App State Athletics will operate all venues – including Kidd Brewer Stadium for football – at full capacity for the 2021-22 academic year. “We are excited to we
Hannah-Jones did not immediately respond to a request for comment. A university spokesman, Joel Curran, told
The Chronicle that Hannah-Jones’s lawyers had sent a letter to Chapel Hill, too. Curran declined to comment further.
NC Policy Watch that she had retained counsel “to ensure the academic and journalistic freedom of Black writers is protected to the full extent of the law and to seek redress for the University of North Carolina’s adverse actions against me.”
In her statement to the news outlet, she pointed to the “wave of antidemocratic suppression that seeks to prohibit the free exchange of ideas, silence Black voices, and chill free speech” as reasons she had decided to “fight back.”
App State’s David and Christy Cook, both U.S. Air Force veterans, were selected by Chancellor Sheri Everts to lay a wreath at App State’s Veterans Memorial to commemorate Memorial Day.
North Carolina’s Heroes of Healing
A close-up of the Appalachian State University scrubs worn by Mountaineer nursing students. Photo by Marie Freeman
“All of nursing is focused on caring for others to make the world a better place.”
Dr. Phoebe Pollitt, an App State retired associate professor of nursing
Dr. Phoebe Pollitt. Photo by Marie Freeman
The Nurse Historian
As a nurse, educator, and historian of nursing, Phoebe Pollitt has spent her career studying and celebrating the accomplishments of nurses past and present. After receiving her bachelor’s degree in nursing from UNC Chapel Hill, Pollitt worked as a home health nurse and as the first school nurse in Watauga County, where she focused on tobacco and teen pregnancy prevention. She went on to earn two master’s degrees and holds a PhD in curriculum and instruction from UNC Greensboro. She is the author of nearly 50 articles, three books, and numerous presentations, many of which tell the stories of North Carolina