Whee Life: Mountain Heritage Days recap

This year, Mountain Heritage Day expanded into Days with a week of fun events for students and community members. Hear more about events that took place during the week including the Hurricane Helene anniversary and Rooted in the Mountains symposium. Mountain Heritage Days co-director Amber Albert also gives us a peak as to what next […]

Whee Life: Remembering Hurricane Helene one year after

Your weekly news magazine on the life in the Whee is back. We start the season with an episode dedicated to the one year anniversary from Hurricane Helene. Hear from community members as they look back on Hurricane Helene, what they experienced, how they responded, and how Western North Carolina stood together in the face […]

That’s Politics: Teaching DEI concepts (Part II)

This episode continues my breakdown of DEI. I talk about teaching DEI concepts in college classes and the potential limitations that may be in the works.  I talk with Carolina Pendry, an adjunct sociology professor at WCU, to get a deeper understanding of an instructor’s perspective of teaching touchy subjects.’ To view sources visit the […]

WheeLife Eps. 9: Students and mental health; science stories we worked on this semester

That’s Politics: A general breakdown of DEI (Part I)

DEI is a very complex topic. This is my general breakdown of the topic and the state of current policies and partisan perspectives. I provide the liberal perspective and I interviewed Adam Harp, one of my former classmates, to provide the conservative perspective. This is part one in a series. To listen on other platforms:

Whee Life Eps. 8: Arts & Entertainment edition