by Laura Overby | Sep 7, 2026 | Service Learning, Student Features
This summer, The Solutions Journalism Network selected The Western Carolinian and the Western Carolina Journalist to be one of the eight college media organizations to participate in this year’s Student Media Challenge reporting project and to receive a $7,500 grant...
by Laura Overby | Aug 31, 2026 | Faculty Focus, Service Learning
Professors of Communication Vincent Russell, Grace Cheshire, and Gabriel Wisnewski-Parks will bring public deliberation to WCU through the new Deliberative Student Fellowship, offered through the Deliberative Citizenship Network (DCN). The DCN is a new national...
by Mykala Anderson | Oct 30, 2024 | Service Learning, Student Features
A senior communication student, Ashley Elliott organized crisis care packages for children in the surrounding Western North Carolina communities after Hurricane Helene’s destruction. “While collecting supplies for immediate needs like food and water were...
by Mykala Anderson | Mar 26, 2024 | Service Learning
COMM 355, TV Production II, hosted a live broadcast at Smoky Mountain High School, SMHS, on February 28. The broadcast featured live music from a collaboration between a professional jazz quartet, members from the Western Carolina University band, as well as students...
by wcuadmin | Apr 13, 2019 | News, Service Learning
Western Carolina University communication students are partnering with a regional health coalition and a new digital communications agency to raise awareness about the dangers of vaping for college students. Originally Published on news.wcu.edu on April 11, 2019. Read...
