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Critical. Subversive. Irrepressible.

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From grant to impact

From grant to impact

What is the Eagle Endowment’s role in community initiatives?
Tom Langford and Lucas Powers April 23, 2025

When Sensi Messner-Baker stepped into a classroom in northeast Washington, she said, it lacked the basic tools students needed to thrive. As a tutor with DC Reads, she saw firsthand how a shortage of supplies...

Movers remove furniture from First-Year Advising office building Clark Hall on March 31.

First-Year Advising’s final days

As their office closes down, first-year advisors are reassessing their places at AU.
Ben Ackman, Photography Producer April 23, 2025

In college, Roshan Abraham decided he could spend the rest of his life studying literature. “Back when I was an undergrad, people didn’t worry as much about the question of ‘What are you going...

Kalea Grant and Demitra Moutoudis

On your feed

American University students and faculty weigh in on the value and implications of unaffiliated campus sources.
Francisco Rodriguez, Staff Writer April 22, 2025

Senior Andy Gardner was meeting with a professor on Feb. 14 when a fellow student and friend of his came into the professor’s office and informed them that an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer...

Federal government has revoked some AU international student visas

Federal government has revoked some AU international student visas

Administrators said they will not be making a statement or announcing further details.
Ben Ackman, Photography Producer April 22, 2025

Some international students at American University have had their visas revoked by the federal government, according to Acting Provost Vicky Wilkins. Wilkins first told community members that some student...

The New Dormitory next door

The New Dormitory next door

Plans for new student housing to be built behind Leonard Hall.
Grace Manson, Staff Writer April 21, 2025

The D.C. Zoning Commission approved Wesley Theological Seminary’s plans to construct a 215-unit apartment behind Leonard Hall and fund affordable housing throughout Ward 3 on Feb. 27. The housing...

Shayna Caruso, left, and Gabriela Rupp read written remarks to a crowd of 40 students in the Katzen rotunda. 20 more audience members watched on Zoom.

Education students feared loss of their school while massive gift was in the works

AU administrators secretly planned a large private donation to the School of Education for months, even as students and the public believed the school could be dissolved.
Ben Ackman and Ava Ramsdale March 3, 2025

On the evening of Nov. 12, 2024, 40 students stood in the Katzen Arts Center rotunda, listening to two juniors in the School of Education read an email the then-SOE Dean Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy sent that...

Finding the jungle in the urban jungle

Finding the jungle in the urban jungle

Despite obstacles to access, students explore outdoor life in the district
Stevie Rosenfeld, Staff Editor December 20, 2024

American University is in a city abundant with nature. Students can step off the metro and walk onto the green of the National Mall. The red line takes Washingtonians to both Fannie Mae, one of the district’s...

Community Profile: Julia Ford

Community Profile: Julia Ford

Finding community through coffee.
Stella Camerlengo, Staff Editor December 13, 2024

Julia Ford is the Manager of The Davenport Coffee Lounge, a student-run coffee shop at the School of International Service. A low-income student and first-generation college student, she hopes to see The...

A new place for AI at AU

A new place for AI at AU

AU has a new fund for generative AI research, but students and faculty say information on the new AI fund has been scarce.
Ben Ackman, Photography Producer December 6, 2024

American University’s College of Arts & Sciences announced a fund for researching generative artificial intelligence over the summer, but the AU community knows little else about it. According...

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