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In the Media: Hospitality professor helps elevate rural tourism across North Carolina through UPLIFT
Aug 20, 2025

UPLIFT, short for Understanding, Planning, Linking, Innovating, Financing, and Talent, is a nonprofit initiative that launched in 2021 to em...

Student members of SHRM at App State

SHRM earns outstanding chapter award from national organization
Aug 8, 2025

Appalachian State University's Student Chapter of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM-ASC) has earned the 2024–2025 Outstanding Chapter ...

Management students compete in International Collegiate Business Strategy Competition in California
Jun 5, 2025

Appalachian State University students participated in the 2025 International Collegiate Business Strategy Competition, hosted by California State...

The April 30 event is at NoDa Brewery & Taproom on 150 W. 32nd St. from 4:30-6:00 p.m.

App on Tap for Charlotte-area App State alumni
Apr 9, 2025

The Department of Management at Appalachian State University invites Charlotte-area Walker College of Business alumni to "App on Tap," a networki...

App State students are pictured in a fermentation sciences lab on the Boone campus, working under the direction of Dr. Folarin Oguntoyinbo, associate professor and research mentor in the Department of Chemistry and Fermentation Sciences.

App State earns R2 designation for high research activity and doctorate production
Feb 14, 2025

University’s commitment to applied research benefits students, communities and industriesBOONE, N.C. — Appalachian State University has received a...

From left are Luke Alsborg, Nathan Haliday, Benjamin Musser and Kayleigh Torres

"Most ever" management majors to participate in Holland Fellows
Jan 27, 2025

Of the 12 Appalachian State University students named 2025 Holland Fellows, four are management majors—the most ever from any cohort in the nea...

The first week-long ALA expedition was in Anchorage, Kenai Fjords National Park, and Seward, Alaska, in May 2024.

Students build leadership skills in Alaska through App State ALA — Adventure Leadership Academy
Nov 11, 2024

The Department of Management at Appalachian State University has launched an Adventure Leadership Academy (ALA) for students to develop leadership and...

In the News: Charlotte Talks gets behind the wheel with NC road trips, summer traveling tips
Jul 2, 2024

Dr. Carol Kline, Appalachian State University professor and director of the university's Hospitality & Tourism Management ...

Photo of UPLIFT program

App State and UPLIFT partners will work through Smithsonian Institute to develop festivals and tourism experiences
Sep 19, 2023

The Walker College of Business is at the heart of a movement to develop community-based tourism in North Carolina that was recently featured...

Davison to serve as assistant department chair of management

Davison to serve as assistant department chair of management
Jul 13, 2023

Dr. Kristl Davison has been named assistant chair of the Department of Management in the Walker College of Business at Appalachian State Uni...