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At the Washington College of Law’s event “The Long Road,” civil rights leaders engaged in a conversation designed to bring awareness of the historical and present adversities many black Americans have dealt with across America for over 200 years, Kendra Brown, Washington College of Law’s director of diversity, inclusion and affinity, said.
Second District Records, the first student organization running a record label in the DMV-area, plans to release “District 17” on Soundcloud by the end of fall semester, SDR president Skylar Tucker said.
Graduate students are walking into AU having experienced unwanted sexual activity before starting their advanced degrees — and there’s a vacuum of on-campus resources available for treatment, according to a study by an AU researcher.
By fall 2017, the School of Public Affairs will make significant changes to three degree programs by decreasing required credit hours, eliminating or adding courses and switching required courses to prerequisites, SPA's Interim Associate Dean Saul Newman said.
AU alumna Katherin Sibel spends her days speaking Guarani, the national language of Paraguay. That’s where she’s stationed as a Peace Corps volunteer, managing several women’s agribusiness projects and social development programs within the Latin American community.
Students, faculty and staff gathered in a packed room in Mary Graydon Center on Wednesday morning for the workshop, “Anti-racism and Allyship: A Campus Conversation.”
AU’s graduate student workers voted Monday to form the District’s first union for working graduate students, following months of discussion with administrators.
The Immigrant Justice Clinic led a teach-in, the “American University Student Forum on Immigration,” with two student attorneys and an AU law professor on March 22 to discuss the rights and possible legal options for noncitizens living in the U.S.
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Over the past few weeks under President Donald Trump’s administration, Congress has introduced several bills to scale back efforts by the Environmental Protection Agency, and The White House has restricted communications between scientists and the media. And before the presidential election, academics said that government scientists believed that their work might get erased if Trump became president because of his decisive opinions about climate change.
The Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, an initiative within AU’s School of Public Affairs, hosted a campus panel discussion on Tuesday, Jan. 23 to discuss the White House’s transition and what to expect from Congress in the next four years.
"I'm not here to spark anything," said Australian visitor, Matthew Hopper, referring to President Trump's inauguration on Friday. "I'm neutral."
