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Dr. Dominique Hammonds receives award.

Dr. Hammonds Receives Devoted Service Award from NCCA
Mar 6, 2023

Dr. Dominique Hammonds, director of the clinical mental health counseling graduate program and associate professor in the Department of Human Developm...

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Students and Faculty Present at the 2023 North Carolina Association for Research in Education Conference
Mar 6, 2023

Reich College of Education (RCOE) students and faculty members gave presentations at the 2023 North Carolina Association for Research in Education (NC...

Watauga County Schools Professional Development Day

RCOE Faculty Lead Professional Development for Watauga County Schools Teachers
Feb 28, 2023

Both in the Department of Reading Education and Special Education, Dr. Kindel Nash, associate professor and Spangler Distinguished Professor of Early ...

Bloom Where You Are: Climate Resilience in our Communities

Bloom Where You Are: Educating for Sustainability in Guatemala & Appalachia
Feb 24, 2023

Marleny Rosales-Meda, Dr. María Susana Hermes, Rafael Coy Choocoj, and Dr. Anne Fanatico will present, “Bloom Where You Are: Climate Resilience in ...

App State Chief Diversity Officer, Jamie Parson, left in background, and App State alumnus Hudson Miller ’21, right in background, read “First Rain” to students at the App State Academy at Elkin in December 2022. The reading was a celebration of Jewish heritage. Miller was the former president of App State’s Jewish fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Pi. Photo submitted

App State Office of Diversity brings monthly read-alouds to lab schools
Feb 23, 2023

This academic year, App State’s Office of Diversity has begun monthly read-alouds with mini-Mountaineers at the university’s two la...

Rachel Wilson and Jennifer Luetkemeyer

Mentoring Initiatives in the RCOE Continue to Grow Under New Leadership
Feb 10, 2023

Dr. Rachel Wilson, a professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, has been named the Reich College of Education’s (RCOE) Faculty Fello...

Kinyata Adams Brown Receives NASPA’s Bobby E. Leach Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Award
Feb 8, 2023

Kinyata Adams Brown, associate dean for engagement, diversity, and inclusive excellence at Winthrop University, was selected by a national student aff...

Hertford County welcomes Dr. Pratt as new superintendent
Feb 8, 2023

A ‘meet and greet’ event was held at Ahoskie Elementary School on Thursday, Jan. 26 to officially welcome Dr. Jesse Pratt as he steps into the rol...

Mark Poarch named NC Community College President of the Year Feb 3, 2023 0
Feb 8, 2023

Caldwell County native Mark Poarch was recently announced as winner of the 2022-2023 North Carolina Community College System President of the Year awa...

Counselor of the Year Meredith Draughn

App State alum Meredith Lindsey Draughn ’15 is 2023 National School Counselor of the Year
Feb 7, 2023

Appalachian State University alumna Meredith Lindsey Draughn ’15 is the 2023 National School Counselor of the Year — giving her the opportunity to...