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A Learning Environment Biodiversity of WNC Mountains Offers Western 2006 Fall THE MAGAZINE O F W E S T ERN CAROLINA UNIVERSI T Y Endless Research Opportunities Biodiversity ofWNC MountainsOffers A LearningEnvironment Tackling the Tube Catamount fans across the Southeast who can’t make it to the Saturday, Sept. 23, football game at Furman or to the Homecoming showdown with Chattanooga still can have front row seats. Both games are scheduled to be broadcast by ComCast/Charter Sports Southeast (CSS) for cable subscribers in 12 states —Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. WLOS/WYMA of Asheville, which is donating the uplink and satellite time for the WCU-Furman game, will carry a replay on Sunday, Sept. 24, at 2 p.m. Negotiations also are under way to televise the annual Battle for the Old Mountain Jug when Appalachian State returns to Cullowhee on Nov. 11. For updates on the televised games or a complete fall athletics schedule, visit catamountsports.com. Western THE MAGAZINE OF WES T ERN CAROLINA UNIVERSI T Y Fall 2006 Volume 10, No. 3 Cover Story Western Carolina University Magazine, formerly known as Our Purple and Gold, is produced by the Office of Outdoors Odyssey Public Relations in the Division of Advancement and WNC Mountains Take External Affairs for alumni, faculty, staff, friends and 8 students of Western Carolina University. Students Above and Beyond (on the cover) Kathy Mathews, assistant professor of biology, Chancellor John W. Bardo points out aspects of rivercane to Western students Sharhonda Bell, Katie McDowell and Adam Griffith (from Vice Chancellor Clifton B. Metcalf left to right). Their measurements and observations will be Advancement and used to help restore the plant, which, though native to External Affairs the region, has struggled for survival in the face of development and agricultural planting. Associate Vice Chancellor Leila Tvedt Public Relations Managing Editor Bill Studenc Features Associate Editor Teresa Killian 4 Millennial Campus Art Director Rubae Sander Campus of Future Embraces Innovation, Service to WNC Chief Photographer Mark Haskett ’87 Contributing Writers Mike Cawood Randall Holcombe 14 Serving Citizens Daniel Hooker ’01 Public Sector Careers John Kenyon Attract WCU Alums Jim Rowell ’72 Steve White ’67 Dianne Yount ’79 Contributing Designers John Balentine 19 Homecoming Attraction Loretta Adams ’80 Catamounts Come Back to Cullowhee Contributing Photographer Ashley T. Evans Chris Edmonds Special thanks to: 24 Sporting Goods The U.S. Marine Corps, Robins Air Force Base, The Sylva Herald, the Asheville Citizen-Times, Five Named to Hall of Fame, Clay County Progress, DownStreamPhoto.com Grads Grab Gridiron Glory, and the Charlotte Bobcats for their contributions Softball Superstars to this issue. Please send story ideas and suggestions to: Western Carolina University Magazine 32 Courageous Catamounts Suite 420, H.F. Robinson Building Freedom Fighters Earn Western Carolina University Cullowhee, NC 28723 Bronze Stars or via e-mail: [email protected]. Go to the Western Carolina University Alumni Association Web site (alumni.wcu.edu) to add a class note, update your information, or catch up on campus events. 34 News and Notes Catch Up with Classmates Postmaster: Send address changes to: Office of Alumni Affairs, Suite 440, H.F. Robinson Building Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723. The Evolution of an Idea Millennial Initiative Looks to the Future While Maintaining the Vision of WCU’s Founders By BILL STUDENC When Robert Lee Madison assembled 18 students in specialty senior housing or a company that supplies products August of 1889 in the one-room schoolhouse that was the related to health and aging. forerunner of Western Carolina University, he did so with a vision of what he called “the Cullowhee Idea”—the concept of an educational institution with an influence ranging far “Western Carolina University’s Millennial Initiative beyond the small mountain community where it was located. As capitalizes on Western’s research and entrepreneurial described by history professors Curtis Wood and Tyler Blethen in “A Mountain Heritage: The Illustrated History of Western strengths to promote economic development and Carolina University,” Madison came to the Cullowhee Valley to prepare the region’s workforce for the transformed launch a school at the behest of people characterized by a stead- economy of the new millennium.” fast “spirit of progress, ambition and change for themselves and — N.C. Gov. Michael Easley their children.” The vision and the spirit of Madison and WCU’s found- ers are now taking a giant leap into the future as the university “These neighborhoods will become home to educational implements the Millennial Initiative, which Chancellor John