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Poster with images of last year's FEAST and event information: The event is scheduled for Wednesday, October 8, 2025, from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. on Sanford Mall at Appalachian State University's Boone campus.

Walker College to help sponsor Oct. 8 Community FEaST —Food Engagement and Story Telling
Sep 2, 2025

2025 Community FEaST
Wednesday, October 8, 2025, from 4:30-6:00 p.m.
Sanford Mall, Appalachian State University

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...

Finance alumnus, 1997 'App State Best,' promoted at Morgan Stanley

Finance alumnus, 1997 'App State Best,' promoted at Morgan Stanley
Feb 4, 2022

Appalachian State University alumnus Brett Berrier FIN '97...

Get tax help: App State free tax lab now open

Get tax help: App State free tax lab now open
Jan 28, 2022

The Department of Accounting operates a free tax help lab for Appalachian State University students, faculty and staff. The department is part of...

An Appalachian State University Bookstore customer makes a purchase using cash. On average, people spend 17% more with credit or debit cards than they do with cash, according to Bryan Bouboulis, director of App State’s financial literacy initiative — a program providing money management resources and personal consultations for students.

Money management do’s and don’ts
Jan 27, 2022

Financial literacy director Bryan Bouboulis shares advice for students

BOONE, N.C. — School supplies, rent, groceries, utilities — and pizza....

Sophomore, Kaela Sosa holding a yellow fin tuna she caught.

What a catch! Sophomore holds positions in both baseball analytics and pro-fishing
Jan 27, 2022

Kaela Sosa is a sophomore at Appalachian State University majoring in ...

Walker College faculty, staff earn nods as "most helpful" at App State

Walker College faculty, staff earn nods as "most helpful" at App State
Jan 26, 2022

Forty faculty and staff members in the Walker College of Business were named among the most helpful at Appalachian State...

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Accounting alumni newsletter posted
Jan 25, 2022

The Department of Accounting recently released its Winter 2022 newsletter, which features updates from Department Chair Pennie Bagley, MS in...

Appalachian State University’s Walker College of Business and its on-campus MBA program have been recognized among the best in the nation for 2022, according to The Princeton Review. Pictured is App State’s Kenneth E. Peacock Hall, home to Walker College.

App State’s ‘outstanding’ MBA program recognized by The Princeton Review
Jan 21, 2022

BOONE, N.C. — The Princeton Review has named App State’s Walker College of Business (WCOB) in its “...

Dr. Pennie Bagley, Dr. Ken Brackney

Bagley, Brackney named Peacock Accounting Professors
Jan 14, 2022

Two Appalachian State University professors have been appointed to the...

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Insurance professor on "Climate Change and the Outlook for Commercial Insurance"
Jan 12, 2022

David Marlett, Appalachian State University's IIANC Distinguished Professor of Insurance and Managing Director of the ...