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App State celebrates alumni excellence — 3 Mountaineers honored at 2024 Alumni Awards Gala
Jul 22, 2024
Appalachian State University’s Alumni Association honored three Mountaineers at the 2024 Alumni Awards Gala, held July 13 in the Gran...
App State honors 27 students, faculty and staff at 2nd annual Awards of Distinction ceremony
May 20, 2024
Congratulations to RCOE alumni Dr. Nate Weigl '18 (Ed.D.), Diana Nelson '07 '19 (M.A. in higher education), and Emory Maiden '96 '09 (B.S. in middle g...
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Dr. Ashley Carpenter Is App State’s First Spencer Foundation Grant Recipient
Apr 16, 2024
Dr. Ashley Carpenter, assistant professor of higher education in the Department of Counseling, Family Therapy, and Higher Education, is Appalachian St...
App State Online bachelor’s, master’s programs named among nation's ‘best’ for 2024 by U.S. News & World Report
Feb 23, 2024
Appalachian State University has strengthened its standing among the nation’s best schools for online education, according to U.S. News & World ...
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Four Reich College of Education Students Inducted into the Cratis D. Williams Society of Outstanding Graduates
Dec 14, 2023
Four Reich College of Education (RCOE) students have been inducted into the Cratis D. Williams Society of Outstanding Graduates:Anne Berryhill,Nakia H...
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What a decline in rural colleges means for rural communities
Aug 11, 2023
Dr. Andrew Koricich, executive director of the Alliance for Research on Regional Colleges and associate professor of higher education, was interviewed...
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1A Remaking America: The future of higher education
Jun 6, 2023
It’s graduation season, which means a lot of teenagers are thinking about their futures after high school. We recently traveled to Wichita, Kansas,&...
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2023 Reich College of Education Award Recipients Named
May 30, 2023
Eight faculty and staff members of Appalachian State University’s Reich College of Education (RCOE), along with the Mentoring Guild faculty, were re...
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Seeing Policy in Action: Field Trip to the State Capitol
May 30, 2023
Field trips to the capitol are not just for the K-12 students. As part of Dr. Jason Lynch’s HE 6340 Policy Analysis in Higher Education course this ...
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ACC president Dr. Algie Gatewood to retire
May 18, 2023
Dr. Algie Gatewood is ending his 10-year run as president of Alamance Community College on June 30.Gatewood holds a doctorate in adult and community c...