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Supply chain management major Zoe Raj stands with Yosef after being named App State's 2026 Top of the Rock

Supply chain management major Zoe Raj named App State's 2026 Top of the Rock
Oct 16, 2026

Zoe Raj, a junior supply chain management major in the Walker College of Business, was featured in Appalachian State University Chancellor...
Walker College alumnus named Wilkes County manager

Mountaineer Moves: Walker College alumnus named Wilkes County manager
Oct 12, 2026

Appalachian State University alumnus Zachary Lovette '23 was recently named Wilkes County manager. Lovette is a finance and banking...
Members of App State’s Rho Chapter of Gamma Iota Sigma with App State alumnus Todd Campbell ’87, president and CEO of Builders Insurance Group, center, in App State’s Holmes Convocation Center on March 21, 2025, after his Boyles Lecture titled “Risk and Reward: The Transformative Power of YES in Business and Life.” Under Campbell’s leadership, Builders Insurance Group has made a $500,000 commitment to App State’s Walker College of Business, to support the modernization of the college’s Brantley Risk and Ins

Builders Insurance Group commits $500K to modernize App State Brantley Risk and Insurance Center
Oct 8, 2026

The center’s new location will foster stronger connections among students and industry partners
Allan Head, right, congratulates his successor, Jason Hensley.
Local Boone and Blowing Rock Chambers of Commerce will host the event

Harry Davis will deliver 2017 economic forecast during High Country Economic Kickoff Breakfast
Dec 12, 2016

At the base of one of the region’s top winter economic drivers, the Boone Area Chamber of Commerce and Blowing Rock Chamber of Commerce co-host...

Appalachian State University economics professor Dr. Mark Strazicich, left, and Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet L. Yellen, front row, right, with the Appalachian team that competed in the College Fed Challenge. In the Board of Governor’s meeting room prior to the competition are, from left, Ben Sullivan of Ashburn, Virginia; Matthew Hawks of Mount Airy; Jacqueline Hundley of Cary; Federico Pigozzi, Trieste, Italy; Anthony Santelle of Waxhaw; Bobby Weant of Salisbury; Jessica Robinson of Cary; and Roberto

Appalachian economics students place first in regional and district College Fed Challenge, earn honorable mention in finals
Dec 10, 2016

BOONE, N.C.—Economics students from the Walker College of Business at Appalachian State University received an honorable mention, as did...

Senior marketing major Kaitlynn Broderick leads Boone Chamber volunteer effort

Senior marketing major Kaitlynn Broderick leads Boone Chamber volunteer effort
Dec 8, 2016

Members of the Boone Area Chamber of Commerce community participated in the inaugural Committed to the Cause volunteer day, Wednesday, December...

Appalachian’s Walker College of Business featured in Princeton Review’s “Best 294 Business Schools: 2017 Edition”

Top sustainable business practices posters selected
Dec 6, 2016

Four student teams have been selected as best research project winners via faculty vote following a poster session on sustainable...

Dan Hsu, Appalachian State University

Management professor's research on entrepreneurship to be published in Organizational Research Methods
Dec 5, 2016

Research on entrepreneurship research methods from Walker College of Business Management Professor Dan Hsu has been accepted for...

Walker College alumnus and Appalachian trustee rings opening bell at NASDAQ

Appalachian included in Sierra magazine’s 2016 list of greenest colleges and universities
Nov 30, 2016

BOONE—Sierra magazine has released its 2016 list of “Cool Schools” and once again Appalachian State University is included among the nation’s 201...