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MFA student named creative director for Center for Craft art installation
For Western Carolina University second-year Master of Fine Art student Jeannie Regan, being chosen as the creative director for the Center for Craft’s newest art installation is an opportunity made possible by faculty and peer support from the MFA program.
Longtime staff donor gives in honor of those who supported him as a WCU student
Phil Cauley, associate vice chancellor for undergraduate enrollment, first hit the Western Carolina University campus as a wide-eyed freshman in 1979 and, with the exception of a brief stint in the enrollment office of a Mississippi university in the late 1990s, never left.
Cultural immersion: WCU students return from year-long study abroad trips
Western Carolina University students Elliott Kerns and Marcus Ibarra recently had the opportunity of a lifetime to study overseas as recipients of the David L. Boren Scholarship.
Student finds passion for higher education, advocacy through leadership roles
When Estefany Gordillo-Rivas, a senior at Western Carolina University double majoring in cultural anthropology and political science, was deciding where she wanted to go to college, she knew she wanted to go somewhere that would give her a more personal experience with smaller class sizes.
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