of business faculty members in a presentation about the current national economic crisis from 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 7, in the Grandroom of the A.K. Hinds University Center.
Students in the hospitality and tourism program at Western Carolina University are a force behind the town of Dillsboro’s inaugural Appalachian Growers’ Fair, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 19, at the Monteith Farmstead.
Letters are going out to 555 graduates of WCU’s College of Business to inform them that personal information stored on a server used by the College of Business may have been compromised. There is no reason to believe the information has been used for unauthorized or illegal purposes.
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