Whether you’re an alum or a new Mountaineer, enjoy exploring all things App State by visiting App Up — our App State Toolkit. Through this resource, you can learn about App State traditions, view campus in real time via live webcams, get to know — or revisit — App State lingo, and grab some digital swag.
Our faculty engage in research critical to understanding environmental changes and their impacts, locally and across the globe. One example — installing Mount Everest weather stations to provide data on mountain conditions and monitor the upper reaches of the atmosphere.
Sustainability and resilience are guiding principles at App State and institutionally interwoven into our strategic plan, academic mission, engagement locally and globally and day-to-day best practices. We are recognized as a national leader for our endeavors.
We’re enhancing the Appalachian Experience — with a stronger physical infrastructure and five-year goals that further empower human potential. Get the full picture through a new, special website detailing our growth and change.
App State ranks among the nation’s “Best” and “Top” colleges for 2021 and 2022, according to U.S. News & World Report, The Princeton Review and Forbes magazine. The national publications recently recognized App State for its academics, innovation, benefits for student veterans, programs to enhance the first-year experience and other aspects.
App State’s full-time, on-campus Master of Business Administration (MBA) has been named a Tier One program by CEO Magazine — part of the publication’s “2022 Global MBA Rankings.” App State has held the Tier One distinction for six consecutive years, and its online MBA was ranked alongside 98 internationally recognized programs.
U.S. News & World Report has named App State to its “Best Online Bachelor’s Programs” and “Best Online Master’s in Education Programs” lists — both part of its 2022 “Best Online Programs” rankings.
Preparing students to become engaged global citizens is at the heart of App State’s mission. Meet six international Mountaineers who have found career success through their App State Experience.
Presented by Appalachian State University’s Office of Arts & Cultural Programs, this annual celebration of the performing and visual arts is held every July in venues across the university campus, and features an eclectic, diverse mix of music, dance, theatre, visual arts and film programming.
Turchin Center Curator Mary Anne Redding moderates a panel discussion with Appalachian State University Art Department faculty members featured in the current biennial exhibition, which will be exhibited at the Turchin Center and in the Smith Gallery of the Schaefer Center. Learn about the work and practice of AppState’s esteemed artists and professors, with an opportunity to ask questions and view the galleries.
“Whose Line Is It Anyway?” meets The Tony Awards. Every song is fresh. Every scene is new. Every night is different. It’s all improvised and it’s all funny. Under the direction of improv veterans Rob Schiffmann and Deb Rabbai, TheaterWeek hailed the show as “brilliant” and The New York Post called Broadway’s Next Hit Musical “remarkable.”
In this debut feature by writer-director Laura Wandel, the everyday reality of grade school is seen from a child’s-eye-view as an obstacle course of degradation and abuse. Transposing the gritty realism of such filmmakers as Jacques Audiard and the Dardennes Brothers to the inner world of kids, Wandel crafts an empathetic and visceral portrait of the cruelty of children, and the failure of adults to protect them. Presented as part of the Helene and Stephen Weicholz Global Film Series.
The Rosen Sculpture Competition and Exhibition is a national juried competition presented annually by An Appalachian Summer Festival and the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts. Since its establishment by Martin and Doris Rosen in 1987, the Rosen Competition continues a tradition of showcasing contemporary American sculpture in outdoor settings across the beautiful campus of Appalachian State University.
Join five-time Grammy® winner esperanza spalding — American jazz bassist, singer, songwriter, and composer — in a stunning one-night-only performance. It will be an unforgettable night of musical exploration. spalding took home her fifth career Grammy at this year’s 64th Annual Grammy Awards on April 3, 2022, winning Best Jazz Vocal Album for her eighth studio album, “Songwrights Apothecary Lab.”
Summertime in Boone is filled with wildflowers, mountain breezes and cool evenings. Join us on campus as we enjoy the beauty of the High Country to celebrate Appalachian State University scholarships, the Black and Gold Society induction ceremony, the Alumni Awards Gala and the Jazz Brunch.
Enjoy a day in Boone full of campus activities and reunion fun, capped off with a Medallion Ceremony for members of the class of 1972 as they are inducted into the Black & Gold Society.
Each year the Appalachian Alumni Association recognizes a few individuals who have made a lasting impact on society and on Appalachian State University through outstanding professional, philanthropic or volunteer accomplishments. Selected through a highly competitive process, each recipient will be celebrated at the Alumni Awards Gala.
Enjoy the beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains by attending the 97th GCEA Conference on the campus of Appalachian State University. The Thomas W. Reese Graphic Communications Management Program is the host for this year’s Graphic Communications Education Association Summer Conference. If you have a passion for graphic communications education in any capacity this conference is for you!
Prof. Michael Berenbaum, the director of the Sigi Ziering Institute and professor of Jewish Studies at American Jewish University, will examine “Anti-Judaism and Anti-Semitism in European History and Visual Culture” in an on-campus lecture that is open to the public. This program is part of this year's 20th Anniversary Martin and Doris Rosen Summer Symposium on “Remembering the Holocaust.”
Eliyana Adler, an associate professor of History and Jewish Studies at the Pennsylvania State University and award-winning specialist in East European Jewish history, will give an in-person lecture on “Substitute Gravestones: Constructing and Reconstructing Holocaust Memorial Books.” It is keynote lecture for the Professor Rosemary Horowitz z''l Memorial Conference organized by the Center for Judaic, Holocaust and Peace Studies, which Prof. Horowitz, a specialist in Yizkor Books, headed for many years.
July 1 - 30, 2022
July 15 - 17, 2022
July 24 - 28, 2022
August 1, 20225:00 pm - 7:00 pm