Appalachian State University

The university is offering free COVID-19 tests for App State students, faculty and staff at “pop-up” testing events. Both walk-up and drive-up testing will be available. No appointments required; however, you will be asked to show your AppCard.

The Department of Accounting in the Walker College of Business will host a free tax help lab for App State students, faculty and staff members to help them prepare and e-file 2020 federal and state income tax returns. Assistance is available either in person in Peacock Hall Room 4015 or via Zoom.

This talk engages with the question of what it means to assess and grade college student writing for a more antiracist classroom. It focuses not on people behaving badly or racist, but rather on the historical and structural ways that most academics judge and read language; teachers’ ways of assessing language; disciplines’ logics and ways with words; and most professions’ expectations of language use.

This workshop will challenge participants to bravely investigate their own classroom assessment practices, particularly their orientations toward student writing as embodied in their feedback to that writing. The workshop will consider habits of White language that inform assessment practices in our own classrooms as well as several “fast thinking” mind heuristics.

Join us for a Q&A with Matthew Arnold and share in the insights behind his exhibition, “Longing for Amelia — The Historical and Mythological Landscape.” With this photographic project, Matthew Arnold documents the environs that play host to the many theories which attempt to resolve the mystery of Amelia Earhart’s disappearance.

Tessie Castillo and two of her co-authors of “Crimson Letters: Voices from Death Row” will be speaking with the App State community about life on death row and their search for hope and purpose behind bars in North Carolina. Presented via Zoom.

Streamed live from the stage of the Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts! Steep Canyon Rangers are Asheville, North Carolina’s GRAMMY winners and perennial Billboard chart-toppers (and frequent collaborators of the renowned banjoist and occasional comedian Steve Martin).

The first online Southeast German Studies workshop brings together 50 junior and senior American and German scholars from a wide variety of disciplines to discuss the latest research in German-Jewish and forced migration studies. The workshop includes a series of panels along with information meetings on how to fund research in Germany. Presented online via Zoom.

In cooperation with the Southeast German Studies Consortium, the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies invites the public to an online lecture by Prof. S. Schueler-Springorum live from Germany. A prominent scholar of German-Jewish history, Prof. Schueler-Springorum heads the renowned Center for Research on Antisemitism in Berlin. Her talk is entitled "Gender, Sex and Violence: Race Defilement in Nazi Germany." Presented online via Zoom.

Attend this virtual App State program to learn ways to navigate transferring, adjusting and flourishing at a four-year institution.

Jeffrey D. Sachs is a world-renowned economics professor, bestselling author, innovative educator and global leader in sustainable development. He is widely recognized for bold and effective strategies to address complex challenges including debt crises, hyperinflations, the transition from central planning to market economies, the control of AIDS, malaria, and other diseases, the escape from extreme poverty, and the battle against human-induced climate change.

Join us for an informative day designed for high school students and prospective transfer students. Meet our faculty, tour campus, and learn more about majors and programs, scholarships, financial aid, the admissions process and what it’s like to be a member of the Appalachian Community.