As a premier public undergraduate institution in the Southeast, App State offers small class sizes that allow for high-quality student and faculty interaction, excellent undergraduate research opportunities and service experiences in our local and regional communities.
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.
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.
University of North Carolina System President Peter Hans has named Dr. Heather Hulburt Norris as the interim chancellor for Appalachian State University. She succeeds Sheri Everts, who stepped down as chancellor after 10 years. The appointment became effective April 19.
After 10 years as App State’s Chancellor, Dr. Sheri Everts is stepping down. Under her leadership, enrollment exceeded 21,000, she secured more than $550 million for state-of-the art residence halls, academic facilities and athletics facilities, and opened a campus in Hickory.
Several national publications, including U.S. News & World Report, The Princeton Review and Forbes magazine, have named App State among the best schools in the nation — and the Southeast — for 2023–24, recognizing the university for its academics, innovation, value and more.
The Princeton Review, U.S. News & World Report, CEO Magazine and Fortune magazine have named App State’s Walker College of Business and its Master of Business Administration program among the best in the nation, Southeast and world for 2022–23 and 2023–24.
The Office of Sustainability invites you to play our waste sorting game in the Roess Dining Hall on every last Wednesday of the month. As you play, you'll learn if items can be recycled, added to the compost bin, or simply put in the trash. Winners of the game will receive a raffle ticket which will put you in the running for a swag bag with Office of Sustainability merchandise. We will also have free stickers, buttons, and reusable items. Come learn how to sort your waste!
The Office of Sustainability, along with AppDocs and University Forum, invites you to join us for two feature films followed by a discussion with our guest filmmaker, Garrett Martin. "The River Runs On" follows conservationists throughout southern Appalachia as they struggle to manage two of the most important national forests in America - the Pisgah and Nantahala. "Unbounded" illustrates that the future of the country rests on the preservation and protection of its breath-taking natural spaces.
NC Reads is North Carolina Humanities’ statewide book club that annually features five books that explore issues of racial, social, and gender equality and the history and culture of North Carolina. NC Humanities will host virtual monthly book club events where participants will hear from guest speakers, including book authors and topic experts. The Office of Diversity and University Libraries will host book club events and watch parties in conjunction with the scheduled NC Humanities' events.
The Rape Aggression Defense (RAD) System is dedicated to teaching female-identifying participants defensive concepts and techniques against various types of assault by utilizing easy, effective, and proven self-defense and martial arts tactics. Our system of realistic defense will provide participants with the knowledge to make an educated decision about resistance. Certified RAD instructors teach this course.
This panel serves to honor the 1.5 million lives lost in the 1915 Armenian Genocide. April 24 marks the 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and the official Day of Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide. Globally recognized as committed by the Ottoman Empire and later the Turkish state, the genocide is denied by the perpetrators to this day. Join students and community members in a discussion of Armenian and Turkish relationships today. Panel members include Dr. Anatoly Isaenko, Dr. Neşe Kaya Özhan, Max Shirikjian ’23 and Ashot Gabrielyan.
Carrie White is a teenage outcast who longs to fit in. At school, she’s bullied by the popular crowd, and virtually invisible to everyone else. At home, she's dominated by her loving but cruelly controlling mother. What none of them know is that Carrie’s just discovered she’s got a special power, and if pushed too far, she’s not afraid to use it. Produced by Special Arrangement with Concord Theatricals.
Join the Office of Sustainability to learn more about all things sustainable, including info on our Regalia Reuse program and to take the Sustainability Graduation Pledge.
Our climate change anxieties have never been more overwhelming—but they’re also the key to saving the planet. Britt Wray shows us how to embrace our complicated, messy emotions about the climate crisis. Her research on the psychological toll of climate change, outlined in her brilliant book Generation Dread, reveals a surprising truth: that acknowledging and dealing with climate anxiety helps us find purpose, avoid burnout, and solve both mental health and ecological problems.
Commencement is the ultimate celebration of one of the most significant accomplishments of our students' lifetimes. We are proud to honor your achievement.
An Appalachian Summer Festival is an annual arts festival presenting and producing programs in music, theatre, dance, film and visual arts. The festival forges a unique national identity through artistic excellence, innovative programming, commissioning new works, educational opportunities, and by bringing the most accomplished and respected creative and performing artists from around the world to the Appalachian State University community.
Grammy Award winner and Grand Ole Opry member Brad Paisley will perform live at Kidd Brewer Stadium! Brad Paisley has earned his place in country music history as one of the genre’s most talented and decorated male solo artists. For more than 20 years, his songwriting and unmatched showmanship have won him numerous awards, including three GRAMMYs, two American Music Awards, 15 Academy of Country Music Awards, and 14 Country Music Association Awards.
Join Yadkin Riverkeeper Brian Fannon and other public history experts for guided tours of the Hickory Ridge Living History Museum, a site with six historic, furnished cabins that recreate the atmosphere of eighteenth and nineteenth century mountain communities. Learn what rural life was like for pioneers in the High Country.