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  • App State earns R2 designation for high research activity and doctorate production
    App State earns R2 designation for high research activity and doctorate production

    App State has earned a Research 2 designation through the Carnegie Classification system for high research activity and doctorate production. App State’s research expenditures in fiscal year 2023 were more than $8.4 million and, in 2022–23, the university awarded 20 doctoral degrees.

  • App State earns rankings among the best schools in the nation, Southeast for 2024–25
    App State earns rankings among the best schools in the nation, Southeast for 2024–25

    The latest college rankings and recognitions of six national publications — including U.S. News & World Report, The Princeton Review and Forbes magazine — have one thing in common: All place App State among the best schools in the nation, and the Southeast, for 2024–25.

  • UNC System Board of Governors approves App State's new Doctor of Nursing Practice hybrid program
    UNC System Board of Governors approves App State's new Doctor of Nursing Practice hybrid program

    In fall 2026, App State will launch a new Doctor of Nursing Practice program, designed to educate family practice nurse practitioners and respond to health care provider shortages, especially in rural areas. The program has been approved by the UNC System Board of Governors.

  • Dr. Heather Hulburt Norris named chancellor of Appalachian State University
    Dr. Heather Hulburt Norris named chancellor of Appalachian State University

    On Feb. 27, 2025, the UNC Board of Governors elected Dr. Heather Hulburt Norris as the next leader of Appalachian State University. Norris has served as interim chancellor since April 2024. Her career has been characterized by her strong, collaborative leadership and service to both App State and the greater community, and she brings more than two decades of academic leadership, vision and expertise to her role as chancellor.

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App State Reflects: One Year After Helene

App State Reflects: One Year After Helene

When Hurricane Helene damaged and disrupted Western North Carolina in Sept. 2024, it also revealed the incredible strength of our communities. Learn more about App State's role in the ongoing recovery, and discover how our community is building back stronger, together.

Find your sustainability

Find your sustainability

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.

What's in App State's future?

What's in App State's future?

We're enhancing the App State Experience with a stronger physical infrastructure and five-year goals that further empower human potential. Get the full picture by visiting the App State's Future website, which details our growth and change.

App State's School of Graduate Studies

App State's School of Graduate Studies

Join a diverse and dynamic community that elevates your dreams and champions your capacity for real impact with life-changing opportunities for research and exploration.

Fall 2025 Commencement  Friday, Dec. 12, 2025

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  • Education Career Fair
    Oct
    24
    Education Career Fair
    October 24, 2025
    12:00 pm - 2:30 pm

    Appalachian State University’s Education Career Fair connects school administrators, superintendents, and other employers from the field of education seeking to hire candidates in education and related fields with talented students and alumni from our Reich College of Education. The Education Career Fair allows a variety of education-related employers to network and discuss career options and employment opportunities with a talented pool of participants from App State, including approximately 150 student teachers graduating in December 2025 and students and alumni looking to network and explore careers in the education industry.

  • Fall 2025 Open House (Hickory campus)
    Oct
    25
    Fall 2025 Open House (Hickory campus)
    October 25, 2025

    Open House is your opportunity to learn more about App State. Meet faculty and current students, tour campus, and learn more about financial aid, scholarships, the admissions process, and what student life at App State is really like.

  • Day of Service
    Oct
    25
    Day of Service
    October 25, 2025
    9:00 am - 3:00 pm

    Please join us for our monthly Day of Service as we continue our longer-term cleanup efforts around the High Country and other work. Get to know the High Country by stepping out into the Boone community and donating a few hours of your time at a local non-profit. Lunch and transportation will be provided.

  • “The Cigarette Surfboard” – Film Screening w/Discussion and Q and A to follow
    Oct
    28
    “The Cigarette Surfboard” – Film Screening w/Discussion and Q and A to follow
    October 28, 2025
    5:30 pm

    This documentary focuses on creative solutions to environmental issues and climate change, while offering hope and student empowerment through individual action toward global protection. After a young designer realizes that a surfboard – which he crafted from thousands of littered cigarette butts picked up off California beaches – could captivate the eyes of millions across the globe, he decides to use it as the impetus to do something more.

