Nadine Bùi was a tuberculosis program analyst for the United States Agency for International Development. She worked there for four years. Then, in January 2025, the Department of Government Efficiency...

Content warning: This article contains violent messages against Palestinians and Jewish people. Discretion is advised. Over three months after Oct. 7, 2023, the administration of former American University...

James Biddle was taking notes on American University’s arboretum before he even became its arboretum manager. Walking across campus to interview for the job last October, he admired how plants added...

In a small back room in Northwest Washington, during the frigid month of January, the air was thick with laughter. Purple and red lights illuminated the space, highlighting the drum, saxophone and cowbell...

Over 1,000 American University students took to Ward Circle during rush hour on May 6, 1970. They were protesting the fatal shooting of four student protesters at an anti-Vietnam War protest at Kent State...

Five days after President Donald Trump took control of Washington’s Metropolitan Police Department, the abolitionist organization Harriet’s Wildest Dreams posted an Instagram video of a Metro Transit...

Anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement protests swept Washington after an ICE agent shot and killed Minneapolis resident Renée Good on Jan. 7. Advocacy groups like Free DC, Code Pink and The Party...

Editor’s note: For the safety of students and professors, AWOL decided to not name the specific classrooms and workspaces that professors raised safety concerns about because people could use the information...

Dear Reader, Thank you for picking up the 38th issue of AWOL. In this magazine, you’ll read about professors and students feeling ill-prepared to respond to an active shooter, Metropolitan Police...

American University removed 286 online records of reports and announcements from university presidents before AU President Jon Alger in recent weeks, AWOL found in a records search. The “President’s...

In her Taylor Swift economics class, Professor Kara Reynolds saw a trend. Though men fill the seats of many of her classes, she said around 90% of her students in the Fall 2024 class were women.  “To...