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Along with the suspension of American University’s study abroad programs for the spring semester, the University’s Alternative Breaks program suspended all in-person programming that requires travel in the spring and summer of 2021.
American University Sunrise Movement activists joined demonstrators from George Washington University and D.C. Sunrise hubs outside of Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s (D-Calif.) residence on Sept. 17 to protest her response to the California wildfires.
A group of American University students created the new nonprofit organization Students Against Child Marriage this spring, in an effort to raise awareness of child marriage in the United States and promote anti-child marriage legislation.
With the backdrop of American University’s top-5 ranking on The Princeton Review’s list of campuses with the most politically active students, an AU sophomore hopes to improve the University’s relationship with the surrounding D.C. community by winning his bid for elected office.
As nationwide protests sprung up after the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis, journalists including American University alumni documented the demonstrations and the response by law enforcement in the D.C. region.
American University’s student-run organizations have been preparing for the 2020 and off-year elections with get-out-the-vote campaigning. The College Democrats, College Republicans and Democratic presidential candidate student groups are all doing their part to mobilize their peers as part of a larger effort nationwide to increase turnout at the ballot box next November.
The referendum abolishing class and student councils failed with 57.6% of non-abstaining students voting for the referendum, short of the two-thirds majority required for constitutional amendments. The other referenda, one for changing the start date of senate terms and one that gives School of Education students senate representation under the CAS senator, passed, receiving 85.8% and 87.3% of the vote, respectively.
WAMU launched its new weekly podcast in September that explores the food and history of D.C. newcomers and natives alike.
A new workers’ rights organization at AU launched in January with the goal of spreading awareness of workers’ rights activism taking place across Washington and at AU.
Angela Chen, Mulan Burgess, James Kwon and Bobby Zitzmann will serve on the Student Government executive board for the 2019-2020 academic year.
After multiple town halls with students over the past week, presidential candidates for the 2019-2020 Student Government executive board took part in the annual ATV broadcast debate and a town hall in the Tavern on Monday.
Candidates for the 2019-2020 Student Government executive board answered questions and engaged with audience members from the first annual Black Student Caucus AUSG Debate on Sunday night.
$50,000 from Student Government. $20,000 from the Residence Hall Association. $2,500 from the Office of Campus Life. Along with later contributions from outside organizations, including Student Media Board, the total came to approximately $90,000.
AU has begun a partnership with the Student Voice Index, an organization which seeks to grade college campuses on student input in institutional decision-making on university matters.
Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale spoke to AU students Tuesday night in a wide-ranging speech that spanned the history of the Black Panthers and argued for an electoral strategy to combat racism in the United States.
Students for Free Expression (SFE), a new student organization promoting open discourse on campus, is on a mission to bring speakers from all corners of the political spectrum to engage with students.
The AU Student Government referendum to increase the student activity fee failed this week, with 73.7 percent of students voting against the referendum.
Eagles Elect, AU’s new voter registration initiative, is working to help students register to vote and increase voter participation at AU ahead of this November’s midterm elections.
Student Government’s diversity office is bringing a swath of new events and initiatives to the organization this fall, including events for students of color and trainings for members of the SG Senate.
