We the Kings will perform in concert with special guest Ryan Cabrera at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 17, in the A.K. Hinds University Center Grandroom on the campus of Western Carolina University. The concert is sponsored by WCU’s Last Minute Productions, a student-run entertainment and activity planning organization at WCU. […]

(Editor’s Note: The following story will be updated as Western Carolinian staff continue to look into the investigation of this case and reach out to those involved for an interview.) UPDATE: Robert Ford was found not guilty on Tuesday of assault on a female. The judge in the case stated that […]

You might think that three Western Carolina students would never be able to band together and create their own feature film, but it has recently become the goal of three Motion Picture and Television Production seniors who are determined to create a film that will “wow” WCU and prove to […]

The Graduate Record Exam will be revised in August 2011 to challenge students who wish to continue their academic career as graduate students. In August, the test will be given differently, will have a different scoring method, and will have new questions in two sections. According to Scott Higgins, Dean […]

Volunteers are being sought to help relocate rivercane from the Western Carolina University area to a site near Cherokee as part of the university’s Rivercane Restoration Project. The work to transplant the rivercane will take place in March and April as volunteers pitch in to move the plants from locations […]

A high school student recently dissed his teacher on his Facebook status and got away with it thanks to his First Amendment rights. According to the Los Angeles Times, when Donny Dunlap from California called out his biology teacher for giving too much homework on the favored networking website Facebook, […]

N.C. Republican legislators are beginning to push for a law that could help pay for some North Carolina students to attend private or home schools beginning from kindergarten and going through the 12th grade. Paul Stam, of Apex, N.C., the G.O.P. leader in the state House, is behind the proposal, […]

Mark A. Stoffan has joined Hunter Library as head of digital, access, and technology services, and Peter Johnson is the new head of access services. Stoffan comes to WCU from The Florida State University in Tallahassee, where he was associate director for library technology at Strozier Library for the past […]