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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 ...

Dr. Susan Hedges and María Hofman Hernandez Named as Director and Assistant Director for SDAP
Sep 28, 2020

Dr. Susan Hedges has been named the new director and principal investigator of Scholars with Diverse Abilities Program (SDAP), and María Hofman has b...

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...

Elizabeth Fields

Elizabeth Fields Joins RCOE Staff
Sep 15, 2020

Elizabeth Fields has joined the Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership in the Reich College of Education (RCOE) at Appalachian State University as...

Raul the Third

Virtual Author Visit Thursday, September 17: Raúl the Third
Sep 14, 2020

Appalachian State University's Reich College of Education (RCOE) will be hosting celebrated author and illustrator Raúl the Third, Thursday, Septembe...

Education Peer Ambassadors

Meet the 2020-21 Education Peer Ambassadors
Sep 14, 2020

The Education Peer Ambassador Program is a unique leadership opportunity for students of undergraduate teacher education programs at Appalachian State...

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...