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Ripped from the Wall: Worries over Workday

Some student workers experience pay delay with new payment app

Helena Milburn, Blake Guterman, Zoe Kallenekos, Paul Caruso, and Ritika Shroff • April 9, 2024

This semester, the Ripped from the Wall podcast team investigated American University’s switch to the HR and payment app Workday. After transitioning, some students we spoke to said their payment was...

Behind the budget

A $30.8 million deficit causes a push for budget tightening

Benjamin Austin, Olivia Bohart, and Arati Periyannan • November 28, 2023

American University confirmed a $30.8 million deficit for the 2024 fiscal year, according to an Oct. 17 budget update. Two questions loom over this year’s deficit: How did it happen? And what are the...

Textbook transparency

Teachers who assign their own textbooks could be impacting student learning

Kevin Becker and Casey Bacot • July 20, 2023

Amid rising textbook prices, students have ethical concerns about professors requiring their own textbooks for classes. Lane Thimmesch, a first-year International Studies major, said she worries that...

Meal Plans are changing, here’s how

New plan emphasizes TDR and new dining dollars while leaving out Eaglebucks

Kalie Walker, Staff Editor • July 10, 2023

American University students will have the option to select a new meal plan before Aug. 1, when tuition and fee payments are due, after the university announced a new meal plan for the Fall 2023 semester...