and outreach programs that are co-located to improve the W. Bardo calls “a defining moment in university history.” The education of our students while also supporting the regional Millennial Initiative calls for the university to develop close economy,” said Paul Evans MS ’72, director of WCU’s Insti- partnerships with business, industry and government in tute for the Economy and the Future, which will oversee the a way that simultaneously increases hands-on educational Millennial Initiative (see related story). “Students not only learn opportunities for students, allows professors to conduct in the classroom, but also can effectively apply that learning high-tech research and plays a role in regional economic to real problems as they work with public and private partners development. WCU will build multiple-use neighborhoods located in the very neighborhoods where those students are that cluster academic buildings, research facilities, business, living and learning.” industry and housing on portions of the existing campus and N.C. Gov. Michael Easley said the ability to produce on 344 acres recently acquired across N.C. Highway 107. In innovative technologies and a skilled, knowledgeable those on-campus neighborhoods, partners from the university, workforce is an important factor to the state’s future economic private industry and government will come together, share success. “Western Carolina University’s Millennial Initiative resources from manpower to knowledge and conduct capitalizes on Western’s research and entrepreneurial strengths research into scientific and technological innovations that have to promote economic development and prepare the commercial applications. region’s workforce for the transformed economy of the new University officials say Western’s plan is not a conventional millennium,” he said. “research park” or “business incubator” approach in which Propelling the Millennial Initiative forward is the North research and business activities occur in a separate district, but Carolina Board of Governors endorsement this spring of the is a new arrangement in which those activities actually will be in- university’s plans to create a “knowledge enterprise zone.” The serted into the existing, traditional campus to create integrated endorsement capped a process that began six years ago when knowledge communities. A mixed-use neighborhood centered the General Assembly approved Millennial Campus legislation on retirement, aging and health, for instance, would not only based on a measure originally written by WCU staff. The leg- have classroom space for students but might also have nearby a islation makes it possible for UNC institutions to seek public- private health care provider who works with older populations, private partnerships to improve the academic experience for THE MAGAZINE OF WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY FALL 2006 Senior Policy Fellows Helping Chart Path for Economic Future Leading the way in planning Western’s Millennial Initiative is the university’s think tank and regional economic development arm, guided by a distinguished group of scholars, military leaders, government officials and business professionals who are lending their expertise to help accomplish the mission. students and allow universities to apply their intellectual re- In their roles as senior policy fellows with WCU’s sources—their faculty, students and staff—to foster economic Institute for the Economy and the Future, they are assisting development to benefit their respective regions and the state. the university in crafting a long-range plan for regional “We are pleased that the Board of Governors has approved our growth in Western North Carolina and for pursuing business request, which follows an exhaustive process involving the opportunities for its Millennial Initiative (see related story). campus, the local community and the entire Western North The fellows, who joined the university earlier this year, also Carolina region,” Bardo said. are assisting in developing policy studies, survey research Now, the Millennial Initiative is coming to life as the uni- and public forums on regional economic development issues. versity updates its master plan, which guides construction and Among the fellows’ other projects, for example, is a recent development (see related story). Already, representatives of survey of America’s state-level homeland security officials that several private companies, including a business investigating revealed ongoing concerns about national security and federal environmentally friendly methods of pest control, a wireless disaster preparedness. technology company interested in new product development, The senior policy fellows are Alphonse Buccino, a technology and a secure
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