of particular interest to current and prospective entrepreneurship students and their families.
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.
Students and faculty at WCU will assist the town of Canton in its ongoing efforts to fully recover from the devastating floods of 2004, thanks to a grant from a national community-based research program.
The board of trustees at WCU has endorsed the creation of a center to spur new ideas for business ventures in Western North Carolina and renamed an existing center to better reflect its increasing role in using the university’s high-tech resources to provide technical assistance to regional business and industry.