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Krista Terry

Appalachian’s Krista Terry named 2018 UNC System Academic Affairs Faculty Fellow
Mar 19, 2018

Dr. Krista Terry, associate professor of instructional design and technology in the Department of Leadership and Educational Studies at Appalachian St...

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N.C. Humanities Council awards planning funds for ‘Decolonizing Citizenship and Indigenous Lifeways’ project
Mar 19, 2018

An interdisciplinary team at Appalachian State University has received a planning grant in the amount of $715 from the North Carolina Humanities ...

Anna McGeenamed elementary curriculum director

Alumna Anna McGee Named Stokes County Schools Elementary Curriculum Director
Mar 19, 2018

Stokes County Schools announced Anna McGee has been chosen as the new elementary curriculum director. McGee began in Stokes County as an elementa...

Irwin “Ike” Belk mimics the gesture of the bronze boy in “Just Reach a Little Higher,” a sculpture he commissioned for the Reich College of Education in 2012.

Dedicated benefactor and philanthropist Irwin ‘Ike’ Belk remembered
Mar 12, 2018

Many of the sculptures that adorn Appalachian State University’s campus were gifted by Irwin “Ike” Belk. The prominent North Carolina business l...

Eric Groce, professor of education at Appalachian State, talks with Middle Fork Elementary School third-grader Joanna Meng.

App State Academy accepts more than 200 Middle Fork Elementary students and is still taking applications
Mar 9, 2018

Winston-Salem JournalMarch 5, 2018The Appalachian State University Academy at Middle Fork, which will have a reading literacy focus, last week accepte...

Kelsey Agar ‘14

Alumni Update: Kelsey Agar ‘14, Training Teachers in Tanzania
Mar 9, 2018

Kelsey Agar originally from Lexington, North Carolina, graduated from Appalachian State University’s Reich College of Education with a bachelor’s ...

Jeff Bates Received Graduate Student of the Year Award at the ASCA National Conference
Mar 8, 2018

Jeff Bates, a second-year graduate student in the College Student Development program (Department of Human Development and Psychological Counseling), ...

Krista Terry Named 2018 UNC System Academic Affairs Faculty Fellow

Krista Terry Named 2018 UNC System Academic Affairs Faculty Fellow
Mar 7, 2018

Dr. Krista Terry, an associate professor of Instructional Design and Technology in the Department of Leadership and Educational Studies at Appalachian...

Justin Chandler ’16, teaching at West Alexander Middle School in Taylorsville. Photo by Rebekah Saylors

Graduate Pens Young Adult Novel, Uses it in His Teaching
Feb 27, 2018

Justin Chandler ’16 graduated from Appalachian State University with a bachelor’s degree in middle grades education-language arts and science...

Representatives from the 2018 YALI institute partners at the partner retreat held in Washington, D.C., in early February.

Appalachian to Host 2018 Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders
Feb 21, 2018

For the third consecutive year, Appalachian State University has been selected as an institute partner for the 2018 Mandela Washington Fellowship for ...