Everything about Appalachian State University totally explained
Appalachian State University is a comprehensive (
Master's L),
public,
coeducational university located in
Boone,
North Carolina,
United States. Appalachian State, referred to as
App State,
ASU, or
App, is the sixth largest institution in the
University of North Carolina system. The university has been ranked among the top 15
Southern Master's Universities since the
U.S. News and World Report's
America's Best Colleges Guide began publication in 1986. In 2001, Appalachian was recognized by
TIME Magazine as a
College of the Year.
History
Appalachian State University began in the summer of 1899 when a group of citizens in
Watauga County, under the leadership of D.D. Dougherty and B.B. Dougherty, began a movement to establish a good school in Boone. Land was donated by D.B. Dougherty, father of the leaders in the enterprise, and by Mr. J.F. Hardin. On this site a wood frame building was erected by contributions from other citizens of the town and county.
In the fall of 1899 Mr. Dauphin D. Dougherty and Blanford B. Dougherty, acting as co-principals, began the school which was named
Watauga Academy. These co-principals operated for four years until the school was made a state institution.
In 1903, after interest in the school had spread to the adjoining counties, Hon. W.C. Newland of Caldwell County introduced a bill in the
North Carolina House of Representatives to make this a state school, with an appropriation for maintenance and for building. The measure was adopted and passed to the Senate. Captain E.F. Lovill of Watauga, R.B. White of Franklin County, Clyde Hoey of Cleveland County, E. J. Justice of McDowell County spoke in favor of the measure. On March 9th, 1903, the bill became law, and the
Appalachian Training School for Teachers was established.
The new trustees met in June 1903 and elected Mr. B.B. Dougherty, Superintendent and D.D. Dougherty, Principal. For twenty-two years there was a period of steady growth, academic development, and valuable service to the State. In 1925, the Legislature changed the name to the
Appalachian State Normal School and appropriated additional funding for maintenance and permanent improvement. Superintendent B.B. Dougherty was elected President, and Principal D.D. Dougherty was elected Business Manager and Treasurer. Four years later, in 1929, the Legislature again changed the name to
Appalachian State Teachers College, increased the appropriation for the maintenance and authorized the College to confer “such degrees as are usually conferred by American Colleges.” Following the accession the college property had reached a value of more than $2,000,000. Dr. B.B. Dougherty was continued as President. Professor D.D. Dougherty was continued as Business Manager and Treasurer, but he didn't enjoy the larger institution for long. He died June 10th, 1929, the very first day of registration for the new college.
In 1930, the first four year class was graduated. That year 158 young men and young women were graduated in June and approximately 80 more graduated at the August Commencement.
In 1948 a Graduate School was formed. Enrollment was up to 1,100 students, including 23 graduate students, with 65 faculty. President B.B Dougherty retired after 56 years of serving the school in 1955. Dr. J.D. Rankin became interim president until Dr. William H. Plemmons was installed.
Appalachian offered programs in areas other than teaching in 1965. This change led to a more appropriate name for the school in 1967, Appalachian State University. Afterwards, three degree granting undergraduate colleges were created: Arts and Sciences, Fine and Applied Arts, and Education. In 1972 Appalachian State became part of the
University of North Carolina system.
Campus
Located in the
Blue Ridge Mountains of northwestern
North Carolina, Appalachian State University has the highest elevation of any
university in the
United States east of the
Mississippi River, at an elevation of about 3,215 feet (980 m) above sea level. (The University, as well as the town of Boone, favor advertising the elevation of the University's Kidd Brewer Stadium, commonly referred to as, "The Rock," at 3,333 feet. In a recent land survey of the University's newly constructed baseball complex, the elevation of field surpasses "The Rock" by over 150 feet measuring up to roughly 3,485 feet. The university's main campus is in downtown
Boone, a town that supports a population of 14,900, compared to a total ASU enrollment of 15,117 students.
The center of campus is considered to be Sanford Mall, an open grassy area between the student union, dining halls, and library; students play amateur sports on the Mall, read on benches at its edges, or use the area for
free speech. Rivers Street, a thoroughfare for town and university traffic, essentially divides the campus into east and west sections. The eastern side of campus includes Sanford Mall, Plemmons Student Union, and Belk Library, along with two communities of residence halls, Eastridge and Pinnacle. The campus on the west side has Trivette Dining Hall, the Quinn Recreation Center, Kidd Brewer Stadium, and Stadium Heights and Yosef Hollow, the two remaining residence hall communities. The east and west sides of campus are connected by two underground tunnels that travel under Rivers Street and several crosswalks through campus. At the north end of campus, Bodenheimer Drive crosses over River Street and leads to the Appalachian Heights (an apartment-style residence hall open only to upperclassmen), Mountaineer Apartments (housing for non-traditional students), the Chancellor's House, The Living Learning Center, and the Broyhill Inn and Conference Center.
