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50-634: The Jefferson Place Gallery was initially founded in 1957 as a cooperative gallery, by five current and former art professors at American University , William Howard Calfee, Robert Franklin Gates , Helene Herzbrun , Mary Ryan Orwen , and Ben Summerford. Alice Denney , served as the first gallery director. Other artists who joined the cooperative in 1957 were George Bayliss, Lothar Brabanski, Colin Greenly , Leonard Maurer, Kenneth Noland , and Baltimore-based artist Shelby Shackelford . Nesta Dorrance acquired

100-608: A graduate education institution in 1914, and admitted its first undergraduates in 1925. Although affiliated with the United Methodist Church , religious affiliation is not a criterion for admission. American University has eight schools and colleges: the School of International Service , College of Arts and Sciences , Kogod School of Business, School of Communication , Professional Studies and Executive Education, School of Public Affairs , School of Education , and

150-523: A 5,000-seat arena, and an outdoor amphitheater . The campus has been designated a public garden and arboretum by the American Public Gardens Association , with many foreign and exotic plants and trees dotting the landscape. Housing is guaranteed for two years. Most freshman and sophomore students choose to live on campus. First-year students are not required to live on campus. The university added 590 beds in 2017 with

200-624: A consortium loan service between member institutions and has a shared collections site in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. The Library's Archives and Special Collections houses unique and rare materials and information on the institution's history. The University Archives is the repository for papers and other documents, including sound recordings and photographs, spanning more than a century of the university's history. Special Collections houses rare materials. AU has over 150 recognized organizations on campus, ranging from political to social. There

250-403: A long-time AU administrator, was appointed interim president. On September 1, 2007, Kerwin was appointed to the position permanently after two outsiders declined an offer from the board of trustees. According to The Chronicle of Higher Education , Ladner received total compensation of $ 4,270,665 in his final year of service, the second-highest of any university president in the nation. Ground

300-473: Is classified among " R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity ". The university owns National Public Radio 's flagship capital affiliate, WAMU , which has been a source of nationally and internationally distributed programming such as The Diane Rehm Show and 1A . American University was established in the District of Columbia by an Act of Congress on December 5, 1892, primarily due to

350-529: Is a literary magazine founded in 1984 and based at American University. It publishes fiction, poetry , and creative nonfiction twice each year. Folio has printed interviews with prominent writers, most recently Ann Beattie , Alice Fulton , Leslie Pietrzyk , Gregory Orr , and Adam Haslett . Work that has appeared in Folio was short-listed for the Pushcart Prize multiple time in the 1980s. Among

400-620: Is a private federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C. , United States. Its main campus spans 90 acres (36 ha) on Ward Circle , mostly in the Spring Valley neighborhood of Northwest D.C. American University was chartered by an Act of Congress in 1893 at the urging of Methodist bishop John Fletcher Hurst , who sought to create an institution that would promote public service , internationalism , and pragmatic idealism . AU broke ground in 1902, opened as

450-510: Is also home to a unique program known as the Washington Semester Program. This program partners with institutions around the world to bring students to AU for a semester. The program operates as part of the School of Professional & Extended Studies . The program combines two seminar courses three days a week with a two-day-per-week internship that gives students a unique look at Washington, D.C. Admission to American

500-495: Is an internationally top-ranked Model United Nations team (ranking 1st in North America following the 2021–2022 academic year). The team competes actively at intercollegiate tournaments, and also hosts "AmeriMUNC" (American Model United Nations Conference) a yearly High School Model UN competition on campus. American University Student Government (AUSG) is the governing body of the student population and has been ranked as

550-875: Is considered to be "more selective" by the U.S. News & World Report . For the Class of 2023 (enrolling fall 2019), AU received 18,545 freshmen applications; 6,691 were admitted (36%) and 1,755 enrolled. The middle 50% range of SAT scores were 590–690 for Evidence-Based Reading and Writing and 590–690 for Math. The middle 50% range of the ACT Composite score was 27–31. The U.S. News & World Report has ranked American University 7th in Study Abroad programs. American University operates three premier programs in Brussels , Belgium; Madrid , Spain; and Nairobi , Kenya but, also partners with universities across

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600-579: Is home to the Institute for Innovation in Education and the newly created Center for Postsecondary Readiness and Success. On April 22, 2020, AU announced that it had divested its endowment of fossil fuels , becoming one of the first universities in the United States to completely divest of both direct and indirect fossil fuel holdings. Following a student referendum in favor of divestment,

650-649: The United Arab Emirates , signed a two-year contract with AU to provide academic management. This contract has since been extended multiple times through August 2009. A team of senior AU administrators relocated to Sharjah to assist in the establishment of the university and guide it through the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools accreditation process. In fall 2005, the new Katzen Arts Center opened. Benjamin Ladner

700-541: The Washington College of Law (WCL). It has over 160 programs, including 71 bachelor's degrees, 87 master's degrees, and 10 doctoral degrees, as well as JD , LLM , and SJD programs. AU's student body numbers over 13,000 and represents all 50 U.S. states and 141 countries; around a fifth of students are international. American University is among the top three feeder schools to the Department of State. It

