Category: "AU Campus News Archives"
Archived news from the American University campus.
- One more time: THIRD AU student charged with restroom voyeurism…UPDATE: It's the same student who was reported missing a week prior...
- Another bathroom pervert at AU…
- American University students rally to protest investments in Israel…
- AU students face 4% tuition increase, 8% dining increase…
- $5.4M preliminary settlement in COVID-era tuition lawsuit…
- Jewish organizations file civil rights complaint against American University…"Hostile environment towards Jews and Israelis"...Read the complaint...
- Jewish AU drop-out claims Instagram hate from fellow students…
- Female fraternity president at American University…
- Anti-Palestinian note follows on heels of antisemitic graffiti…AU calls in the feds to investigate...
- AU explores arming campus police officers…
- Sylvia Burwell to step down as AU president after 2023-24 school year…
- American U provost stepping down…
- Ambulance responding to overdose at American University goes to wrong address, 4 miles away…Students petition for narcan on campus...
- Gianna Wheeler settles discrimination lawsuit against AU…
- AU president weighs in on upcoming staff strike during fall welcome week…More from President Burwell...
- New dean for Kogod School of Business…
- New dean for School of International Service at American U…
- AU Muslim Student Association pulls out of interfaith event after Jewish student group supports Israel…
- Whatever it takes to fill the class…Admit rate climbs from 26% in 2016 to 64% in 2021...As yield rate falls from 33% to 19%...While freshman class nearly doubles in size since 2005...Raw data here...
- AU president Sylvia Burwell to join Kimberly-Clarke board of directors…
- Inflation strikes American University: Tuition to increase 5% each of next two years…
- COVID FREAKOUT: AU goes online to start spring semester…
- Tuberculosis invades American University…
- AU former chaplain sex abuse case deeper than previously reported…
- Masks are back at AU and in DC…
- School of International Service dean to step down…
- American University announces $500,000,000 capital campaign…Launch video includes Sarah McBride, AU's most famous transgender alum..."Change can't wait"...
- American University receives fewer applications, admits more freshmen vs. last year…
- Students, faculty protest new AU trustee Wesley Bush, former CEO of Northrup Grumman…
- Misericordia University hires AU’s Dan Myers as president…Did not last long as AU provost...Or as Marquette provost...
- American U. student government prez proposes “stepping stone” to DEFUNDING campus police…
- AU’s 10-year plan riles neighbors…
- AU suspends spring 2021 study abroad programs…
- Gianna Wheeler sues American University…How it started: Online video of American University police carrying kicking and screaming student Gianna Wheeler from her apartment…
- “AU’s history of racism could possibly turn applicants away”…
- Student news outlet The Blackprint publishes call for white student “tuition strike”…
- They haven’t taken a class yet, but American University’s incoming freshmen are petitioning for changes…"President Burwell you need to understand that we are not just little economic packages for you to live in your mansion..."
- Coronavirus takes a bite: Black-only dorm nixed in favor of black-only dorm floor…
- 3rd student sues AU…
- AU provost Dan Myers steps down after only 18 months on the job…Was also asked to step down from his previous role as provost at Marquette University...
- AU becoming less selective…38% admit rate in 2020...Up from 26% in 2016...
- President Burwell will take 15% paycut; 8% cut for Provost and Vice Presidents
- American U. 2020 graduation to be online only…
- 3 more students, 1 alum test positive for COVID-19
AU announces extended spring break, then 3 weeks of online-only classes to combat coronavirus…- Another race incident at AU…President's memo...
- “There are no bad Englishes”: AU continues slide into acceptance of non-grammatical writing…
- Pro-education, pro-abortion, pro-free tampon group rises at AU…
- Racism and wellness checks at AU?…
- American University students protest treatment of fellow student Gianna Wheeler…List of demands...Original story: Online video of American University police carrying kicking and screaming student Gianna Wheeler from her apartment…
- Online video of American University police carrying kicking and screaming student Gianna Wheeler from her apartment…The Twitter feed...
- AU moves up one spot in US News rankings…Now #77.,.
- American University plans to mandate use of preferred pronouns…
- Chartwells replaces Aramark as American U campus dining operator…
- AU student Sami Pye doesn’t “identify” with her own name…
- American University and Noodle Partners launch online doctorate program…
- American University announces 2019 graduation speakers…
- John Kasich named AU WONK of the year…
- Man in Confederate flag hoodie prompts feelings of “dread and oppression” at American University…Guest of AU student...
- AU to train profs to not allow “white language supremacy” to affect their grading of students’ writing…No comment from AU...
- American University not an easy place for conservative student…"Alienated"..."I actually got my life threatened in one of my classes last year"...