New to campus is the
Carol Grotnes Belk Library & Information Commons
, commonly referred to as Belk Library, which opened in a newly-constructed five story building September 2005 in the former parking lot of Whitener Hall. The Belk Library features computer stations and study tables on every floor,
wireless computer access on all floors, group study rooms, conference and viewing rooms, and lockers available for checkout. The Library holds varying collections, including the university's archives, an Instructional Materials Center for teachers, and the
W.L Eury Appalachian Collection for regional studies. Besides serving university patrons, the library also serves as a public library for the local community, although circulation is available only to registered patrons.
The
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, located on the edge of main campus, is the university's visual art center. The Turchin Center is the largest visual arts center in northwestern North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, and southwestern Virginia; it displays rotating exhibits indoors and outdoors, some exhibits being culturally specific to the Appalachians, and offers community outreach programs through art courses.
Farthing Auditorium is widely accepted as the cultural center of Boone, NC and hosts a wide variety of cultural events.
Additionally, the university provides two off-campus living facilities for use by students, faculty, and alumni. They are the
Appalachian Loft located in midtown Manhattan, New York City and the
Appalachian House located in Washington, D.C.
The Appalachian Learning Alliance has offered off-campus classes to non-traditional college students for more than twenty years. Classes are offered at ten community college campuses located throughout western North Carolina. Most recently, in January 2007 Appalachian State launched a program offering full-time, day time, off-campus programming for students in Elementary Education. Housed at the Appalachian State University Center on the campus of Caldwell Community College and Technical Institute
(External Link), students are able to receive training equivalent to that received on-campus. Since the first cohort began, two others in Elementary Education have been started. In the fall of 2008, Appalachian State will offer full-time day time programming in criminal justice, psychology, communication, and business management to be offered at the Hickory Metro Higher Education Center
(External Link) in Catawba County.
Student Life
Students at ASU enjoy a variety of outdoor activities. The mountains offer snowboarding, skiing, tubing, rock climbing, hiking, rafting, camping, and fishing on and around the Blue Ridge Parkway.
ASU also supports many clubs and organizations such as Greek organizations, academic and diversity clubs, and sports clubs.
ACT office supports community service in the area.
ASU also offers off campus courses
(External Link) to students living off the mountain. Students work in cohorts and create family-like relationships. Off campus programs offer students the ability to maintain family and careers while working towards a degree.
Beginning in the Fall of 2008, new distance-education, full-time undergraduate programs will be available in Advertising, Criminal justice, Management, and Psychology.
Greek Life
Greek life on Appalachian State University's campus is made up of 14 fraternities and 7 sororities. There are several events that the Greeks hold each year. Lots of these raise money for the surrounding community. Such events include lip sync which raises money for the red cross and also greekwide community service events. Individual sororities and fraternities all have major philanthropies that hold certain events each year. Each organization strives to better the community and also form strong bonds with their members. Sorororites and fraternities mix with each other at social functions and also encourage a strong panhellenic unity. Sororities on campus include Alpha Phi, Kappa Delta, Sigma Kappa, Alpha Delta Pi, Delta Zeta, Phi Mu and Chi Omega. Fraternities on campus include: Delta Chi
(External Link), Delta Tau Delta, Pi Kappa Alpha, Pi Kappa Phi, Theta Chi, Tau Kappa Epsilon, Kappa Alpha Order, Sigma Nu, Kappa Sigma, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Lamda Chi Alpha and Alpha Sigma Phi.
The Arts
Organization
A Board of Directors elected by the
University of North Carolina's Board of Governors establishes broad, university policy but delegates daily operation of Appalachian State to a
chancellor. The chancellor likewise delegates some duties to several vice-chancellors, as approved by the directors, in a
cabinet-like organization, or other administrative offices of the chancellor. These administrative offices are advised by several university committees on the needs of campus constituents, as represented by a Faculty Senate, Staff Council and
Student Government Association.
Presidents
- Dr. B.B. Dougherty (1899-1955)
- Dr. J.D. Rankin (1955, Interim)
- Dr. William H. Plemmons (1955-1969)
- Dr. Herbert Wey (1969-1971)
Chancellors
Dr. Herbert Wey (1971-1979)
Dr. Cratis Williams (1975, Acting)
Dr. John E. Thomas (1979-1993)
Dr. Francis T. Borkowski (1993-2003)
Provost Harvey Durham (2003-2004, Interim)
Dr. Kenneth E. Peacock (2004-present)
Academics
Rankings and recognition
Recognized by TIME Magazine as a College of the Year in 2001.
