In the Media

High school students recently participated in the Burke County Public Schools Construction Rodeo, an event organized in partnership with Western Piedmont Community College and the N.C. Center for Engineering Technology (NCCET). NCCET provides facilities for applied research in engineering related fields and serves as a conduit to a bachelor’s degree. NCCET’s Construction Management program is delivered by Appalachian State University.

The University of North Carolina Board of Governors has selected outstanding University faculty members to receive the 2018 Awards for Excellence in Teaching. The 17 recipients, who represent all 16 of North Carolina’s public universities as well as the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, were nominated by special committees based on their home campuses and were selected by the Board of Governors’ Committee on Personnel and Tenure.

On March 29th, 2018, a delegation headed by President Sheri Everts from Appalachian State University visited Beijing International Studies University (BISU).

Talking about sexism is fine, but it also should bring about some change for the better, according to Chloe Fishman. The sophomore at Appalachian State University wants frank conversations to spur people to acknowledge and address discrimination, which is why she and a classmate are helming a project to collect first-person stories from students on the Boone, N.C., campus who have encountered sexism.

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, in this country, there are approximately 75 million women in the civilian labor force—around 47 percent of all U.S. workers. “In my current role as communications liaison for Appalachian State University’s Reich College of Education, my counterparts—all women—and I are building a supportive and mutually beneficial community.”

North Carolina has built one of the finest university systems in the nation, University of North Carolina System President Margaret Spellings said Monday. But it can be better.

In light of recent school shootings, psychology professor Dr. Jim Deni discusses staffing of school psychologists on Public School Forum of North Carolina.

The Appalachian State University Academy at Middle Fork, which will have a reading literacy focus, last week accepted its first round of students — more than 200, with space for 315 before moving to a waiting list. The academy will be one of nine laboratory schools across the state, each of which is also run by an education college in the UNC system.

Former U.S. secretary of education Margaret Spellings says a new book doesn’t appreciate that yesterday’s useless knowledge becomes tomorrow’s practical necessity.