Western Carolina University will hold three commencement ceremonies over a two-day period – Friday and Saturday, May 8-9 – to recognize the academic achievements of what is expected to be the university’s fourth-straight record spring graduating class.

Recently, I had the chance to visit Washington, DC along with Junior Miss Cherokee Jade Ledford and Miss Cherokee Taylor Wilnoty.

I have had a very busy month representing the Eastern Band as your 2104 Miss Cherokee and being your proud ambassador once again in Washington, DC.

Forty Southwestern Community College students were inducted into the National Technical Honor Society on Monday, April 6, on SCC’s Jackson Campus including EBCI tribal Gwynneth Bird of Cherokee.

Cherokee Elementary School recently celebrated Cultural Heritage Week.

Although Devyn Smith grew up less than an hour from UNC Asheville, he didn’t know a single person on campus when he arrived as a freshman.

The first meeting of the Cherokee Indian Fair Committee was held Monday, April 13 at 5:30 pm.

A new scholarship fund at Western Carolina University being established by the dean of the Kimmel School of Construction Management and Technology and his wife is designed to provide financial support to students majoring in science, technology, engineering or mathematics.