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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...

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 its...

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

Walker College participates in fourth annual iBackAPP day
May 4, 2017

Members of the Walker College of Business leadership team posed for a photo in the Broyhill Commons of Peacock Hall on May 4, 2017, in...

Marketing Major Blake Poppen

Marketing major Blake Poppen shares how The Appalachian Fund helps create transformational, educational experiences
May 4, 2017

During the 2017 #iBackAPP Day, junior marketing major Blake Poppen was featured in a...

RMI major Abby Young offers financial advice to an Ashe County High School student during a financial literacy workshop offered by the Walker College of Business in partnership with SECU and Appalachian GearUp.

Business students offer financial literacy workshop to area high school students during second annual Walker College Service Day
May 3, 2017

State Employees Credit Union (SECU) personnel collaborated with Appalachian State University business students...

Phi Beta Lambda chapter will be here in Charlotte for the North Carolina Phi Beta Lambda State Leadership conference

Business students earn accolades at state leadership conference
Apr 28, 2017

Students from Appalachian State University attended the North Carolina Phi Beta Lambda State Leadership Conference, held in...

Business students honored by Cratis D. Williams School of Graduate Studies
Apr 25, 2017

The Cratis D. Williams School of Graduate Studies honored several Walker College of Business students during the ...

Business students honored during Walker College's Yadkin Bank Honors Convocation for outstanding academic performance
Apr 25, 2017

Thirty one business students were recognized Friday, April 21 during the 2017 Walker College of Business Honors Convocation,...

Hollie Brown, center, is one of four Walker College students who were honored during Appalachian's Leadership & Legacy Awards Ceremony

Business students earned top honors during 2017 Celebration of Leadership and Legacy Award Ceremony
Apr 25, 2017

Business students earned top honors during the 2017 Celebration of Leadership and Legacy Award Ceremony, hosted by Appalachian...

Appalachian business students prepared to travel to Ashe County High School and West Wilkes High School

Second annual Walker College Service Week will feature financial literacy workshop for local ninth graders
Apr 25, 2017

On Friday, April 28, approximately 50 business students from Appalachian State University will travel to regional high schools to share a...

Team from Appalachian places second in Spencer RIMS Risk Management Challenge
Apr 25, 2017

A team of students from Appalachian State University placed second in the 2017 Spencer-RIMS Risk Management Challenge, held...