Help your students stay healthy this holiday season by encouraging them to attend one of our Holiday Flu Clinics! Free flu shots will be available on:
These clinics are convenient for keeping the flu away during busy holidays. Let's keep our campus healthy and thriving!
Look at the professional development and staff well-being opportunities taking place over the next few weeks and months. Here are some highlights:
You will use two platforms to complete Open Enrollment:
Basic Scala Management System, Friday, November 1st @ 9:30am, 218 Anne Belk Hall, CETLSS Conference room
Career Pathways, November 6th-8th (3 day workshop), 9:00am-3:00pm, Roan Mtn. and Three Top Mtn., PSU
SA November Monthly Meetup, FizzEd, 260 Howard Street, Boone, November 13th, 11:30am. Please sign up with Traci here.
Refer to our Professional Development & Staff Well-being website for additonal events and programs.
The Civic Literacy Initiative fosters a nonpartisan, civically engaged, and informed campus community. Through Student Affairs and Academic Affairs collaboration, we will help students examine complex questions and learn to discuss them with confidence and respect for differences in thought, belief, opinion, and background. With a strong commitment to student success, freedom of expression, institutional neutrality, academic freedom, and nondiscrimination, we support all students as they develop into leaders who can skillfully navigate complex conversations, increase democratic engagement, and build strong community ties through experiential learning. In doing so, the goal is to foster a university community that is welcoming to all and an academic culture of collaboration and respect.
The Office of Community-Engaged Leadership is excited to announce that in addition to the 11 volunteer members of our AppVotes Voter Coalition, we have hired 13 students to serve as Civic Literacy Fellows within the coalition!
The goal of the coalition is to increase civic literacy on campus every year through activities such as educational presentations, voter registration programs, and getting people to the polls. The Student Fellow role is a paid position that plays a crucial role in organizing and leading initiatives aimed at promoting civic literacy and engagement among App State students.
Please welcome our new fellows:
● Aidan Beauregard
● Nick Jackson
● Dillon Smart
● Ava Zellman
● May Currens
● Rian Mofu
● Isabella Lebron
● Jones Graf
● Abby Gonzalez Zavala
● Artie Bradley
● Andrew Myers
● Sofie Mascellino
● Hunter Messick
One of the main initiatives that the Civic Literacy Fellows will be working on this semester is our
Civic Literacy Presentations. With the election coming up, we have received a few questions
about updated voting laws and info that students (and all NC residents) will need to know.
CEL/AppVotes is a hub that students can always come to with questions about voting -
however, we know that we are not the only people who will get questions about these topics.
To help answer these questions and equip you with the information you'll need this Fall, we are
offering Civic Literacy Presentations for classrooms & groups/organizations! These
presentations range from 15-40 minutes, depending on which you select. To see all of the
options and to request a presentation, click here.
The 2025 Student Orientation Undergraduate Leader (SOUL) Recruitment Process is underway! We are excited to grow our student orientation team and want to connect with incredible student leaders like YOU. Here is some pertinent information about our SOUL recruitment process. Here is a link to the full SOUL position description.
What is a SOUL? 📣
SOULs are dedicated to ensuring all incoming first-year and transfer students feel welcome as they transition to life at Appalachian State University. This group of passionate App State students are excited to help New Mountaineers by assisting with course registration, navigating our campus community, sharing institution and community resources, and fostering connections to peers, faculty, and staff. Here is an overview of the responsibilities of a SOUL:
Benefit$ and Compen$ation! 💸
Excited to Apply? 📝
Great news: the 2025 SOUL Application is now open! You can learn more about our application process at orientation.appstate.edu/workfororientation/soul. Don’t delay; completed applications are due Monday, September 30th, by midnight. A complete application requires two letters of recommendation via our online Reference Google Form and personal reflection to four open-ended questions. Ready to apply? Excellent; here is the link to our 2025 SOUL Application.
We are excited to look over your application and get to know you through this recruitment process. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to myself (Sarah Garrow) or Abby Silvers, the NMFE Graduate Assistant, at ([email protected]).