- AU students desire exclusive space so they can be inclusive…
- American University foreign student population up 39%…
- American University students need “safe space” during speech…
- $10M gift launches new Institute of Policy & Politics at American University…
- Alum Gary Abramson donates $5M to American University for new science building…
- AU lockdown ended…
- AU stakes claim as largest carbon-neutral university…
- Professor gets D.C.’s first non-gender-specific drivers license…
- AU’s new strategic plan in process…
- AU student goes missing…
- More unionizing at American University after May Day march…
- Former AU student get 6 year sentence for recording female students in AU restrooms, possessing child porn…
- FIRE calls AU protest policy into question…
- AU budget woes continue…
- American University scraps four-year full-ride minority scholarship program…
- Armed thieves steal Canada Goose coat from AU student…American U student robbed in front of Department of Homeland Security...Armed theft near American University off-campus offices...
- MORE antisemitic happenings at American University…
- Swastikas at American University…Third year in a row...President's memo...
- AU nabs $15 million gift from long-time donors…
- American University’s Chief Online Officer is now offline…
- School of Communication dean Sam Fulwood III departs with one day notice…...only 3 years in post...
- Former AU president Richard Berendzen, who resigned amid obscene phone call scandal, dies…
- Break-in and potential sex assault at American University dorm…
- American U staff plan strike as students arrive on campus…Administration response...
- AU law students under investigation for class group chat…
- AU sells toxic chemical site…Well over asking price...
- American U. student government president suspended for threatening to call a colleague racist…
- American U campus plan approved by DC zoning board…
- AU president supports Ukraine…Does not say whether Russian students at AU have been kicked out...
- AU grad reports anti-Semitism on campus…
- Army Corps completes clean-up of toxins at American University Experiment Station…
- Executive re-org at American University…
- Blacks-only course at American University…"Considering adding more affinity sections for different racial groups"...
- American University grad accuses former chaplain of sexual assault…
- US Congressman David Trone gives $5 million to AU…
- American University launches new branding campaign…Goodbye WONK...
- Roger Fairfax, Jr. named dean of Washington College of Law…
- It’s a cluster: 5 residents of Nebraska Hall test positive for COVID-19…
- AU student newspaper columnist likens return of “predominantly affluent white students” to “invasive species”…
- AU’s next door neighbor Wesley Theological Seminary proposes new dorm with rooms for 530 AU students…New revenue stream for the declining institution...Neighborhood concerned...Previously: AU's 10-year plans riles neighbors...
- AU students fear “potentially armed” police…
- Anonymous student sues AU over Title IX, suspension…
- AU’s Delta Tau Delta fraternity chapter cancels itself…
- AU student media split over misprint…
- Instagram: Black at American University…
- What is going on with sexual misconduct at American University?Student government prez Nikola Jok resigns over anonymous sex allegations toward his fraternity...Instagram: Sexual harassment, assault at American University...
- American University to open campus on time in the fall…Only freshmen and sophomores allowed in dorms...All dorm rooms will be single occupancy...Mixture of in-person and online classes...
- COVID-19 blows $100 million hole in American University budget…Heavy reliance on tuition does not help...
- Student’s class-action lawsuit seeks refund from American University due to COVID-19…"Online classes are not an adequate substitute for in-person classes"...
- AU law school dean Camille Nelson leaves for U of Hawaii…
- AU summer school: Online only, 10% discount…
- Pass/fail grades only for spring semester…...Tuition $25,271 for pass/fail grades--PER SEMESTER...
- First American University student tests positive for COVID-19…
- Obama, Pelosi, others to speak on panel at AU…AU community frustrated because "very few general tickets for the AU community"...
- American University Sigma Alpha Mu boots member over offensive party…
- AU hires new CIO…
- AU students complain about mental healthcare but don’t show up for counseling appointments…Faculty filed over 3,000 mental health care reports...Students whine more...
- New American U scholarship offers full rides for 10 DC residents…
- AU needs new dean of School of Communication…...and dean of Graduate Studies......and vice provost for research...
- LGBTQ-focused student publication launches at American University…
- American U to host “Drag Queen Bingo” for new students on August 27…Full Welcome Week schedule...
- American University supports transgender non-discrimination, except when there’s a lot of money on the line…
- School of Communication dean Jeff Rutenbeck named provost at Arcadia University…
- AU faculty and staff to march in DC Pride Parade…
- American University 2019 acceptance rate 35%…Up 3 percentage points from last year...Highest acceptance rate since 2015...
- American University honors program to nearly triple in size…Scholarship cuts?...
- Tuition to increase 3% in 2020 and 2021…
- Founded 27 years after abolition, American University nonetheless has a committee to study its “ties to slavery”…Read the report...
- Settlement requires anti-hate training for harasser of former AU student body prez Taylor Dumpson…
- American University yoga club disbands over talk of “cultural appropriation”…
- Elizabeth Warren to outline her foreign policy views at American University on November 29…
- American U named one of the most underrated colleges in the US…
- AU loses age discrimination lawsuit; must pay $1.3 million…
- American University alum/alleged Russian agent subpoenas AU…
- AU alert system to be rebooted after failures during faux armed intruder incident…
- New dean for School of International Service…
- American University ties its 2nd lowest admit rate…29%…
- AU inaugurates new president…
- American University freshman enrollment 17% below target…Budget woes continue...
