Cyndi Margiotta, who recently began her job as an eighth-grade mathematics teacher at Canton Middle School in Haywood County, had been waiting for the first day of school for a long time.
With $825,000 in federal funding over the next three years, Western Carolina University is starting a new online master’s degree program to help nurses gain the necessary skills for management roles in health care facilities and to prepare them to work in today’s environment of increasing cultural diversity.
Western Carolina University’s online master’s degree program in project management has been given a No. 1 national ranking in quality and affordability by the distance education information clearinghouse GetEducated.com.
Western Carolina University graduate student Karen Dodson was just completing an ordinary assignment for an English class last spring when she transcribed and edited several Civil War-era letters, but her work soon will be published in a prestigious journal that focuses on the life and work of American literary icon Walt Whitman.
Graduates of WCU's master’s degree program in school administration have once again scored high marks on a national test that indicates how well prepared they are to fill the top leadership positions in North Carolina public schools.
Susan Foringer-Burk is the first recipient of a new $1,500 scholarship for graduate students studying communication sciences and disorders at WCU awarded through a fund established by Margie Gibbs Motsinger, a Western alumna and the founder of a Greensboro-based communication and rehabilitative therapy clinic.
Julia Ann Barnes, associate professor of mathematics and computer science at WCU, has been named one of the best teachers in the University of North Carolina system, earning praise for using creative ways to help her students understand difficult mathematical concepts.
WCU has chosen Microsoft’s Windows Live as its new e-mail system for WCU students. Once implemented, Windows Live will replace current server-based e-mail accounts, becoming students’ official university-business account system.
A national psychological association recently honored WCU clinical psychology graduate student Lauren Drerup for her submitted work to a conference for psychopathology research.
