Coinciding with National Weatherization Day, Asheville Mayor Terry Bellamy proclaimed Oct. 30, 2008, to be INSULATE! Day in the City of Asheville.

USABookNews.com has selected a book by Tawan Perry, assistant dean of student life at Warren Wilson College, as the winner in the “College Guides” category of the National Best Books 2008 Awards.

Led by senior Matthew Williams, Warren Wilson College’s mountain bike team earned the bronze medal in Division II of the Collegiate National Mountain Bike Championships, held this past weekend at Lees-McRae College in Banner Elk, NC.

With the support of the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, Warren Wilson College has launched a three-year program initiative titled "Advancing Environmental Literacy." Faculty participating in this program will develop three sets of theme-based, multidisciplinary, team-taught courses focused on sustainability to be used a pilot courses to guide faculty at other colleges and universities in developing courses of their own.

Quality Forward, the longtime Keep America Beautiful affiliate in Asheville and Buncombe County, has presented its Hall of Fame Award 2008 to the Environmental Leadership Center of Warren Wilson College.

Warren Wilson Theatre, in its first production of the 2008-2009 “Season of Change,” presents “You Can’t Take It with You.”

This September report to campus includes a "state-of-the-college" update I presented to Staff Forum yesterday afternoon, focused mainly on the economy. The complete text is included below. In addition, I want to thank all of you who participated in the fabulous Homecoming, reunion, and family events this past weekend. And finally, my congratulations to Jessica Wooten and the Recycling Crew for our being designated the nation’s "leading school for waste reduction and recycling" by the National Wildlife Federation.

Sandy Pfeiffer

Warren Wilson College has piled up many national and regional accolades since July 2008.

Diane Gilliam, winner of the 2008 Chaffin Award for Appalachian Literature, will deliver Warren Wilson’s annual Harwood-Cole Memorial Lecture Nov. 8.

Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Madeleine Blais, a journalism professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, will give a public reading Oct. 28 at WWC.