  • Orlando
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    Orlando
    Oct 29 - Nov 7, 2025

    An adaptation of the “longest and most charming love letter in literature,” written by Virginia Woolf for her lover, Vita Sackville-West, “Orlando” is a theatrical, wild, fantastical trip through space, time and gender. Orlando’s adventures begin as a young man, when he serves as courtier to Queen Elizabeth. Adapted by Sarah Ruhl.

  • Christy Shi Day: Listening for the Path: How Nervous Systems Shape the Way We Lead, Learn, & Live
    Oct
    30
    Christy Shi Day: Listening for the Path: How Nervous Systems Shape the Way We Lead, Learn, & Live
    October 30, 2025
    4:00 pm

    Join us for an inspiring talk with Christy Shi Day, trauma-informed disaster response advocate and strategic facilitator, on how nervous system awareness shapes leadership, resilience and meaningful change. This event is free and open to all faculty, staff, students and the WNC community.

  • Boone BOO!
    Oct
    31
    Boone BOO!
    October 31, 2025
    5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

    Visual artist and Professor of Drawing at Clemson University, Kathleen Thum whose exhibition, “Considering Carbon,” is on view at the Turchin Center, will be joined by Tom Hansell, award-winning documentary filmmaker and Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, and George Santucci, Sustainability and Special Projects Manager for the Town of Boone, to share their creative work and discuss issues of sustainability about fossil fuels and carbon.

  • “Stitching Strength” ALS Documentary Film Premiere
    Oct
    31
    “Stitching Strength” ALS Documentary Film Premiere
    October 31, 2025
    5:30 pm

    App State’s Beaver College of Health Sciences is sponsoring a premiere of “Stitching Strength,” a 38-minute documentary featuring Duke University Medical Center neurologist Dr. Rick Bedlack and his unconventional approach to treating and inspiring patients who have Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or ALS. Dr. Bedlack plans to attend the event and host a Q and A after the film.

  • Fall 2025 Open House (Boone campus)
    Nov
    8
    Fall 2025 Open House (Boone campus)
    November 8, 2025

    Open House is your opportunity to learn more about App State. Meet faculty and current students, tour campus, and learn more about financial aid, scholarships, the admissions process, and what student life at App State is really like.

  • Kathryn Kirkpatrick
    Nov
    12
    Kathryn Kirkpatrick
    November 12, 2025
    6:00 pm

    Kathryn Kirkpatrick is the author of eight collections of poetry, including three recipients of the NC Poetry Society’s Brockman-Campbell award. “The Fisher Queen: New and Selected Poems” (Salmon, 2019) received the NC Literary and Historical Society’s Roanoke-Chowan Poetry Prize. She has lived in the Blue Ridge Mountains for many years, where she teaches environmental literature, animal studies, Irish studies, and creative writing as Professor of English at App State.

  • Cirque Kalabanté: Afrique en Cirque
    Nov
    12
    Cirque Kalabanté: Afrique en Cirque
    November 12, 2025
    7:30 pm

    “Afrique en Cirque” is a show by Yamoussa Bangoura, inspired by daily life in Guinea. This performance shares the beauty, youth and artistry of African culture. A colorful show beyond its scenery, costumes and staging, it makes any theatre vibrate with energy and represents the strength, agility and life’s joys of young Africans. The audience will see acrobats execute gravity-defying moves and human pyramids, accompanied by the contemporary sounds of live Afro-Jazz, percussion, and kora. Welcome to the universe of Kalabanté Productions, and prepare for an unforgettable journey.

  • Carole Moore McLeod Entrepreneur Summit
    Nov
    14
    Carole Moore McLeod Entrepreneur Summit
    November 14, 2025
    9:30 am - 6:30 pm

    Join us for a day of grit, reinvention, and purpose-driven success stories that will challenge your thinking and energize your next move. This year’s lineup features Natalie Johnson, Paul Storm, and Gaurav “G” Patel, entrepreneurs and leaders who know firsthand what it means to face setbacks, rethink everything, and come back stronger. Their stories span industries and continents, but all center on the power of staying grounded, thinking boldly, and leading with clarity and conviction.

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