Reed joined the faculty in Appalachian’s Department of Accounting in 2009, primarily teaching auditing, systems and financial accounting. Her research interests include audit performance, accountability and judgement.

She serves as faculty advisor for the Epsilon Kappa Chapter of Beta Alpha Psi, an international accounting honors organization and member of the American Accounting Association.

Reed earned her M.S. in accounting information systems from Eastern Michigan University and a Ph.D. in accounting from Virginia Tech University.

An endowment to fund the Boyles professorship was established in 1991 to honor the late North Carolina Treasurer Harlan Boyles, who was a member of the state government for more than 49 years. The endowment is funded by contributions from Boyles’ family, friends and colleagues.

Kowalczyk joined the Appalachian Department of Accounting faculty in 2005. She earned her MBA from the University of Texas at Austin and her Ph.D. in accounting from Texas A&M University.

She teaches and focuses her research on sustainability accounting and reporting and sustainable business at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and she is active in facilitating experiential learning opportunities for students to assist community partners in implementing more sustainable practices.

She is a member of the interdisciplinary Carbon Accounting Research Group at Appalachian, which focuses on issues associated with carbon offset accounting systems.

She was awarded the university’s Sustainability Academic Fellowship (2015–17) and is one of five recipients of the 2018 Appalachian Innovation Scholars Program (AISP) Award.

Dixon-Fowler joined Appalachian's Department of Management faculty in 2009 and serves as assistant department chair and entrepreneurship internship faculty supervisor. She has previously served as director for Appalachian’s Transportation Insight Center for Entrepreneurship.

She has taught a variety of entrepreneurship courses, and has developed and led study abroad programs to Vietnam, Cambodia and Panama and co-led trips to Spain and Malawi.

Dixon-Fowler’s research is primarily focused on sustainable business, social entrepreneurship, corporate social responsibility and firm governance. She earned a Ph.D. in business administration with an emphasis in corporate strategy from the University of Arkansas, where she also worked as part of the founding team at the Applied Sustainability Center.

Morgan joined the faculty in Appalachian’s Department of Economics in 2008. His research interests are in environmental and natural resource economics, agricultural economics and regional economics. Much of his research is policy-based, providing interested stakeholders and end users with empirical analyses for implementation in future policy decisions.

Morgan serves as director of the university’s CERPA, leading efforts to develop regional economic models to conduct economic impact analyses for local, state and regional public and private entities. He earned the Walker College’s 2016 Sywassink Award for Excellence in Research and holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Delaware.

Hunsinger has been appointed the L.M. Baker Jr. Partners in Excellence Professor for a second term. The Baker professorship is named for retired Wachovia CEO L.M. “Bud” Baker Jr.

Hunsinger joined the faculty in Appalachian’s Department of Computer Information Systems and Supply Chain Management in 2004. His research interests include IT certification and predicting behavioral intention. Hunsinger earned both his MBA and Ph.D. in information technology from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

He is the faculty advisor for Alpha Iota Mu and Appalachian’s Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP). He serves on multiple national boards, including as director for ISCAP (Information Systems and Computing Academic Professionals), past president of AITP-EDSIG, an education special interest group of AITP, and on the CompTIA AITP executive council.

He is senior editor of the Journal of Information Systems Applied Research, a member of the editorial review board for Information Systems Education Journal and has served as associate editor of three academic journals.

Hunsinger received the University of North Carolina Board of Governor’s Excellence in Teaching Award in 2013 — the highest teaching award in the UNC System. He was awarded Appalachian’s W.H. Plemmons Leadership Medallion in 2012 and received the Walker College’s Sywassink Award for Excellence for Teaching and Service in both 2011 and 2015.

Groothuis has been appointed the Beroth Oil–4 Brothers Food Stores Professor for a second term. The Beroth Oil–4 Brothers Food Stores Professorship was established in 1999 by Winston-Salem-based Beroth Oil and 4 Brothers Food Stores.

Groothuis has taught in Appalachian’s Department of Economics since 2002. His professional interests include sports economics, labor economics and environmental economics.

He has authored a number of articles focused on sports labor markets as well as environmental and resource economics. Groothuis earned both a master’s and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Kentucky.

Clark has been re-appointed the Duane D. Daggett Professorship in Management for a second term. The professorship is named for Duane Daggett, who served as an executive-in-residence in the Walker College of Business from 1986 until 2000. The professorship was established by Appalachian Board of Trustees member M. Lee Barnes Jr. and his wife, Christy L. Barnes.

In addition to teaching, Clark serves as the director of Appalachian’s hospitality and tourism management program. His research focuses on destination management, strategic planning and organizational marketing.

Clark has taught at Appalachian for 27 years, and, in 2013, earned the Walker College’s Sywassink Excellence in Service Award. Clark is the only individual to win four top tourism honors in North Carolina: the Barentine Special Achievement Award; the Charles J. Parker Tourism Excellence for Public Service Award presented by the North Carolina Travel Industry Association; the Tourism Excellence Award for an individual, also presented by the North Carolina Travel Industry Association; and the Winners Circle Award presented by Visit North Carolina.

Albinsson has been appointed as the John W. Guffey Jr. Professor for a second term. The Guffey Professorship is named for John W. Guffey Jr., retired chairman and CEO of Coltec Industries Inc., which merged with BF Goodrich in 1999. It was established in 2000 and was funded by John and Monique Guffey.

Before joining the Department of Marketing faculty at Appalachian in 2009, Albinsson worked in the tourism industry in Greece as well as banking and finance in her native Stockholm, Sweden. She earned her MBA and Ph.D. in business administration and marketing from New Mexico State University.

Her teaching interests include collaborative consumption, consumer activism, corporate social responsibility and advertising effectiveness.

In 2018, she earned the Walker College’s Sywassink Award for Excellence in Research, and in 2016, she received the China Studies Institute Zhi-Xing China Academic Leaders Fellowship, which is sponsored by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) and China Education Association for International Exchange (CEAIE).