WCU Balsam and Blue Ridge Residence halls are getting fresh coats of paint over new walls, newly installed carpets and extra heating in its entryways after a winter flooding issue. In December 2022, the majority of the student body left campus to go home or to go away and celebrate the winter break holidays. While […]
WCU incoming freshman and sophomores will live in latest and greatest dorms on campus
March 7, 2022 by
Story co-produced with Kaitlyn Akers Western Carolina University is returning to mandatory campus living for first and second-year students after allowing them to live off-campus for the past few years. The university has decided to crack down on policy 96 for the 2022-23 academic year because “success rates are higher for students who stay on […]
Residential living is accommodating over 4,000 students on campus
May 6, 2019 by
This story was produced and edited with Ashley Velazquez Since the founding of Western Carolina University in 1899, the campus has tremendously changed throughout the decades. What started as a Teaching Academy with barely 350 students, today has over 11,500 students that make-up Western Carolina University. This ranges from graduate, undergraduate, students on the Biltmore […]
Waka In the Whee
January 15, 2016 by
The sounds of Waka Flocka Flame yelling “POW, POW, POW, POW, POW!” could be heard as you walked around the concourse of the Ramsey Regional Activity Center to find your seat for the concert. Western Carolina University’s Campus Activities and Residential Living invited rapper, Waka Flocka Flame, to perform on Jan. 14. The Ramsey Center was […]
