On Christmas 2010, snow fell steadily for three days and left a foot on the ground before the clouds cleared.

I’m starting this campus update on the first day of semester break (Saturday), after students have made it home and begun recovering from a busy semester. As I walked from home to office this morning, I again realized how still this place becomes during breaks. A few days of relative quiet are fine, but all of us living on campus prefer the buzz of activity when students return. In the meantime, here are some reflections on the semester just over and the one ahead.

As you may or may not know, our team of horses has not been working this semester. Kate and Jenny, both Belgian mares, have been laying low since around July. The girls are reaching retirement age, and as with all horses, they are more susceptible to injury as they age.

Pauline and Robert Ware of Cheyenne have left Warren Wilson bequests of nearly $1 million.

In November admission counselor Katie Green was a guest on Higher Education Today, a show which connects viewers to contemporary issues, people, and institutions involved in the business of higher education.

Practice By Ellen Bryant Voight To weep unbidden, to wake at night in order to weep, to wait for the whisker on the face of the clock to twitch again, moving the dumb day forward— is this merely practice? Some believe in heaven, some in rest.  We’ll float, you said.  Afterward we’ll float between two [...]

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If you’re considering study abroad or taking time off from the College for personal reasons but plan to return, talk to the registrar about taking a Leave of Absence (LOA).

WWC senior Chloe Stuber has received a statewide award from the North Carolina Campus Compact.

Student engagement and innovation are key to our climate action work.