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In the Media: Hospitality professor helps elevate rural tourism across North Carolina through UPLIFT Aug 20, 2025

UPLIFT, short for Understanding, Planning, Linking, Innovating, Financing, and Talent, is a nonprofit initiative that launched in 2021 to empower small tourism destinations thro

Faculty, Research, Economy, Front Page, Dept - MGT
App State students stand in front of the BAP banner, holding a plaque indicating their Platinum status

Accounting student organization earns first-ever "Platinum" recognition Aug 18, 2025

Appalachian State University’s Epsilon Kappa chapter of Beta Alpha Psi (BAP) has been recognized as a Platinum chapter for the first time in

Students, Dept - ACC, Front Page
Northwest North Carolina teachers develop coursework in personal finance, economics

Northwest North Carolina teachers develop coursework in personal finance, economics Aug 29, 2022

The Department of Finance, Banking and Insurance at Appalachian State University recently hosted 35 high school teachers from...

Faculty, Dept - FIN, Events, Service, Front Page
Fall 2022 term brings curricular changes, new faces, in App State’s Walker College of Business

Fall 2022 term brings curricular changes, new faces, in App State’s Walker College of Business Aug 20, 2022

The 2022-23 academic year brings new educational offerings to students in Appalachian State University’s Walker College of...

Front Page, Walker College News, Staff, Faculty, MSA, MSADA, Dept - ACC, Dept - CIS, Dept - MGT
The Walker College welcomes new business faculty for Fall 2022

The Walker College welcomes new business faculty for Fall 2022 Aug 19, 2022

The Walker College of Business at Appalachian State University announces the appointments of new faculty members to begin the Fall 2022 semester...

Faculty, Front Page, Walker College News, Dept - ACC, Dept - CIS, Dept - ECON, Dept - FIN, Dept - MGT, Dept - MKT SCM
'Startup Factory' series offers permanent competitive advantage for budding entrepreneurs

'Startup Factory' series offers permanent competitive advantage for budding entrepreneurs Aug 4, 2022

Appalachian State University's TI Center for Entrepreneurship (CFE) will once again host the Startup Factory -- a 10-part series that teaches and...

Events, Front Page, Dept - MGT, Centers - Center for Entrepreneurship
Members of the first Business For Good Residential Learning Center (RLC) are pictured in Peacock Hall’s Department of Management

App State business students live and learn in Business for Good community Aug 3, 2022

First-generation college students, in particular, face barriers in the early years of their higher education journeys.

Students, Sustainable Business, Walker College News, Front Page, Martha Guy Fellows
Dawn Medlin, center, with colleagues and mentees (from left) MSADA Director Jason Xiong, CIS Lecturer Laura Brewer, Doris Medlin, Dawn Medlin, Victoria Fowler, Dean Sandra Vannoy and Executive Director of Development Kyle Allen

Medlin, Sparks honored as college-level alumni Jul 22, 2022

Appalachian State University honored 11 of its alumni on Saturday, July 16 during the 2022 Alumni Association Awards Gala.

Faculty, Alumni, Front Page, Dept - CIS, MBA
A small cadre of Mountaineer families have fostered a legacy of consistent giving to Appalachian State University for approximately 50 years. Pictured, an aerial view of Founders Plaza, with statues of two of App State’s co-founders, B.B. Dougherty and Lillie Shull Dougherty, and Founders Bell Pavilion.

50 years of giving: App State families change lives, build legacies Jul 14, 2022

BOONE, N.C. — Appalachian State University alumni have often said that once you become part of the Mountaineer community, you never truly leave...

Alumni, Front Page, Faculty, Dept - ACC, Giving
Grace Waugh, a senior sustainable technology major from Chapel Hill, far left, and Summer Gee ’20, a graduate student from Wrightsville Beach, center, were part of a multidisciplinary team of App State undergraduate and graduate students that won second place in its division in the 2021–22 U.S. Department of Energy Solar District Cup. Waugh and Gee are pictured holding the trophy that the team received and with the team’s faculty adviser, Dr. Jaewon Oh...

App State students score 2nd-place divisional win in national solar competition Jul 12, 2022

The student team was recognized for its solar power system, designed to meet the renewable energy needs of a campus community Students, Competition, Front Page, Sustainable Business