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  • Campus emergency siren test to be conducted July 2
    Appalachian State University will test its Boone campus siren warning system at 11:55 a.m., Wednesday, July 2, 2025. Examples of the tones that are used in an emergency or during tests can be heard online by visiting the Siren Warning System webpage on App State’s Emergency Preparedness website. Learn more

Topic: Community Engagement

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  • Food insecurity — it’s real and it’s a problem in the High Country
    Food insecurity — it’s real and it’s a problem in the High Country
    Nov. 1, 2017

    Dr. Adam Hege is an Appalachian State University public health researcher who has looked at hunger in Caldwell, Watauga and McDowell counties.

  • Food Summit, other projects model how campus and community can work together
    Food Summit, other projects model how campus and community can work together
    Nov. 1, 2017

    The annual Food Summit sponsored by Appalachian State University and Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture is billed as a gathering of scholars, farmers and food lovers.

  • Is your plate half empty or half full? Students benefit from food pantry
    Is your plate half empty or half full? Students benefit from food pantry
    Nov. 1, 2017

    Appalachian State University’s food pantry opened during the 2016–17 academic year in response to surveys that indicated food insecurity was above 46 percent for students.

  • New generation of students want action, not just awareness
    New generation of students want action, not just awareness
    Nov. 1, 2017

    A generation of students more concerned with effecting change, rather than simply learning about an issue, is encouraging campus units like Appalachian and the Community Together (ACT) to examine how it develops student engagement programs.

  • Marching band festival draws high school bands from across the region
    Marching band festival draws high school bands from across the region
    The Appalachian
    Nov. 1, 2017

    Braving cold and rainy conditions, the Rho Tau chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia fraternity hosted 20 high school bands on Saturday for the 38th annual Appalachian Marching Band Festival. Bands arrived from across the region to compete, from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina to Abingdon, Virginia.

  • Community Feast - October 3, 2017
    Community Feast - October 3, 2017
    Nov. 1, 2017

    Watch scenes from the October 2017 Community FEaST (Food Engagement and Story Telling) event on Sanford Mall. Video produced by University Documentary Services.

  • Appalachian Alumni Association 2017 award winners
    Appalachian Alumni Association 2017 award winners
    Oct. 30, 2017

    Three socially conscious, entrepreneurial alumni are honored by the Appalachian Alumni Association.

  • App State Mountaineers Enjoy Record-Breaking Crowds at Kidd Brewer Stadium This Season
    App State Mountaineers Enjoy Record-Breaking Crowds at Kidd Brewer Stadium This Season
    High Country Press
    Oct. 26, 2017

    Crowds in excess of 30,000 are heading to the High Country to watch Appalachian State’s first-place team compete on a home field surrounded by visible stadium enhancements that have made the gameday experience in Boone even better.

  • 2017 TEA Fellows
    2017 TEA Fellows
    Oct. 19, 2017

    See images from the 2017 Teaching Excellence and Achievement (TEA) program at Appalachian State University.

  • Black Mountain College Semester at Appalachian to include lectures, workshops, art, films and other events
    Black Mountain College Semester at Appalachian to include lectures, workshops, art, films and other events
    Oct. 18, 2017

    For Appalachian State University’s Black Mountain College (BMC) Semester in spring 2018, multiple departments across the university are collaborating with area museums and other venues to host exhibits, lectures and workshops that will highlight the importance of BMC’s influence within the Appalachian region’s creative, educational and political movements.

  • Spooky Duke Race and Costume Contest is Saturday, Oct. 28
    Spooky Duke Race and Costume Contest is Saturday, Oct. 28
    Oct. 10, 2017

    The 7th annual Spooky Duke Race and Costume Contest will be held on the campus of Appalachian State University to benefit Parent to Parent Family Support Network™-High Country.

  • Embracing a rich tradition — space and recognition for the NPHC’s Divine Nine
    Embracing a rich tradition — space and recognition for the NPHC’s Divine Nine
    Oct. 9, 2017

    Appalachian State University’s National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) Plots and Gardens project provides space and recognition for the Divine Nine — the historically black Greek-letter organizations that compose the NPHC.

  • Appalachian’s Homecoming 2017 photo gallery
    Appalachian’s Homecoming 2017 photo gallery
    Oct. 9, 2017

    The Black and Gold gathered this past weekend, welcomed by a hint of autumn color and spectacular weather, to celebrate Appalachian State University’s Homecoming 2017.

  • Teaching Excellence and Achievement program (TEA)
    Teaching Excellence and Achievement program (TEA)

    Appalachian hosts 21 international educators enhancing their teaching skills

    Oct. 5, 2017

    Appalachian is hosting 21 educators from 18 countries this month through its Teaching Excellence and Achievement program (TEA), now in its seventh year.

  • Town commemorates unmarked graves of African-Americans
    Town commemorates unmarked graves of African-Americans
    The Appalachian
    Oct. 5, 2017

    A marker commemorating the unmarked graves of African-American residents of Boone was unveiled Sunday to a crowd of around 100 people in Boone Cemetery in an effort to preserve the long history of Boone’s traditionally black Junaluska community.

  • Reclaiming a community treasure
    Reclaiming a community treasure

    Appalachian research, community support culminate in marker at African-American cemetery

    Oct. 4, 2017

    Student and faculty researchers and community support have helped reclaim an African-American cemetery near campus.

  • Historic black cemetery grave marker unveiled
    Historic black cemetery grave marker unveiled
    Watauga Democrat
    Oct. 3, 2017

    Never knowing where some of his family members were buried, Harold Isbell stood in awe and looked at the newly erected historic black cemetery grave marker scanning to find his relatives’ names.

  • Sold-Out 2nd Annual Community-Wide Fall Shag Dance Held on September 30th
    Sold-Out 2nd Annual Community-Wide Fall Shag Dance Held on September 30th
    High Country Press
    Oct. 2, 2017

    On Saturday, September 30th, the Boone Shag Club and Appalachian State University Department of Theater and Dance hosted the 2nd Annual Community-Wide Fall Shag Dance. The event took place on Appalachian State University’s campus at the Reich College of Education Building.

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