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AU admitted 29 percent of applicants this year, the second lowest acceptance rate in the university’s history. This is up from last year’s acceptance rate of 26 percent.
Vicky Wilkins will serve as interim dean of the School of Public Affairs beginning July 3, according to a memo sent by Provost Scott Bass on Tuesday.
Many students come to AU for its D.C. location with the hope of landing a job in politics after they graduate. In light of the 2016 election, though, the University’s liberal students may need to rethink their plans.
Jelani Cobb gave the audience a history lesson Thursday night in the Abramson Family Founder's Room, showing how America’s foundations are rooted in race, even today.
Standing in a sparse crowd of red “Make America Great Again” ballcaps was School of Public Affairs freshman Anthony Kuykendall, the AU College Democrats deputy chief of staff. He found himself sandwiched between Donald Trump supporters and a man holding up a makeshift Black Lives Matter sign, which drew the criticism of onlookers, who exchanged shouts and snide remarks.
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Kiho Kim, the Environmental Studies Department chair and the director of the AU Scholars program, emphasized the need for stronger faculty and student engagement and spoke about campus diversity and grading issues at his VPUG town hall Feb. 8.
From Feb. 2 to Feb. 22, the University held a series of town hall meetings to allow students, faculty and staff to vet three candidates interested in the position of Vice Provost for Undergraduate Studies.
As an ever increasing number of millennials report having mental health issues, the most prevalent problem they seem to be facing is no longer depression, but anxiety, an issue that plagues AU, where 91 percent of students surveyed in 2013 reported feeling “ so stressed they couldn’t function.”
An AU student was assaulted and robbed while exiting a Chinatown McDonald’s on Feb. 12.
A record-breaking blizzard is expected to hit Washington D.C. this afternoon, and will last through Sunday, coating the area with up to two feet of snow.
Student-led racial justice movement The Darkening hosted a workshop on structural racism Wednesday night, led by cofounder Tatiana Laing.
The Safe Campus Act of 2015 and the Fair Campus Act of 2015, both introduced in Congress this July, would affect the way in which federally-funded universities like AU are required to handle allegations of sexual assault.
Former U.S. Treasurer and conservative commentator Bay Buchanan spoke to an audience of students and faculty Wednesday night about the importance of self-confidence and strong convictions in politics.
The Annual Security Report showed that reported forcible sex offenses on campus rose 162 percent and liquor law violations rose 37 percent in 2014.
Retired AU professor Elliott McGinnies has been charged with the second-degree rape of a child in the 1970s.
Anne Caprara graduated in 2001. In the past she has worked for EMILY’s List, which fundraises for pro-choice Democratic female candidates, and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which financially supports the campaigns of Democrats in the Senate. Caprara is currently Executive Director at Priorities USA Action, the Super PAC officially supporting Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
Sigma Chi Derby Days, which begins Monday, April 6 will include lip-syncing, raffles and a concert, and is named by AU Fraternity & Sorority Life as Greek Program of the Year.
Amid controversy at Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapters around the country, the new SAE chapter at AU that colonized this semester plans to set itself apart by proactively countering sexual assault.
The Panhellenic Association and the Interfraternity Council kicks off Greek Week 2015 on March 23, which will include dance-offs, a cookout and field games in the biggest Greek event of the semester.
