Coulter Faculty Commons
Your Partner in Teaching & LearningThe Coulter Faculty Commons (CFC) advances excellence in teaching, learning, and scholarship by partnering with the Western Carolina University community through collaboration, creation, and celebration.
We partner with all instructors, staff who teach, and graduate student assistants.
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Teaching @WCU: A CFC Blog
SoTL Scholar Feature – WCU Faculty Share Work
Pictured left to right: Jessica Casimir, Chad Halllyburton, April Tallant, Barbara Arnold at the 2026 SoTL Commons Conference in Savannah, GA.The SoTL Scholar Feature highlights the work of WCU faculty participating in the SoTL (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning)...
Dr. Katie Searles to Speak at WCU
The Haire Institute for Public Policy is pleased to sponsor a guest speaker on April 6, 2026. Dr. Katie Searles, Olin Johnson Professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina, will facilitate events throughout the day, including a session...
The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good: A Call for an Early Start in Undergraduate Research
By CFC Faculty Fellow Chad Hallyburton, Environmental Health Sciences I absolutely hated high school. As an undergraduate student, I spent some semesters just “phoning it in.” But when I arrived at WCU as a graduate student, the creativity and independence of...