- In 2013, the Walker College became a founding member of the Appalachian Research in Business Symposium.
- In 2016, the Walker College of Business would name a recently renovated Graduate Programs and Research Suite in Peacock Hall in honor of alumnus and supporter Dr. Lee Barnes. The Lee Barnes Graduate Programs and Research Suite naming recognized Barnes, an Appalachian Board of Trustee member, for having supported the college through a large research grant program, as well as having funded a professorship and scholarships.
- During this time, Walker College of Business faculty produced and disseminated extensive research through both academic and professional communities, with more than 700 individual intellectual contributions in basic discovery research, more than 400 contributions in applied or integrative research and 240 contributions in teaching and learning research in a 5-year period.
- By 2019, Appalachian State University's Department of Economics will be ranked in the top five percent overall and the top five percent worldwide for experimental, cognitive and behavioral, and environmental economics.
