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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...

Sam Formby Appalachian State University

Dr. Sam Formby talks about his new role as WCOB associate dean, and why students should study business at Appalachian
Sep 15, 2016

Beginning in the Fall 2016 semester, Dr. Sam Formby assumed a new role as associate dean for undergraduate programs and administration in...

Meet the firms series provides forum for accounting students to gain internships, employment opportunities
Sep 13, 2016

Appalachian State University's Department of Accounting recently hosted the annual Meet the Firms ...

Summer Institute for high school students visits Asheville's Collider

Summer Institute for high school students visits Asheville's Collider
Sep 9, 2016

Participants of the 2016 Martha Guy Summer Institute (MGSI) for future business leaders recently attended the Dixon...

Transportation Insight Center for Entrepreneurship and alumna entrepreneur featured in WNC Magazine

Transportation Insight Center for Entrepreneurship and alumna entrepreneur featured in WNC Magazine
Sep 8, 2016

Bailey Williams, an Appalachian State University alumna and entrepreneur who utilized the Transportation Insight Center for Entrepreneurship...

Jabari Myles

Research poster from computer information systems and economics student earns award during Energy Summit
Aug 31, 2016

Appalachian State University Senior Jabari Myles won second place in the student poster contest at the 2016 Appalachian...

Appalachian's Department of Economics ranks top in research faculties in the south

Appalachian's Department of Economics ranks top in research faculties in the south
Aug 29, 2016

Appalachian State University's Department of Economics has been ranked number one in research among regional...

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Appalachian community partners are doing ‘business for good’
Aug 29, 2016

Appstate News -- In introducing the community partners...