Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 72.94
Liaison Jen Maxwell
Submission Date Dec. 5, 2023

STARS v2.2

Appalachian State University
PRE-3: Institutional Boundary

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete N/A Jim Dees
Data and Assessment Specialist
Office of Sustailability
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Institution type:
Master

Institutional control:
Public

A brief description of the institution’s main campus and other aspects of the institutional boundary used to complete this report:
Appalachian's campus is approximately 410 acres in size located in Watauga County North Carolina. Also under the institutional boundary is a 338 acre farm in neighboring Ashe County. 2019-2020 reported square footage under direct university control was 5,620,710.

Which of the following features are present on campus and which are included within the institutional boundary?:
Present? Included?
Agricultural school No No
Medical school No No
Other professional school with labs or clinics (e.g. dental, nursing, pharmacy, public health, veterinary) No No
Museum Yes Yes
Satellite campus Yes No
Farm larger than 2 hectares or 5 acres Yes Yes
Agricultural experiment station larger than 2 hectares or 5 acres Yes Yes
Hospital No No

The rationale for excluding any features that are present from the institutional boundary:
Appalachian offers degree programs at four Appalachian Centers that are not under direct university control located as follows:
Appalachian Center at Burke (located in Foothills Higher Education Center)
Appalachian Center at Caldwell (located on the Hudson Campus of Caldwell Community College and Tech Institute)
Appalachian Center at Hickory (located at Catawba Valley Community College)
North Carolina Center for Engineering Technologies (NCCET)

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