For graduate and doctoral degrees, the ceremony starts on May 8 at 7 p.m. For honors and undergraduate degrees for the Arts and Sciences, Education and Allied Professions, and Fine and Performing Arts, the ceremony starts on May 9 at 10 a.m. For honors and undergraduate degrees for Business, Engineering and Technology, and Health and Human Sciences, the ceremony is May 9, starting at 3 p.m.

All graduation ceremonies will be held at the Liston B. Ramsey Regional Activity Center. 

For more information on graduation click here.

The podcast was produced by WCJ Editor-In-Chief and WWCU General Manager, Halle Stanley and WCJ News Editor, Sam Scroggins. They are both graduating. Congrats to all and …GO CATS!

For WCU geology professor Dr. Amy Fagan the Artemis missions are personal.

Technology has also helped many professionals through shortening projects and keeping patient records electronically.  

Hear all this and more in this week’s Whee Life news magazine.

One research study found that the percentage of adults who identify as Christian has declined since 2007. However, the same study showed that between 2014 and 2019 the decline stabilized.

Another study conducted from 2023-2024 found that 57% of people surveyed who were born in or before the 1940s are members of a religious congregation, whereas only 27% of people born in 2000 to 2006 are.

Sam Scroggins talked with  Dr. Jeffrey Vickery, a philosophy and religion professor at WCU and Pastor at Cullowhee Baptist Church, to talk about his experience as a pastor and professor.

She also talked to two students at WCU and their religious journeys.

Women’s history month traces its roots back to March 8, 1857, when women working in factories in New York City protested poor working conditions.

In 169 years since then women in U.S. have gain and lost recognition, power, rights…

Hear more on the history of women history month, what it means to women today and what women continue to fight for. We spoke with WCU students Jessica Acosta- Gaspar, Ximena Medina Mendez and Jannah Hightower to get their perspective. 

You will hear a about Southern women role in human rights fight and regulating history textbooks that is not flattering – something we don’t often hear about. Elizabeth McRae, an associate professor of History at WCU, focuses on race, gender and politics in the modern South.

McRae discussed the ways women have progressed equality while reinforcing systems of racial and social inequality.

Listen to hear more about key voter information, resources, early voting and dates. We have political science professor Dr. Chris Cooper on why primaries matter and can you buy the elections. The director of the Jackson County Board of Elections, Amanda Allen shares some important information and dates regarding voting. 

You will hear us every Friday at 4 p.m. until the end of the semester.

Tune in to hear news from your local area each week and if you miss us on the air you can listen to the episode below. Hear about wildfire season starting, the new DEI policy changes at WCU, Rep. Chuck Edwards and his recent town halls and construction on campus.