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2023: App State Hickory Campus

  • App State established a new campus to expand public higher education access and outreach in the Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton Metro Area. The Hickory campus, housed in the former Corning Optical Communications building, located at 800 17th St. NW in Hickory, opened to students on Aug.

2021: Sustainable solutions and cybersecurity in the digital era

  • The college has bestowed the Triple E Award (also known as Green E) since 2016, when it was established to recognize individuals for outstanding accomplishments in sustainable business at Appalachian State University.

2022: First-generation faculty and students

  • To help retain first-generation students, the college created a Business for Good Residential Learning Community (RLC) in 2022. Through this community, funded by the Martha Guy Endowment, first-generation students who plan to major in business share coursework and live together in a residence hall, exploring how businesses can address social, environmental, and economic problems to build a better world.
  • Also in 2022, Peacock Hall’s Accounting Suite was named for former Dean Randal K.

2024: A growing Peacock Hall and building leaders in North Carolina

  • With leadership from Finance Professor Harry Davis, the NC School of Banking moves its headquarters to App State to foster excellence in banking education. The school has operated since 1936 and was most recently stationed in the state’s Triangle region.
  • In the early 2020s, App State received $40 million in legislative funding support for a Peacock Hall addition project, marking the first large-scale refresh of business learning spaces in more than 30 years.

Portugal - Martha Guy Business for Good Fellows - ENT 3600

The program in Lisbon, Portugal, for the Martha Guy Business for Good Fellows, aims to align with the Walker College of Business's mission of preparing and inspiring students to be ethical, innovative, and engaged business leaders. This trip offers a unique, hands-on learning experience through volunteering projects in forest conservation and upcycling, directly contributing to global sustainability and ethical business practices.

Scotland - Critical Infrastructure & Risk Assessment in Scotland - BUS 4055/MBA 5020

This immersive program explores critical infrastructure risk, resilience, and sustainability with a special focus on Scotland. A unique international learning journey takes students to the areas around Inverness, St Andrews, and Aberdeen for visits to power plants, dams, wind farms, and energy companies. These meetings are centered on the unique geographical and natural resource challenges Scotland faces in consistently and sustainably meeting the utility needs of not only Scotland but the United Kingdom more broadly.

Finland & Estonia - The Future is now - BUS 4045/MBA 5020

Fly into Helsinki, Finland, to learn about the long European trading history since medieval times and explore the beautiful modern city. Indulge in a sauna or a spa before taking a stunning ferry ride across the Baltic Sea to Tallinn, Estonia. There, you’ll spend a week getting to know and collaborating with local college students in the beautifully preserved medieval capital of Tallinn, Estonia, at the Estonian Business School (EBS).

UK - London International Insurance Markets - FIN 4800

Travel to London is the experiential portion of the spring semester course, FIN 4800 International Insurance Markets. This course will analyze the transfer of risk from businesses operating in this country, through the insurance market mechanism, to ultimate risk bearers abroad. The overriding design of the course is to follow the insurance transaction from main street U.S.A. through the standard markets, surplus lines markets, and reinsurance markets. London is home to many of the world's largest insurers and reinsurers.