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Topic: Community Engagement

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  • Trustees approve end zone project
    Trustees approve end zone project
    Watauga Democrat
    Dec. 8, 2017

    Appalachian’s $38.2 million north end zone project is moving down the field with approval by the university’s board of trustees on Friday. The trustees unanimously voted to endorse the 87,400-square-foot mixed-use development that will replace the Owens Field House, which was built in 1972 and which leaders say has “significant deferred maintenance issues.”

  • Appalachian’s ACCESS program receives additional funding from Women’s Fund of the Blue Ridge for women’s summer school scholarships
    Appalachian’s ACCESS program receives additional funding from Women’s Fund of the Blue Ridge for women’s summer school scholarships
    Nov. 29, 2017

    Continued funding from Women’s Fund of the Blue Ridge will provide five summer school scholarships for women in Appalachian’s ACCESS program in 2018.

  • UNC-Greensboro funds Learning Through Implementation: Investigating Mathematics Learning Across Communities project
    UNC-Greensboro funds Learning Through Implementation: Investigating Mathematics Learning Across Communities project
    Nov. 29, 2017

    Funding from the University of North Carolina Greensboro will support the work of Appalachian and UNC-G professors to advise upon and implement new secondary mathematics standards.

  • Continued funding for marriage and family therapy interns providing services for rural Appalachian youth
    Continued funding for marriage and family therapy interns providing services for rural Appalachian youth
    Nov. 29, 2017

    Funding from the Health Resources and Services Administration will continue a program for marriage and family therapy interns to provide services for children, adolescents and transitional age youth in rural Appalachian communities.

  • Solar-powered shelter: Hospitality House of Boone reveals 54 solar panels
    Solar-powered shelter: Hospitality House of Boone reveals 54 solar panels
    Watauga Democrat
    Nov. 28, 2017

    The Hospitality House of Boone cut the ribbon Nov. 28 on its new solar panel system with 54 photovoltaic panels, becoming what it says is the first homeless services facility in the United States with solar power. Appalachian State University’s Appalachian in the Community Together service group committed to $5,000 for the project.

  • Alumna Profile: Sarah Tucker ’17
    Alumna Profile: Sarah Tucker ’17
    Nov. 22, 2017

    Having received her family and consumer sciences degree at Appalachian, Sarah Tucker now pursues her passion as a teacher, making a difference in her students’ lives every day.

  • Appalachian Carbon Research Group (ACRG) Hosts Successful Forest Offset Workshop
    Appalachian Carbon Research Group (ACRG) Hosts Successful Forest Offset Workshop
    High Country Press
    Nov. 17, 2017

    Western North Carolina is home to abundant and rich forest carbon stocks, which can be placed in forest carbon offset programs to support carbon storage and sequestration, forest health and retention, enhance the recreational and intergenerational value of forest land, and provide additional income for families. On Oct. 6, 2017, the Appalachian Carbon Research Group (ACRG) hosted the Offsets for Future Forest Stewardship and Education Together (OFFSET) Workshop at Appalachian.

  • Five Appalachian students provide healthcare in Dominican Republic
    Five Appalachian students provide healthcare in Dominican Republic
    Mountain Times
    Nov. 16, 2017

    Appalachian's Global Medical Training Chapter, approved by the university in the beginning of 2017, sent five Appalachian students this summer to the Dominican Republic to provide free healthcare to rural villages.

  • Visiting Teachers Bring Global Perspectives to Appalachian Towns
    Visiting Teachers Bring Global Perspectives to Appalachian Towns
    Huffington Post
    Nov. 13, 2017

    “Our students here in the Appalachian Mountains don’t have many opportunities to meet people from other countries and cultures,” says Dr. Maria Anastasiou at Appalachian State University. But a recent visit by 21 science and English teachers from 16 different countries has been changing that, both for the university and the surrounding community.

  • Appalachian honors veterans, 1988 alumnus Col. Ralph L. ‘Bo’ Clayton III speaks
    Appalachian honors veterans, 1988 alumnus Col. Ralph L. ‘Bo’ Clayton III speaks
    Nov. 10, 2017

    A crowd of approximately 150 gathered beside the B.B. Dougherty Administration Building on the Appalachian State University campus, Friday, Nov. 10, for a Veterans Day ceremony.

  • Middle Fork to partner with App State for school conversion in 2018-19
    Middle Fork to partner with App State for school conversion in 2018-19
    Winston-Salem Journal
    Nov. 9, 2017

    In a year, Middle Fork Elementary School will have a new name and several new staff members as part of an effort to improve student literacy and overall test scores. The school was chosen as one of nine laboratory schools in North Carolina. All schools selected are low-performing K-8 schools and are partnering with a state university for five years — in Middle Fork Elementary’s situation, it will work with Appalachian State University.

  • Supporting Appalachian’s veterans
    Supporting Appalachian’s veterans

    Open one year, Student Veteran Resource Center provides key services and important connections

    Nov. 9, 2017

    In honor of Veterans Day, we take a look at how Appalachian’s student veterans transition to civilian life and work toward their college degree.

  • Alumna Profile: Belinda Marino ’10 ’13
    Alumna Profile: Belinda Marino ’10 ’13
    Nov. 7, 2017

    Belinda Marino ’10 was named Wilkes County’s 2016-17 Teacher of the Year. When asked what she loves best about her career, Marino said that if she had to pick one, it would be the relationships she gets to build with students.

  • Accounting major earns U.S. citizenship, gives back to Ethiopia
    Accounting major earns U.S. citizenship, gives back to Ethiopia
    Nov. 3, 2017

    Senior Maheder Yohannes emigrated from Ethiopia at age 10. Now a U.S. citizen, the first-generation college student is helping underprivileged children in her native country stay in school.

  • Appalachian education student aspires to teach lessons in individuality
    Appalachian education student aspires to teach lessons in individuality
    Nov. 3, 2017

    Representing people who may not conform to the mainstream is important to Judson MacDonald, the 2016-17 Outstanding Student Teacher of the Year at Appalachian State University.

  • NC attorney general hosts first collegiate council meeting to combat college opioid crisis
    NC attorney general hosts first collegiate council meeting to combat college opioid crisis
    The Daily Tar Heel
    Nov. 2, 2017

    N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein led the first of four collegiate council meetings within the UNC system to work with students on combating opioid addiction on college campuses. The meeting, held at Appalachian State University on Oct. 16, included representatives from Appalachian, Western Carolina University, UNC-Asheville, East Carolina University, N.C. State, UNC-Greensboro, UNC-Pembroke and UNC-Chapel Hill.

  • Appalachian Wilson Scholars host Charlotte middle schoolers for outdoor leadership and college access programs
    Appalachian Wilson Scholars host Charlotte middle schoolers for outdoor leadership and college access programs

    Initiative is part of the premier scholarship program that embodies academic excellence, leadership and service

    Nov. 1, 2017

    The City to Mountains Student Exchange was started in 2015 by current seniors Sarah Aldridge, from Concord, and Juliet Irving, from Batesburg, South Carolina, when they were sophomore Wilson Scholars at Appalachian.

  • A community of ‘doers’
    A community of ‘doers’

    The Appalachian Community pulls together to address food insecurity in the High Country

    Nov. 1, 2017

    North Carolina has a higher-than-average food insecurity rate — 16 percent, ranking it eighth among the United States for the number of people who lack access to enough food for an active, healthy life. In comparison, a total of 13 percent of Americans were considered food insecure between 2013-15, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service. When the Appalachian Community explores a social problem like this, it doesn’t “just talk.”

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