Students and local community members protested on Saturday over the possibility of losing the 45-acre campus green space at UNC Asheville.

(The Center Square) – Enrollment has rebounded at North Carolina's three state universities in the mountainous western part of the state that was slammed by Hurricane Helene last fall.

Residents of Asheville and the rest of western North Carolina are still recovering ... Chris Cooper, a political science professor at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, N.C., said that ...

Appalachian State University, the University of North Carolina Asheville and Western Carolina University are all showing enrollment increases compared to last spring, the university system ...