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Guignet, fellow researchers earn 2025 Chancellor’s Innovation Scholars Program grant
Aug 29, 2025

BOONE, N.C. — Three teams of Appalachian State University faculty members have been selected as awardees of this year’s Chancellor’s...

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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 through...

Appalachian announces spring semester dean’s and chancellor’s lists
May 25, 2017

Seven hundred and ninety one Walker College of Business undergraduate students earned dean's list and chancellor's list honors...

MBA Alumni Highlight: Shannon Creighton
May 23, 2017

Shannon Creighton '04, '12 is the MBA director at Limestone College, a private four-year, coeducational liberal...

Members of the Walker College of Business leadership team in Peacock Hall (Photo by Sabrina Cheves)

May 2017 Dean's Update
May 23, 2017

With the exception of welcome improvements being made in our classrooms (most notably new carpet and paint), Peacock Hall is relatively quiet...

2015-16 First Destination Rate Data - Walker College of Business, Appalachian State University

Ninety percent of Walker College graduates employed or continuing education six months after commencement
May 22, 2017

Ninety percent of Walker College of Business Class of 2016 graduates have successfully reached their first destination, according to...

Winning students pictured with Entrepreneurship Director Erich Schlenker (left) at Appalachian's 2017 Big IDEA Pitch Competition

2017 student winners of business idea pitch competition announced
May 22, 2017

Atlanta native Ryan Gillespie earned the top spot and $1,000 at the 2017 Big IDEA Competition for his made-in-America electric...

Appointments to Appalachian’s Board of Trustees announced

Appointments to Appalachian’s Board of Trustees announced
May 19, 2017

ASU NEWS—The UNC Board of Governors has made one new...

Young alumni featured in Bermuda's Royal Gazette

Young alumni featured in Bermuda's Royal Gazette
May 19, 2017

A group of Appalachian State University young alumni have been featured online by The Royal Gazette,...

 Dylan Galloway of Madison earned both an MBA and an MBA from Appalachian in 2017

Business students featured during the Walker College's May 13 commencement ceremony
May 17, 2017

According to a recent post by ASU NEWS, Appalachian State...