Topic: Diversity

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Faces of Courage Award Recipient Barbara Hart
Oct. 8, 2015
This 2015 video tribute features Barbara Reeves Hart ’65, one of four recipients of Appalachian State University’s Faces of Courage Award.
Faces of Courage Award Recipient Dr. Carolyn Anderson
Oct. 8, 2015
This 2015 video tribute features Dr. Carolyn Anderson ’69, one of four recipients of Appalachian State University’s Faces of Courage Award.
Historian Alon Confino lectures Oct. 21 at Appalachian
Oct. 7, 2015
Professor Alon Confino of Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, and the University of Virginia will present the talk “A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide.”
13th Annual Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition opens for submissions
Oct. 6, 2015
The 13th Annual Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition (AMPC) is open for registration and submissions.
Faces of Courage Award presented to four Appalachian alumni
Oct. 5, 2015
They might not have realized it at the time, but many former Appalachian State University faculty, staff and students spearheaded the university’s diversity efforts beginning in the 1960s.
Award-winning Kander and Ebb musical “Chicago” opens this weekend
Oct. 5, 2015
The Appalachian Musical Theatre Ensemble presents the multi-award winning musical “Chicago,” by the legendary duo of John Kander and Fred Ebb.
Appalachian awards honorary bachelor’s degree to Lenoir resident Patricia Beane
Oct. 2, 2015
More than 50 years after enrolling in college, Lenoir resident Patricia Ferguson Beane now has a diploma. Beane received an honorary bachelor’s degree during Appalachian State University’s Celebration of Integration held Oct. 2 on campus.
Commemoration of Integration will be streamed via the Internet
Sep. 29, 2015
The ceremony, to be held in the Holmes Convocation Center, is designed to inform, educate and provide deserved recognition and acknowledgement to the historic integration at Appalachian The program will honor former students and faculty who played a role during this time.
Appalachian commemorates integration with Oct. 2 ceremony
Sep. 28, 2015
Alumni who were African-American leaders while at Appalachian and part of the university’s early diversity efforts will be honored Oct. 2 at Appalachian and receive a Faces of Courage award during a Commemoration of Integration celebration.
Nominations sought for Appalachian’s Global Leadership awards
Sep. 25, 2015
The awards recognize students, faculty and staff who have made a significant contribution to advance global learning at the university.
Fleming Scholarship awarded to Boyd, Gordon and Henderson
Sep. 25, 2015
The inaugural Willie C. Fleming Scholarship has been awarded to three freshmen at Appalachian State University—Troy Boyd of Stanley, Latanya Gordon of Fayetteville and Jasmine Henderson of Charlotte. Each has received a $1,000 scholarship.
Student support services helps first-generation college students succeed
Sep. 24, 2015
For the past 43 years, Appalachian State University has been part of the federally funded Student Support Services Program (SSS) designed to help increase the number of low-income college students, first-generation students and those with disabilities successfully complete a postsecondary education.
“Rhythm and Revolution” — Cuba Study Abroad, 2015
Sep. 23, 2015
Images from a multidisciplinary, study abroad course titled “Rhythm and Revolution: Exploring Music and Dance in Cuba.” The program was led by faculty in dance, music and global studies.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak to speak at Appalachian Sept. 24
Sep. 18, 2015
Professor Gayatri Spivak—a brilliant theorist in postcolonial studies—will deliver the talk “The Subaltern, Again and Again.”
Appalachian awarded $273,922 from U.S. Department of Education to support Student Veterans
Sep. 16, 2015
Appalachian is the only UNC system school to receive DOE Centers of Excellence for Veteran Student Success (CEVSS) funding.
Humanities symposium held Oct. 9 at Appalachian
Sep. 9, 2015
How the life stories of colonized peoples reclaim and transform the humanities today and how they affect the multicultural landscape burgeoning in western North Carolina is the topic of the Third Annual Humanities Symposium.
Joyful music
Sep. 9, 2015
Members of the University of Zululand Choir from Durban, South Africa, gave a lunch-time performance Sept. 9 in the dining facility in Appalachian State University’s Plemmons Student Union.
Education can be life changing, speaker says
Sep. 4, 2015
Never take your college education for granted, students at Appalachian State University were told during fall convocation Sept. 3. That caveat was delivered by Ishmael Beah, author of the memoir “A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier,” which was selected for the university’s Common Reading Program this year.