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Diamond Slone Couch

Diamond Slone Couch Receives Fellowship
Oct 5, 2020

Diamond Slone Couch, a graduate student in the Reich College of Education’s (RCOE) Marriage and Family Therapy program (MFT), has been selected as a...

Megan DePasquale

Megan DePasquale Awarded the Leslie Dunn Memorial Scholarship
Oct 5, 2020

Megan DePasquale, of Albemarle, North Carolina, was awarded the Leslie Dunn Memorial Scholarship. She is currently a student in the Education Speciali...

Meg Kovacs teaching

Alumni Update: Meg Kovacs ’09 ’13
Sep 29, 2020

Margaret “Meg” Kovacs (née Sanford), originally from Hickory, North Carolina, graduated in 2009 with a B.S. in elementary education and in 2013 w...

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App State hosts virtual celebration of research and creative activity, honors two faculty members
Sep 29, 2020

The Appalachian State University Community had a virtual front row seat to a wide-ranging selection of faculty research and creative activity through ...

LillyBess Rollins

LilyBess Rollins Opens Little Library for Service-Learning Project
Sep 23, 2020

As part of her Children at Risk course last spring, LilyBess Rollins, a senior elementary education major, outlined a little lending library service p...

Jimmeka Anderson

National Association for Media Literacy Education Spotlight: I AM not the MEdia, Inc.
Sep 22, 2020

Jimmeka Anderson graduated with her MA in educational media in 2017.At the age of 26, Jimmeka Anderson founded the nonprofit organization, I AM not th...

Leslie McKesson

Alumni Update: Leslie McKesson ’93 ’09 ’16
Sep 17, 2020

Dr. Leslie Dula McKesson, originally from Lenoir, North Carolina, holds three degrees from Appalachian: M.A. in higher education, Ed.S. in higher educ...

Clockwise from top left: students from Instituto Basico Nuevo Amanecer; Michael Weiss, Piper Strzelecki, Savannah Rivers; Caty Parham & Hawken Kirchener; Piper S.; Piper S.; Greg McClure; ASU delegation; Copal AA elders. Photos by Jeff Goodman

Honors seminar examines US imperialism and intervention in Guatemala
Sep 14, 2020

During the Spring 2020 semester, before Covid-19 turned the world upside down, Dr. Greg McClure and Jeff Goodman from the Reich College of Education l...

Alyssa Montogomery

Alumni Update: Alyssa Montgomery ’12
Sep 2, 2020

Alyssa Montgomery, originally from Raleigh, North Carolina, graduated in 2012 with a Bachelor of Music in music performance and music education. Curre...

Melissa Recknor

Recknor ’19 Receives Presidential Award for Meritorious Service
Sep 1, 2020

Melissa Recknor ’19, an alumna and current education specialist student, has received the Presidential Award for Meritorious Service from Surry Comm...