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With a slumping economy and the hope of better job prospects, college graduates are heading back to the books.
AU students will collect trash in nearby neighborhoods Oct. 22 as part of the Autumn Litter Pickup, hosted by the Washington Semester Program on International Environment and Development and the Office of Sustainability.
In order to apply for a position as an Eagle columnist, I was required to write a sample of a column I could see myself writing a few months into the semester.
AU is taking steps to offset the carbon emissions caused by travel to study abroad and local volunteer programs, according to Director of Sustainability Chris O’Brien.
Seven new Alternative Break programs, including trips to Cuba, Israel, Alabama and Rwanda, were created for the upcoming year.
AU hired recent graduate Joshua Kaplan as the outreach specialist for the Office of Sustainability in July to engage the community in environmentally sustainable goals.
In this week’s Quick Take, columnists and members of the university reflect upon the 10th anniversary of 9/11. What does this tragedy mean to AU students? How did the campus community handle its grief and how does it continue to do so? Should this date remind us of larger implications on U.S. foreign policy? Our Quick Take columnists and members of the AU community weigh in:
AU Director of Sustainability Chris O’Brien and four other members of the American University community were arrested for civil disobedience Sept. 3. The five AU members were arrested outside the White House during a protest against a proposed pipeline that would bring tar sands oil from Canada to Texas.
The AU field hockey team fell 4-1 to the Old Dominion University Lady Monarchs in Charlottesville, Va., in their season opener Aug. 28, after preseason rankings supported a much tighter matchup.
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Princeton Review downgraded AU to the fifth most politically active campus in the country Aug. 2, just a year after putting AU in the top spot.
From protests to fundraisers, spring semester was packed with news and events.
Students across campus are campaigning for Aramark workers to receive greater benefits and foster better relations with the University.
A new meal plan option and “Dining Dollars,” a new form of payment at on-campus dining locations, will be offered this fall semester.
AU will install D.C.’s largest solar power system and the largest urban solar hot water system on the East Coast by July, as part of the University’s goal of carbon neutrality by 2020.
AU celebrated Earth Day with an inaugural Earth Week, each day commemorating a different sustainability theme.
Delta Sigma Theta’s Nu Alpha chapter celebrated its 35th anniversary with a reunion weekend for past and present sisters April 22-23.
Housing and Dining Programs will hold its first Project Move-Out Community Sale this week in an effort to reuse goods and eliminate waste in AU residence halls and offices.
This past February, AU earned the ranking of the “greenest” university in the nation under the widely regarded Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Ranking System (STARS). If you’ve ever taken the sustainability tour or perused the Office of Sustainability, you know that American has taken significant steps towards earning this cherished title. Among the many initiatives, the university composts paper towels, converts kitchen grease to biodiesel fuel and earned the LEED Gold certification for the new SIS building.
Congressional cuts to the year-round Pell Grant program could have a ripple effect for American students even if they are not eligible for Pell Grants.
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