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Topic: Community Engagement

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  • 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.

  • Appalachian, Watauga County close on old Watauga High School property
    Appalachian, Watauga County close on old Watauga High School property
    Oct. 2, 2017

    The official transfer of the old Watauga High School property to Appalachian State University from Watauga County took place Friday, Sept. 29. The property is located at 400 High School Drive in Boone.

  • Appalachian's As-U-R — an academic resource for any student
    Appalachian's As-U-R — an academic resource for any student
    Oct. 1, 2017

    The intensive student support program As-U-R, which is offered by Appalachian State University’s Student Learning Center, provides support and resources for a variety of Appalachian students.

  • Community invited to Oct. 1 recognition of African-Americans at rest in Old Boone Cemetery
    Community invited to Oct. 1 recognition of African-Americans at rest in Old Boone Cemetery
    Sept. 28, 2017

    For many years, the graves of over 160 African-Americans laid in the open field below Old Boone Cemetery behind Appalachian State University’s Cone Residence Hall unknown and mostly forgotten. They’re a secret no longer.

  • Alumna Profile: Morgan Ledford ’17
    Alumna Profile: Morgan Ledford ’17
    Sept. 19, 2017

    This public health major is now the positive parenting implementation coordinator at AppHealthCare, the local county health department.

  • Appalachian senior serves as student liaison to UNC Board of Governors
    Appalachian senior serves as student liaison to UNC Board of Governors
    Sept. 15, 2017

    As the new president of the University of North Carolina Association of Student Governments (UNCASG), Appalachian State University senior Tyler Hardin hopes to use his position to bring more student voices to the UNC Board of Governors.

  • Appalachian Building Emergency Team members meet with first responders
    Appalachian Building Emergency Team members meet with first responders
    Sept. 12, 2017

    The purpose of the meeting was two-fold: to provide an opportunity for campus emergency team members and first responders to get to know one another, and to offer the chance for safety leaders in the community to provide information that would be useful to everyone in attendance in the case of an emergency.

  • From Farm to Table
    From Farm to Table

    Appalachian donates fresh produce to local organizations for residents in need

    Sept. 9, 2017

    Appalachian donates fresh produce to local organizations for residents in need.

  • RIEEE offers free offsets workshop Oct. 6
    RIEEE offers free offsets workshop Oct. 6
    Sept. 7, 2017

    Appalachian State University’s Research Institute for Environment, Energy, and Economics (RIEEE) is hosting a daylong workshop on the future of carbon offsets and carbon markets in the southeastern United States.

  • ASU’s Walk for Awareness is just as important 28 years later
    ASU’s Walk for Awareness is just as important 28 years later
    The Appalachian
    Sept. 6, 2017

    The 28th annual Walk for Awareness was consolidated to the Schaefer Center on Tuesday due to rain, but the scheduled speakers and performances went on just as they have been since 1990. The walk is a community gathering to remember and support both victims and survivors of interpersonal violence that started after an Appalachian staff member, Jeni Gray, was raped and killed in 1989.

  • From Farm to Table
    From Farm to Table
    Sept. 6, 2017

    Appalachian State University’s Goodnight Family Department of Sustainable Development has forged a partnership with Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture (BRWIA) to donate excess food harvested at the university’s Blackburn Vannoy Teaching and Research Farm and campus gardens to families in need.

  • State Program Creates 'Lab Schools' To Help Struggling Students, Train Teachers
    State Program Creates 'Lab Schools' To Help Struggling Students, Train Teachers
    88.5 WFDD
    Sept. 5, 2017

    The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and Appalachian State University are among a handful of institutions selected to help transform public schools in grades K-8. The colleges will run the experimental lab schools. This includes hiring teachers and principals, who will become university employees.

  • Home School Physical Education Program accepting students, classes begin Sept. 12
    Home School Physical Education Program accepting students, classes begin Sept. 12
    Sept. 1, 2017

    Appalachian State University’s Physical Education Program will offer the Home School Physical Education Program for the 2017-18 academic year.

  • Registration open for Black Saturday 5K to be held Sept. 23
    Registration open for Black Saturday 5K to be held Sept. 23
    Aug. 31, 2017

    Registration is open for the annual Black Saturday 5K Run/Walk. Proceeds benefit the Recreation Management Scholarship Endowment of the recreation management program in the Beaver College of Health Sciences at Appalachian State University.

  • Dave by the Bell: Move In Day 2017
    Dave by the Bell: Move In Day 2017
    Aug. 23, 2017

    From cacti to Croatian candy and tie-dyed fanny packs in between, new App State students are bringing some funky stuff with them to the dorms.

  • Girls on the Run-High Country kicks off fall programs
    Girls on the Run-High Country kicks off fall programs
    Aug. 21, 2017

    Girls on the Run of the High Country (GOTR-HC) announces the start of the fall 2017 season. Approximately 200 girls in third through eighth grade will participate this fall in GOTR-HC programs, which inspire girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum that creatively integrates running, according to Council Director Mary Sheryl Horine.

  • Fall Open House to be held Sept. 16
    Fall Open House to be held Sept. 16
    Aug. 16, 2017

    Open House activities give prospective students and their families an opportunity to speak with representatives from admissions, financial aid, academic areas, campus support areas and student clubs and organizations.

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