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Avery County Native Liz Silvers Promoted to Vice- President at Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute
Jan 18, 2023

Liz Silvers, a veteran educator who was raised in the Powdermill Community of Avery County, has been promoted to Vice-President for Instruction at Cal...

Perspective | North Carolina schools are anything but ‘low-performing’
Jan 18, 2023

Over the past three months, our team from the Empowering Teacher Learning (ETL) project at Appalachian State University has been traversing western No...

RRI Seed Grant recipients share research outcomes
Jan 18, 2023

BOONE, N.C. — In Fall 2021, Appalachian State University's Department of Rural Resilience and Innovation (RRI), the newest department in t...

Laura Shears

Shears Receives the 2022 Naylor Award Recipient
Jan 10, 2023

At the Fall 2022 Doctoral Symposium, Dr. Laura Shears was awarded the Alice P. Naylor Outstanding Dissertation Award for the 2021-2022 academic year. ...

Commencement grad caps

App State confers approximately 1,500 degrees at Fall 2022 Commencement
Jan 3, 2023

Appalachian State University recognized nearly 1,500 graduates during its Fall Commencement ceremonies held Dec. 16 at the Holmes Convocation Center.A...

Kindel Turner Nash

Nash Awarded the Early Literacy Teacher Educator of the Year Award
Dec 2, 2022

Dr. Kindel Turner Nash, the Spangler Distinguished Professor of Early Childhood Literacy in the Department of Reading Education and Special Education,...

Sydney speaking at event

Golden LEAF Scholarship Recipient Reflects on Her Time at App State
Nov 29, 2022

Elementary education major Sydney McKeaver, from Siloam, North Carolina, recently shared the impact that being a Golden LEAF Scholarship recipient has...

Don Phipps accepting award

Don Phipps of Caldwell County is the 2023 Superintendent of the Year
Nov 29, 2022

At a ceremony in Greensboro on Tuesday, Don Phipps, superintendent of Caldwell County Schools, was named the 2023 A. Craig Ph...

Extra Yard for Teachers Recognition

Grant from the Sun Belt Conference Supports Teacher Recruitment for RCOE and WCS
Nov 21, 2022

Appalachian State University’s Reich College of Education (RCOE) and Watauga County Schools (WCS) received a $6,000 gift from the Sun Belt Conferenc...