ATTENTION: The Division of Information Technology will be discontinuing this service on January 5th, 2026. If you have a need for this type of service moving forward, please contact the IT Help Desk at 828-227-7487.

Welcome to PAWS.WCU.EDU

PAWS.WCU.EDU is a web server at Western Carolina University exclusively for faculty and staff. The purpose of this server is to provide employees with a web presence and a web application development environment.

Account Name

Your account name will be the same as your WCU mail username (DO NOT include the @email.wcu.edu.) and your password is the same as your email password.
Your web address (URL) on this server will be http://paws.wcu.edu/accountname/ (without the @email.wcu.edu).

For Example: Your username would be wcu\abjones and the url would be http://paws.wcu.edu/abjones1

Disk Quota

Account disk quotas are set to 500 Mbytes. Disk storage is a limited and finite resource, so we ask everyone to do periodic account housekeeping.

How Long Do Accounts Remain on Server?

Faculty/Staff Accounts will reside on the server as long as you are employed at the university. Once Faculty/Staff leave the university their account will be terminated.