Ben Coulter’s father, Myron, served as chancellor of Western Carolina University in the late 1980s and early 90s. Today, the younger Coulter is the North Carolina chancellor of a school with a name just one word away — Western Governors University.
Western Governors University is an online, private, nonprofit school founded in 1997 with nearly 200,000 students enrolled across all 50 states. Though it’s headquartered in Salt Lake City, the school has now opened its second-largest office — in Raleigh.
A new Raleigh campus
On Tuesday, WGU held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for the new Raleigh office. The sleek space spans nearly 50,000 square feet across the sixth and seventh floors of an office building in the Crabtree Valley neighborhood.
As of its opening, the office is home to 105 administrative staff. The university plans to triple that number in the next five years…