Ranked 5th overall among regional public comprehensive universities in the South and 12th overall among public and private universities in the South in U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges 2007. and the first Division I school in modern times to claim three straight undisputed national titles.
In a milestone for ASU athletics, the Appalachian State football team played their season opener at the University of Michigan in front of the largest crowd to ever witness an ASU football game on September 1, 2007. Appalachian State beat Michigan 34-32 and became the first Division I FCS (I-AA) football team to defeat a Division I FBS (I-A) team ranked in the AP poll.
On August 30th, 2008 the 2007 FCS champions Appalachian State will face the 2007 FBS champions LSU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana at 8 PM for their opening game.
School songs
Fight song
The ASU fight song, Hi Hi Yikas, is sung to the tune of the German folk song Bergvagabunden (Mountain Vagabond).
Hi Hi Yikas
Hi-Hi-y-ike-us
Nobody like us,
We are the
mountaineers,
mountaineers,
mountaineers,
Always a-winning
Always a-grinning
Always a-feeling fine
You bet, hey
Go Apps!
Fight Apps!
Go, fight, win Apps! ('win Apps!' is usually changed to 'kick ass!')
Listen
Alma mater
The song, Cherished Vision, is the Appalachian alma mater.
Cherished Vision
Cherished Vision of the Southland
Alma Mater in the Hills
Let us point our minds to wisdom
Til the truth our spirit thrills
Appalachian Alma Mater, through our heart the joy and pride
Lead us ever, lead us onward
Vanguard of the heroes' side
Listen
Events and news
An Appalachian Summer Festival, hosted by the university, has been named one of the "Top 20 Events in the Southeast" by the Southeast Tourism Society for more than a decade.
In 2004, a committee for the Appalachian Family Caravan tour created a promotional video titled "Hot Hot Hot," shown throughout the area by Chancellor Kenneth E. Peacock. The video became an inadvertent internet phenomenon and was featured on VH1’s Web Junk 20 program in early 2006.(External Link) The video was never intended to promote Appalachian State to anyone but the Family Caravan, much less as a recruiting tool for prospective students.(External Link) The video is no longer used by the university, due to student and alumni protests.
In 2001, MTV's program Road Rules visited ASU to produce an episode called Campus Crawl, aired on-campus during an annual, winter student swimming event called the "Polar Plunge". The show's participants also crossed a high-wire strung between Coltrane and Gardner Halls.
Notable alumni
Jennifer E. Alley - Former head coach and first female women’s basketball coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (External Link)
Eric Church - Country music singer (External Link)
Dexter Coakley - NFL Dallas Cowboys & St. Louis Rams (Linebacker)
Howard Coble - Longtime Republican 6th District US Congressman from Greensboro, NC
Stephen J. Dubner - Writer, co-author of Freakonomics
Charles Frazier - Novelist, author of Cold Mountain
Alvin Gentry - NBA Phoenix Suns Assistant Coach/Former Head Coach, Detroit Pistons, Los Angeles Clippers
Franklin Graham - Evangelist and missionary, son of Billy Graham
Dino Hackett - NFL Kansas City Chiefs (Linebacker)
Mary Jayne Harrelson - Track athlete, two-time NCAA Outdoors 1500 m Champion (External Link)
Byron Hill - Country and pop music songwriter
Jason Hunter - NFL Green Bay Packers (Defensive End)
Glenn McCoy - Executive Director, San Francisco Ballet and former Advertising Manager, Metropolitan Opera (External Link)
Melissa Morrison-Howard - Two-time Olympic hurdler bronze medalist (’00 & ’04)
Marques Murrell - NFL New York Jets (Linebacker)
Ron Prince - Head Football Coach, Kansas State University
Douglas Sarine - Co-creater of Ask a Ninja
John Settle - NFL Atlanta Falcons (Running Back)
Mary Ellen Snodgrass - Author and two-time New York Public Library award winner (External Link)
Chris Swecker - Head of Corporate Security for Bank of America and former Assistant Director, FBI (External Link) (External Link)
Gary Wheeler - Film director and producer (External Link)
Daniel Wilcox - NFL Baltimore Ravens (Tight End)
J. Bradley Wilson - Chairman, University of North Carolina Board of Governors (External Link)
Gene Wooten - Nashville dobro player and session musician (External Link)
Don Beaver - Healthcare Mogul, Owner of the Charlotte Knights (MiLB AAA), New Orleans Zephyrs (MiLB AAA), Hickory Crawdads (MiLB A), partial owner and member of the board of directors for the Pittsburg Pirates. (External Link)
Dexter Jackson - Wide Receiver drafted in the Second Round (58th overrall) in the 2008 Draft by the Tampa Bay.
Corey Lynch - Safety drafted in the Sixth round (177th overall) by Cincinnati. Also the son-in-law of Franklin Graham.Further Information
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