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House Committee Holds Hearing on Helping Teachers Succeed
Oct 30, 2024

Amid a nationwide crisis in training, recruiting, and retaining teachers, the House Committee on Education and the Workforce held a hearing on Septemb...

GEAR Up's Corinne Smith Interviewed on High Country Radio
Oct 30, 2024

Note: This interviewed aired before Hurricane Helene.It is National Gear Up week and Corinne Smith, Gear Up Director from App State, stopped by W...

WCS, App State RCOE receive $6,000 grant for Teacher Cadet Program
Oct 30, 2024

Appalachian State University’s Reich College of Education and Watauga County Schools received a $6,000 gift from the Sun Belt Conference as part of ...

Six-year-old Keeley Neely colors at her desk inside Hardin Park Elementary in Boone, N.C., on Thursday, Oct. 10, 2024.

Student mental health is a top priority for western NC educators after Helene
Oct 25, 2024

Alumna Claire Jensen '05 shares the creative ways she as a school counselor is helping her students cope with the tragedy of Hurricane Helene....

Application fees waived for students in hurricane-affected counties
Oct 25, 2024

University of North Carolina institutions will waive application fees for all students from 39 disaster-declared counties and the Eastern Band of Cher...

Relief Fund

Help Mountaineers in need by giving to the App State Disaster Relief Fund
Oct 25, 2024

To assist community members during this difficult time, the university has established the App State Disaster Relief Fund, which is providing unr...

Hurricane Helene’s impacts on the App State Boone campus
Oct 25, 2024

Appalachian State University’s Boone campus has sustained significant impacts from the flooding and storm damage caused by Hurricane Helene — whic...

Gracie receives certificate

Gracie Bullington ’23 Named Finalist for NCACTE’s Student Teacher of the Year
Sep 24, 2024

History, social studies education alumna Gracie Bullington ’23 was named one of the top five finalists for the North Carolina Association of College...

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5 Watauga High graduates awarded App State’s New River Light and Power Scholarship
Sep 18, 2024

Five first-year Mountaineer students — all graduates of Watauga High School — have been named recipients of Appalachian State University’s ...

ACES Info Session

Appalachian Community of Education Scholars: Apply by February 1, 2025
Sep 17, 2024

Are you a prospective App State student planning to major in education?  Apply now to be a part of the Appalachian Community of Education Scholar...