Employee "Perks"
Health and Wellness
Health Promotion - Provides staff, faculty, and spouse or significant other with information, programs, and services to promote a healthy lifestyle and good quality of life. Major components of the program include exercise classes, dietary assistance, and health screenings.
Health and Wellness - Confidential counseling services are available through Counseling for Faculty and Staff to help with personal problems, especially when they interfere with work performance. Assistance is available at no cost to staff, faculty, and their immediate family members.
University Recreation (UREC) - University Recreation (UREC) offers a variety of opportunities for recreation, such as:
- Fitness and Informal Recreation includes The Quinn Center, The Life Fitness Center, at Mount Mitchell gyms, and the Student Recreation Center.
- Club Sports is designed to offer students, faculty, and staff a competitive outlet on a non-varsity level.
- Outdoor Programs includes kayaking, caving, hiking, rock climbing, canoeing and more. Check-out equipment or participate in activities.
- Intramural Sports activities offer the opportunity to compete against peers in a friendly and structured environment.
- Swimming pool will be available in the new Student Recreation Center.
Local Businesses
Nationwide Insurance - Auto Insurance Discount
B. Park Terrell Agency, Inc - 828-264-8777
The Harkins Agency, Inc - 828-265-2639
Theme Park Tickets
Through a partnership with the State Employees Association of North Carolina (SEANC), State Employees Credit Union is offering discount tickets to Wet'nWild Emerald Pointe; Paramont's Carolwinds; Paramont's Kings Dominion; Tweetsie; The Myrtle Beach Pavilion; Myrtle Waves; and Nascar Speedpark. Please visit the State Employees Credit Union website for further information.
University Bookstore
Tthe Univeristy Bookstore provides the University community with the goods and services necessary to meet its educational needs and enhance campus life. They offer a wide variety of merchandise and services such as books, gifts, clothing, computers and supplies. The Pricing policy aligns with National Association of College Stores (NACS); profits are used to fund student loans and scholarships.
- The bookstore adjoins the Plemmons Student Union
- Monthly coupons for merchandise are printed in the student calendar
- The Scholars Bookshop: best sellers, regional interest and academic interest in hardback and paperback. Gift books, music, greeting cards, gift wrap and posters.
- Print and Copy Center
- Seattle's Best Coffee Shop
- Convenience Store
- School supplies at The Mountaineer Supply Company
University Writing Center
The University Writing Center is located in Belk Library. This department offers:
- free services to students, faculty, and staff of Appalachian State University.
- Anyone who would like to discuss a piece of writing with an informed, sensitive reader is welcome.
- work s with writers on a wide variety of projects: papers for academic courses; masters and senior thesis chapters; personal essays for job, graduate school, and law school applications; creative writing projects; grant or project proposals; and course syllabi.
- Work with writers at any stage of the writing process, from inventing topics to editing at the sentence level.
Work/Life
ASU Child Development Center provides quality care for the children of ASU students, faculty, and staff. Activities include time for playing individually, in groups, instructional activities introduced through learning centers, outdoor activities, rest, and nutritional snacks. Parent fees are based on a sliding scale according to annual family income.
Lucy Brock Preschool Program is to model currently accepted best practices in the field of early childhood education, as well as to apply innovative approaches. Provides ASU Home Economic Majors the hands-on experiences of working with young children to enhance their knowledge of child development, and provides quality early experiences to the local children to prepare them for public school.
The 5th Dimension pairs a pre-service beginning teacher with an elementary or middle school student for the purposes of fostering a learning relationship. It provides opportunities to learn using computers, games, arts and crafts, outdoor activities and advanced technology.
The Reich College of Education supports the Learning Partners program which provides tutoring training to students. The students then deliver tutoring services for local school children during a full semester while enrolled in ASU's introductory course to teacher education.
Parent to Parent provides information and support for families who have a premature infant, a child with a disability or chronic illness or a family who has experienced the death of their child.
ASU also offers a quality Communications Disorders Clinic whose primary purpose is the provision of "hands-on" clinical learning experiences for students. The secondary purpose is the provision of quality professional services to persons in the region. The Clinic provide services to children with language and reading disabilities regardless of their family's ability to pay for these services
Miscellaneous Programs/Services
Library Privileges - The Belk Library & Information Commons campus-wide library system has one of the premier collections in the South. You may check out books by using your ASU ID Card.
Notary Public Services - Notary Public services are available for University-related forms at no charge in the Benefits Office. Please call Kathy Hamby at 828-262-6485, or Angie Miller at 828-262-6769 for an appointment.
State Employees Combined Campaign - The SECC is the only workplace-giving program authorized for payroll deduction for most state employees. In 1984, Governor James B. Hunt issued an Executive Order establishing the campaign, and since then each Governor has actively supported the SECC.
ASU ID Card - The ASU ID Card (AppCard) is Appalachian State University's photo identification card. Your AppCard is electronically encoded to give you access to the Quinn Center, Mt. Mitchell, Belk Library, and gated parking lots across campus. In order to obtain an ASU ID Card, you will need to complete all of your forms for new hire and then the Human Resource Office will give you a form to take to the ID Center located in Trivette Hall. You may also elect to activate the Appalachian Express account which will allow you to purchase goods and services all across campus by way of simple payroll deduction. There is no service charge to open a Faculty/Staff Appalachian Express Account.
- AppCard Request Form (pdf-164KB )
- Appalachian Express Account Form (pdf-203KB)
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