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Entrepreneurship Master's Program Takes Second Place in National Competition Less than a year after its inception, the masters degree program in entrepreneurship at Western Carolina University claimed second place in a recent national competition among business schools from across the United States. Western, home of the nations only masters degree program in entrepreneurship, finished second to Harvard University in the 2004 United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship National Model MBA Program Award competition, held Jan. 15-18 as part of the associations annual conference in Dallas. Representing Western at the competition were Jim and JoAnn Carland, the husband-and-wife team who are co-directors of Westerns undergraduate and graduate degree programs in entrepreneurship. We feel that its quite an accomplishment for our new masters degree program in entrepreneurship to finish second only to Harvard, with its 31 professors and $25 million endowment, said Leroy Kauffman, dean of the College of Business at Western. We came away with our heads held high, and proud of ourselves and our program, which is still in its infancy. The judges encouraged us to apply for the competition again next year. The University of North Carolina Board of Governors recently approved Westerns masters degree in entrepreneurship as an Internet-based program, enhancing the universitys existing residential degree program by also allowing it to be offered in an on-line format. By extending the reach of the masters degree program via the Internet, Western is leading the nation in the creation of entrepreneurial vision and entrepreneurial will, said Jim Carland. By will, we mean the perseverance required to actually create and grow a venture. The perseverance to succeed in the business world comes from self-confidence and knowledge, said JoAnn Carland. Our primary task as entrepreneurial educators is to impact the self confidence, as well as the creativity and the vision, of prospective and nascent entrepreneurs, she said. We dont think anything else has the economic development potential of small business creation. The entrepreneurship degree programs are designed to address a critical need across North Carolina for sustainable economic development through successful small business start-ups by developing students entrepreneurial abilities, one of the most frequently cited requirements for a successful career in business and for a healthy and robust economy. AUS. Small Business Administration study states that, between 1988 and 1993, companies with fewer than 500 employees created 1.8 million new jobs, while companies with more than 500 employees created only 100,000 new jobs. The agency also estimates that only 40 percent of new business ventures survive through the first five years, largely due to a lack of preparation by the entrepreneurs. Programs such as Westerns are designed to help provide those skills, Kauffman said. The mission of the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship is to advance knowledge and foster business development through entrepreneurship education and research. USASBE is regarded as the premier network for entrepreneurship educators at all student levels, for professional practitioners, for entrepreneurship researchers, and for government policy makers. For more information about the masters degree in entrepreneurship or other graduate study programs, contact Westerns Office of Research and Graduate Studies at (828) 227-7398 or (800) 369-9854. 34 we _news@email .wcu.edu WCU Unveils new Nursing Education Facilities at A-B Techs Enka Campus Feb. 17 Western Carolina University will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 17, for its nursing departments new headquarters in the Haynes Center on the Enka campus of Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College. Thanks to a grant of $250,800 from the Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust, Western has relocated its nursing education programs from the campus of the University of North Carolina- Asheville to roomier facilities in the former BASF plant, donated to A-B Tech in October 2000. The move to 10,000 square feet of office, laboratory and classroom space in Enka will enable the nursing program to expand in an effort to address an acute shortage of qualified nurses in Western North Carolina - and across the state and nation, said Vincent Hall, head of Westerns department of nursing. Western Carolina is the only state-supported university in Western North Carolina that provides baccalaureate and masters level nursing education. The department of nursing at Western was founded in 1969, and has a long history of preparing nurses for practice in a variety of health care settings across the state. The department awarded its 1,500th bachelors degree in nursing in May 2003 - a milestone reached 30 years after the first class graduated in 1973 and eight years after the 1,000th graduate crossed the stage in 1995. Graduates consistently post one of the top pass rates in North Carolina on professional licensure examinations. The department provides three types of educational programs - an undergraduate program leading to the bachelors degree in nursing; a Capstone program that enables nurses with two-year associate degrees or diplomas to complete their four-year degrees; and a graduate program that prepares nurses to become family nurse practitioners or nurse educators. The junior year of the BSN program is located on Westerns main campus in Cullowhee, with the remainder of the department and its programs housed in Asheville. Our faculty have earned a statewide reputation for providing a high-quality education, and the department was awarded the universitys Program of Excellence Award in 2000, Hall said. The grant from Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust has given us additional resources we need to provide the people of Western North Carolina with well-trained nurses and health care providers. The Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust was created in 1947 by the will of Mrs. William N. Reynolds of Winston-Salem. Three-fourths of the trusts grants are designated for use for health- related programs and services across North Carolina, and one-fourth for the poor and needy of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County. For more information about the ribbon-cutting ceremony and open house, contact Zeta Smith at (828) 227-3039. Mountain Fiddle Music, the Blues and African Drummin Mountain Folklore Series Continues with Three WCU Performances Mountain fiddle music, the blues and African drumming will be showcased as Western Carolina Universitys new mountain folklore series continues with three performances during upcoming weeks. - Amanda Wright, a recent graduate of Western, will discuss and demonstrate mountain fiddle styles Wednesday, Feb. 18. Wright, who spent last summer as an intern at the Blue Ridge Music Center in Galax, Va., is now working with the Albert Hash Memorial Band, a string band from Whitetop, Va. - Reggie Harris, a blues music scholar and one half of the Harris Brothers, a blues and roots duo from Lenoir, will discuss and demonstrate blues music styles Wednesday, Feb. 25. - Eric Mrozkowski, a Western graduate and band director at Smoky Mountain High School, and Barry Boyland, a professional drum maker, will discuss and demonstrate African drumming during a program Wednesday, March 3. All performances in the series begin at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of Westerns Mountain Heritage Center. The events are free and open to the public. The folklore series at Western is being sponsored by the universitys Division of Academic Affairs, Mountain Heritage Center, and ethnography laboratory in the department of anthropology and sociology, along with the Ethnography and Indian Affairs Branch in the Cultural Resource Division of the Southeast Regional Office of the National Park Service. Remaining performances in the series include: Wayne Erbson, banjo styles, March 24; and Phil Noblitt, interpretive specialist for the National Park Service, speaking on representations of Appalachian culture by the Park Service, April 7. For more information, contact Philip Ted Coyle at (828) 227-3900, or by e-mail at peoyle@weu.edu.

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The Western Carolinian is Western Carolina University's student-run newspaper. The paper was published as the Cullowhee Yodel from 1924 to 1931 before changing its name to The Western Carolinian in 1933.
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  - Date original: 2004-02
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  - Dimension: 14" x 11.5"
  - Pages: 28
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  - Jackson County (N.C.)
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