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Â鶹¹ÙÍø celebrates Homecoming 2026, Oct. 16–17

Â鶹¹ÙÍø welcomes alumni and friends back to campus Oct. 16–17 for Homecoming 2026, featuring milestone reunions, favorite traditions, the Eastside Commons groundbreaking and Bears football.
Gray Stone passes a plate to a student on the cafeteria serving line
At home in hospitality: Gray Stone ’21 returns to Â鶹¹ÙÍø

New director of food service Gray Stone ’21 returns to Â鶹¹ÙÍø focused on providing a dining experience that responds to student needs and makes campus feel like home.
2026 Aerobears rocket team, 8 members, at IREC with their rocket
We do big things: AeroBears prepare for a new season

After a successful 2026 launch season, Â鶹¹ÙÍø’s rocket team is building toward a new competition — and aiming even higher in 2027.
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Bears Engage explores freedom and responsibility in America at 250

Bears Engage brings music, theater, scholarship and conversation together as Â鶹¹ÙÍø marks America’s 250th anniversary and considers where we'll go in the years ahead.
Mike Hogewood courtside with microphone
Helping the next Bear on the trail: scholarship honors Mike Hogewood ’76

A new scholarship honoring regional sportscaster Mike Hogewood ’76 extends his legacy of opportunity, helping future Bears pursue the possibilities that shaped his own life.
Loury Floyd
Loury Floyd, Ph.D., receives statewide award for teacher education

Loury Ollison Floyd, Ph.D., associate provost for faculty affairs, assessment and accreditation, received the 2026 NCACTE Outstanding Contributions to Teacher Education Award on September 23.
Cover of Emotionall Sober and Unimaginably Good and Megan DeMatteo
Back to the Well: A Writing Life Comes Full Circle

After a decade building a professional writing career, Megan DeMatteo returns to Â鶹¹ÙÍø with her first published book and a new goal: fiction.
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Â鶹¹ÙÍø ranked #1 private regional university in Western North Carolina

Â鶹¹ÙÍø ranks #1 among private universities in Western North Carolina and appears among the South’s Top 25 in the 2027 U.S. News Best Colleges rankings.
Members of two sororities pose for a photo in front of the graffiti wall
Â鶹¹ÙÍø plans new home for Greek Life

A new campus home for fraternities and sororities will provide a dedicated space for connection, leadership and community as Greek Life participation continues to grow.

Andrew McCarthy leans on a podium with the Â鶹¹ÙÍø seal on front
Andrew McCarthy on nostalgia, friendship and showing up

Opening the 2026–27 season of the Visiting Writers Series, McCarthy talked about friends, writing, travel and the strange but beautiful afterlife of teen stardom.
Rendering of Eastside Commons exterior
Â鶹¹ÙÍø announces new residence hall, Eastside Commons

Construction will begin in September 2026 on the new living-learning community for first-year students.
Pastor Vern, framed by congregation, reads during chapel service
Five questions with Pastor Vern

Interim university pastor Vern Kinard, M.Div. ’18, talks about finding his way back to Â鶹¹ÙÍø, creating a place of belonging, and the connections between music, faith and community.