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(01/06/21 11:00pm)
Correction and update: This article has been corrected since it was first published to clarify that an AU-branded bus photographed transporting National Guard personnel was not previously owned by the University. It has also been updated with comments from a University-wide email sent by President Sylvia Burwell Thursday.
(12/22/20 1:00am)
Fall 2021 campus housing will return to pre-pandemic levels and classes will be held in person, American University administrators wrote in an email Monday to students accepted to AU through the early decision process.
(12/16/20 7:01pm)
American University plans to offer a half-semester on-campus residential experience for 1,250 full-time students from March to May 2021, with priority given to freshmen, University President Sylvia Burwell announced in an email to the community on Wednesday.
(12/06/20 5:06pm)
Following reports that President-elect Joe Biden is considering American University President Sylvia Burwell among candidates for health secretary, Burwell said she is focused on her University efforts amid the pandemic.
(12/04/20 12:00am)
Clarification and update: This story has been updated to clarify that AU challenged 13 votes over questions of qualification due to staffers’ status as either out-of-state and grant funded, paid for by a third party, acting in sometimes supervisory roles, or working in areas of the station AU does not believe create content. The union disputes the challenge. It has also been updated with a statement from a WAMU spokesperson.
(11/11/20 5:26pm)
American University is moving away from relying entirely on the data-driven Student Evaluations of Teaching (SETs), the end-of-course survey for feedback on class experiences, to what many faculty members say is a more holistic approach.
(11/05/20 6:48pm)
Pulitzer-prize winning journalist Bob Woodward, famed for his Washington Post coverage of the Watergate break-in, will discuss the evolution of investigative journalism in Washington at a virtual Kennedy Political Union and School of Communication event on Nov. 12.
(11/03/20 4:01pm)
Update: This story has been updated with comments from President Sylvia Burwell's Monday email to the AU community and the number of letter signatories as of Wednesday around noon.
(10/26/20 2:51pm)
American University is adjusting to a hybrid curriculum for the spring semester, although the majority of classes will remain online, due to the trajectory of the coronavirus and lessons learned at other schools in recent months, the University announced on its website on Monday.
(10/21/20 4:57pm)
AU Abroad announced Wednesday that all study abroad programs that require students to arrive in their host country before Feb. 6, 2021, are suspended due to pandemic concerns, logistics and issues with international travel.
(10/16/20 5:45pm)
Update: This is an updated version of an article originally published on Oct. 1.
(10/01/20 6:47pm)
Lawyers for American University moved to dismiss a joint lawsuit from students seeking tuition and fee refunds from the online portion of the spring 2020 semester.
(09/28/20 5:51pm)
Within minutes of hearing that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed away from complications with cancer on Sept. 18, members of the American University community began heading downtown for an impromptu vigil on the steps of the Supreme Court.
(09/26/20 2:04am)
Gianna Wheeler, a School of International Service senior who was forcibly removed from her apartment by AUPD in 2019, filed a lawsuit against American University on Friday morning.
(09/14/20 8:01pm)
For the first time in 19 years, American University community members didn’t gather for an in-person vigil on the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and on the Pentagon.
(09/04/20 9:33pm)
American University Student Government and the AU Library announced in an email to the student body on Friday that they are teaming up to help students register to vote, check their voter registration and request absentee ballots for the Nov. 3 general election.
(08/30/20 7:15pm)
Almost 30 years ago, Bijan Moore’s mother attended protests in San Francisco following the savage beating of Rodney King by four Los Angeles Police Department officers. Now, the School of International Service senior is participating in another set of protests, ones he hopes will lead to better awareness, representation and protection for Black people across the United States.
(08/26/20 9:22pm)
Anam Hussain has spent too much of her summer worrying about housing. The School of International Service sophomore intended to stay on campus for the fall semester, but after freshmen were given priority, Hussain found an apartment in the Avalon at Foxhall, near American University’s campus.
(08/24/20 4:33pm)
Zoom, the popular video conferencing application heavily relied upon by American University and other colleges for remote education, experienced widespread outages Monday morning, as the University began its first day of the fall semester.
(08/22/20 5:34pm)
It will take Tara Moriello, a junior in the School of Public Affairs, only six weeks to spend the amount of money she would have spent on the now-canceled U-Pass for her Metro commute from Tenleytown to a babysitting job in Capitol Hill.