Working in a college town in the mountains can spoil you for life. Boone, North Carolina, is a college town in the best sense—a place where people say hello on the street and you have a vibrant downtown a block from campus.
We may not live in a big city, but Boone’s smaller size and surrounding landscape seem to foster the creativity of our faculty, staff and students. If we need a city-fix, we can get one easily enough with a drive “down the mountain,” as we say. In fact, we make an effort to do so. Maintaining connections with the art and design world is critical for us.
Our department is accredited by NASAD and has over 700 undergraduate majors, over 40 full-time faculty members and a support staff of four. Appalachian State University is a member institution of the seventeen-campus University of North Carolina. The university has approximately 19,000 students, primarily in bachelors and masters programs in both liberal arts and applied fields. Appalachian has both a traditional residential campus and a variety of distance education programs.
Open Faculty Positions
Art History
Graphic Communications Management
Assistant/Associate Professor - Graphic Communication Management
Thomas W. Reese Distinguished Professor – Graphic Communications Management
Chronicle of the Island
Adri Pritchard
Student Employment
Job openings for students can be found in the Handshake section of the university’s Student Employment website.
Promotion and Tenure Guidelines
The faculty that supported me were generous with their time in listening to me and my project ideas, gave me opportunities to grow as an artist and professional, and were incredibly supportive in guiding me towards pathways to expand as an artist and educator.
Sarah Jayne Kennelly
