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American University President Sylvia Burwell spoke at an event hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations on Oct. 8 to discuss a recent report on how to improve pandemic preparedness.
Student Government President Eric Brock recently signed a bill to center student voices in planning for the spring semester in an effort to avoid issues that arose over the summer.
Eric Brock, a rising junior in the School of Public Affairs, has been elected to serve as the Student Government president for the remainder of the 2020-2021 academic year.
Following the resignations of former AUSG President Nikola Jok and former Speaker of the Undergraduate Senate Mulan Burgess, Student Government officials are moving to replace the empty positions.
A referendum encouraging the Board of Trustees to divest from the fossil fuel industry passed Thursday, with 93 percent of students voting to support it.
Jok, a sophomore in the Kogod School of Business and College of Arts and Sciences, will serve as the SG president, alongside Saldanha, a sophomore in SOC and SPA, who will serve as vice president. Pillai, a sophomore in the School of International Service, will assume the role of secretary, while Levine, a sophomore in the Kogod School of Business, will become the comptroller.
Meet the candidates running for the 2019-2020 Student Government executive board. Voting begins on April 13 at noon and ends on April 16 at noon. Students can vote online through Campus Labs. More information about the elections process can be found here.
Halfway through a debate hosted by AU College Democrats on April 8 between candidates for Student Government president and comptroller, the Zoom call used as the debate’s platform was disrupted by anonymous trolls sharing pornographic images and harassing messages.
The budget for the 2020 Founders Week and Ball remains the highest budget ever for the event.
This article has been updated with a correction.
Former Polish dissident and first democratically-elected president Lech Wałęsa spoke to American University students at an event hosted by the School of International Service on Nov. 21. Wałęsa addressed the future trajectory of international relations, as well as contemporary threats to democracy.
For the first time, AU students are now able to declare a major in photography. The degree program, which is a collaboration between the School of Communication (SOC) and the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS), aims to give students a comprehensive knowledge of the fundamentals of photography, as well as the possible applications for it.
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.
Three AU students made headlines for their Hong Kong protest gone viral during a livestream of an online video game tournament on Oct. 8.
