Jason Byassee, the new senior pastor at Boone United Methodist Church, penned an interesting commentary on the history of Appalachian and the success of our College of Education in a recent Duke Divinity School "Call & Response" blog.

"App continues to hold close to its heart the Dougherty brothers’ founding intention to train teachers for mountain schools. I regularly drive by a brand new, gleaming building for the College of Education. App boasts a blue ribbon teaching fellows program. Our local elementary school has a waiting list with some 200 teachers on it -- kids come to App, train to teach, love the place and pine to stay. And teachers throughout the state and region come from App and in turn send students there."

Read the complete entry here.