- Here we go again: more WWI munitions debris found at American University…
- Jonathan Alger named next president of American University…
- American U creates working group for campus free expression…
- Arrest made in 2022 dorm sex assault at American University…
- AU alumna is Miss DC…
- American University law school dean leaves for Howard University…
- Pro-Palestinian student rally at American University…And ANOTHER one...
- Pride flag flies again at American University…
- AU faces $30 million budget shortfall, driven by lower enrollment…
- AU president complains about Supreme Court rulings…...laments loss of ability to use race in admissions while taking federal money..
- Freak-out ensues at American University after unidentified black man acts strangely on campus…Student newspaper article...First administration memo...Second...Third...Fourth...Instragram message that started it all...
- American University students protest admin’s handling of sex assault…
- Swastika at American University on Rosh Hashanah…Student newspaper report...
- With most of US maskless, AU requires masks in class for fall 2022…
- Proud boys, girls, both/either/none at AU in Pride Month…
- American University braces for union protests…
- New dean for AU College of Arts & Sciences…
- Masks back at American University…
- Tuition lawsuit against AU moves forward…
- AU to students: Attend class online, but no break on campus housing, food, or tuition costs…
- AU law prof Robert Pincus targeted over client billing…
- AU’s campus kitty missing…
- Alumna Bronte Burleigh-Jones named new CFO at American University…
- DC Zoning Commission approves AU campus plan…
- Sara Clarke Kaplan named executive director of AU’s Antiracist Research and Policy Center…Author of book that combines "Black literary and cultural studies with feminist and queer theory to read twentieth- and twenty-first-century texts and images alongside their pre-emancipation counterparts"...Package deal with partner Kirstie Dorr...
- AU to require COVID vax for on-campus students…
- Oops: AU admissions office erroneously emails students to say they had been admitted to the honors program…"Unprofessional"...
- Founded 25 years after abolition of slavery, AU still trying to figure out how to claim ties to slavery to offer en vogue repentance…
- American University announces no tuition increase for next year…
- Sam Fulwood III named Dean of School of Communication at American University…
- AU-owned NPR affiliate WAMU votes to unionize…
- American University-owned WAMU seeks to unionize…
- AU to extend salary cuts, furloughs, and cut employee retirement contributions to address COVID budget shortfalls…Mostly affects those making more than $40K...
- AU moves fall classes online; offers 10% tuition discount…
- Circular firing squad: AU College Democrats leadership team resigns en masse over lack of diversity in club leadership…
- Video conference on the fall semester at American University…
- Famed anti-racism prof Ibram X. Kendi leaves AU for Boston U…"I'd rather not comment on AU..."
- American U. announces new Department of Critical Race, Gender & Culture Studies…
- Joseph Kaplan: First AU COVID-19 death…
- American University: $27M in losses due to COVID-19, so far…President Burwell, provost, vice presidents take pay cut...
- COVID-19:
28434754 cases at AU…1 death... - While members of AU community have coronavirus…...administration frets about "inclusive language"...
- American U moves all classes online for the rest of the spring semester…Students must vacate campus housing by March 23...Study abroad programs canceled...
- SEPARATE THE RACES: American U to offer “Black affinity housing”…
- American University hires Joseph Riquelme as first chief online officer…
- AU administration tells study-abroad students in China to return home…Coronavirus fears...
- American University’s Model UN team #2 in the nation…
- Congressional Hall at AU to be renamed in honor of alumni donors…
- Former AU student Olivia Cronin–unable to complete degree requirements–believes she should get degree anyway…Facebook pity party...
- Lockheed Martin skips AU career fair after student pressure…
- AU prez statement on El Paso and Dayton mass shootings…No comment on Chicago's continued crowd-sourcing of mass murder...
- AU School of Education separates from College of Arts and Sciences…
- Matthew Bennett named American University Vice President and Chief Communications Officer
- American University graduate students unionize…
- Video of AU freshman Aise O’Neil using racial epithet spreads online…American University administration responds...Facebook frenzy...Students propose segregated housing in response...
- Adjunct Douglas Hecox faces scrutiny of Twitter posts…
- Blackface at American University…
- American University announces new 5-year strategic plan…Changemakers for a changing world...Focus on women's rights, immigration, and intersectional studies...
- Dan Myers from Marquette U. named provost at American University…
- Federal Department of Education investigations continue at American University…
- Local TV news investigates mold in AU dorms…
- Some concerned as Dinesh D’Souza invited to speak on campus…Causes at least one student to become unhinged...
- American University hosts transgender conference…
- Parents won’t pay tuition for AU female student who prefers to be a man…
- AU student who filmed “voyeur video” can’t get insurance protection…
- AU investigation of alleged hate crime ends unsuccessfully…Student newspaper recaps “banana incident” and aftermath…
- Lackluster lineup of graduation speakers announced…
- AU to investigate its possible ties to slavery…
