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Quality Enhancement Plan initiative focuses on climate literacy
Quality Enhancement Plan initiative focuses on climate literacy
Samantha Salvador, Reporter • April 17, 2024

Every decade, universities have to go through a reaccreditation process to ensure students receive quality education, according to the Higher Learning Commission. The Quality Enhancement Plan is a resource universities use to improve Student Learning Outcomes. App State’s previous QEP focused on Global Learning, requiring students to take a course...

Guest speaker brings solutions to the contaminated water problem in Gaza to App State
April 11, 2024

App State and the Department of Anthropology welcomed Salah El Sadi to speak April 5 about his work and efforts toward solving the contaminated...

Dating safety awareness in a digital age with RAINN
April 9, 2024

Editors note: This article contains language regarding sexual assault.  During their time in college, 13% of undergraduate and graduate students...

County tax system results in Boone losing millions of dollars annually
April 8, 2024

In September 2007, Watauga County began construction on a new high school, a project that ultimately led to a change in the distribution of sales...

‘Save Our Voices’ protest calls for action among administrators
April 6, 2024

On Wednesday, students rallied together during the “Save Our Voices” peaceful protest hosted by App State College Democrats on Sanford Mall...

Mountaineer baseball falls to Western Carolina

April 15, 2024

The Mountaineers returned to Boone to take on Troy in a three-game series this past weekend. After the Friday game was canceled due to inclement weather,...

April 15, 2024

Mountaineer softball traveled to Conway, South Carolina for a weekend series against Coastal Carolina.  App State won the first game of the series...

April 14, 2024

Head coach Dustin Kerns gained two commitments over the weekend to help rebuild his roster. Guard Jason Clarke Jr. announced his decision Saturday that...

April 10, 2024

App State baseball defeated the UNC-Asheville Bulldogs 8-7 Tuesday night using a two-run RBI single in the bottom of the ninth.  Senior pitcher Trey...

Girl in Red bares all in ‘I’m Doing It Again, Baby!’

April 15, 2024

The Ojibwe singer-songwriter Annie Humphrey opened for Indigo Girls at the Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts on April 12 with a spare set. With three...

April 15, 2024

Alexander Hooker’s journey to old-time folk music started gradually, then suddenly. He has been a professor of Appalachian Strings here at App State...

April 12, 2024

A couple hours before their debut performance, Educated Guess hung out backstage at the Appalachian Theatre of the High Country to share their story and...

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