BOONE—David Huntley has been named director of Watauga College at Appalachian State University. [more]

BOONE-Appalachian State University is one of 146 schools receiving “Best in the Southeast” designation in the 2007 Princeton Review’s online “The Best 361 Colleges” guide. [more]

BOONE—Appalachian State University has received $33,986 from the University of North Carolina General Administration to implement a program to help faculty hone their grant-writing skills. [more]

Wayne

Lambert and Richard McKevitt from Appalachian State University’s Housing

Operations hang a

welcome sign on Lovill Hall in preparation for the arrival of new students on campus.

(Appalachian photo by University Photographer Mike Rominger)

BOONE—”Freakonomics” co-author Stephen Dubner and N.C. Poet Laureate Kathryn Stripling Byer headline this fall’s Hughlene Bostian Frank Visiting Writers Series at Appalachian State University. [more]

BOONE—Award-winning author Stephen J. Dubner returns to Appalachian State University Sept. 7 at 10 a.m. as keynote speaker for Convocation. [more]

BOONE—Appalachian State University has retained its fifth-place ranking among the South’s top public master’s universities and is listed 12th in the Best Universities-Master’s in the South category in U.S. News & World Report’s 2007 America’s Best Colleges Guide. [more]

BOONE— Joni Petschauer has been named director of the newly established ARC Higher Education Project for College Access and Student Success, based at Appalachian.

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BOONE—Carter Hammett-McGarry has been named interim director of Freshman Learning Communities at Appalachian State University. She began her new duties Aug. 14. [more]