The Western Carolina University board of trustees welcomed Betty L. Siegel, president emeritus of Kennesaw State University in Georgia, as its newest member, filling a vacancy created when Bob Burgin, retired president and chief executive officer of Mission Hospitals in Asheville, stepped down as a trustee earlier this year.
W. Dee Nichols, past coordinator of a University of North Carolina at Charlotte doctoral program in literacy, recently joined Western Carolina University as head of the department of elementary and middle grades education.
Western Carolina University paid tribute Saturday, Oct. 4, to five highly distinguished alumni – a national award-winning after-school programs director, a recently appointed college vice president, an international business leader for Pfizer Inc., and a couple who are longtime supporters of WCU.