750-549: The 4th Floor of American University's Spring Valley Building, located at 4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW , about one mile from the main campus. For many decades, the School of Education was part of American University's College of Arts and Sciences , and it became a separate and independent school on July 1, 2019. Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy , who had been the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs at Johns Hopkins University (JHU), and

800-571: The AU board of trustees voted against divesting the endowment in 2014. The decision to divest in 2020 came after extensive student campaigning from groups like Fossil Free AU and the undergraduate student government. In 2020, Fossil Free AU pushed for a second student referendum on the subject, and the student government released a report on divestment, presented to the board of trustees by student comptroller Robert Zitzmann. American University has two contiguous campuses for academics and student housing:

850-413: The AU international relations master's degree in the top 10 in the United States and the doctoral degree in the top 25. The School of Communication is among the top 25 in the nation, and it graduates the third-largest number of communication professionals among U.S. colleges and universities. The School of Public Affairs is ranked 10th in the U.S. by U.S. News & World Report for 2023. Folio

900-631: The Adnan Khashoggi Sports Center was completed while the Iran–Contra Affair controversy was at its height, although his name remained on the building until after Khashoggi defaulted on his donation obligation in the mid-to-late 1990s. The School of Communication became independent from the College of Arts and Sciences in 1993. In 1997, American University of Sharjah , the only coeducational, liberal arts university in

950-520: The Adnan Khashoggi Sports and Convocation Center began. Financed with $ 5 million from and named for Saudi Arabian Trustee Adnan Khashoggi , the building was intended to update athletics facilities and provide a new arena, as well as a parking garage and office space for administrative services. Costing an estimated $ 19 million, the building represented the largest construction project to date but met protest by both faculty and students to

1000-547: The Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE). The school offers undergraduate, master's , and doctoral degrees , as well as a post-masters graduate certificate in " Anti-Racist Administration and School Leadership." The school also runs a Center For Postsecondary Readiness and Success which "concentrates its research, professional development opportunities, and knowledge dissemination on improving

1050-794: The Robert P. and Arlene R. Kogod College of Business Administration and in 1999, renamed the Kogod School of Business); the School of Government and Public Administration in 1957; and the School of International Service in 1958. In the early 1960s, the Department of Defense and the Central Intelligence Agency operated the FFRDC Special Operations Research Office as a think tank at American University. AU's political involvement

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1100-687: The School of Government and Public Administration, the School of International Service, the Center for Technology and Administration, and the Center for the Administration of Justice (subsequently named the School of Justice) were incorporated into the College of Public and International Affairs. The university bought the Immaculata Campus in 1986 to alleviate space problems. This would later become Tenley Campus. In 1986, construction on

1150-597: The Washington College of Law. Graduates are reportedly saddled with enormous amounts of debt, and in 2022 only 69% of graduates held jobs that required they pass the Bar. The university is composed of eight divisions, referred to as colleges or schools, which house its academic programs. Except for WCL, undergraduate and graduate courses are housed within the same division, although organized into different programs. These colleges and schools are: American University

1200-587: The country. In spring 2006, 34 graduate and law students were chosen for the honor. American University routinely ranks among the top mid-sized universities for producing Peace Corps volunteers. Among The Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs (APSIA) schools, AU School of International Service has the largest number of minority students and female students. It is ranked 6th among APSIA schools in numbers of international students. A review in Foreign Policy Magazine ranked

1250-546: The defendants to pay more than $ 101,000 in compensatory damages, $ 500,000 in punitive damages, and more than $ 124,000 in attorney's fees. Dumpson also entered a restraining order against him. Although Dumpson and Anglin have not settled, she settled in December 2018 with one of the people who harassed her, a man from Oregon who was required to apologize, to renounce white supremacy , to stop trolling and doxing online, and to provide information to and cooperate with authorities in

1300-488: The efforts of Methodist bishop John Fletcher Hurst , who aimed to create an institution that could train future public servants . Hurst also chose the university's site, which was in the rural periphery of Washington, D.C. After more than three decades devoted principally to securing financial support, the university was officially dedicated on May 15, 1914, with its first instructions beginning October of that year when 28 students were enrolled, 19 of whom were graduates and

1350-509: The establishment of the College of Liberal Arts (subsequently named the College of Arts and Sciences ), which offered the first undergraduate degrees and programs. What is now the School of Public Affairs was founded in 1934, partly to educate future federal employees in new approaches to public administration introduced by the New Deal ; during the event commemorating its launch, President Franklin D. Roosevelt stressed cooperation between

1400-491: The founder of the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer . She accused Anglin of organizing a racist and sexist trolling campaign against her. She alleged that Anglin posted her name, her picture, links to her Facebook page, and the Twitter page of the university's student government, and urged his readers to "troll storm" her, which resulted in many hate-filled and racist online messages directed at her. A federal judge ordered

1450-1545: The gallery from Alice Denney in 1961, when she left to organize the Washington Gallery of Modern Art . Dorrance ran it until it closed in October 1974. The gallery exhibited "advanced art" and was associated with Washington Color School, a color field , post-painterly abstraction and lyrical abstraction for a number of years, and was a major Washington outlet for that art. The competitors in contemporary art with Nesta Dorrance's Jefferson Place Gallery were Henri Gallery [Henrietta Ersham], Pyramid Gallery [Ramon Osuna and Luis Lastra] and later, Protetch-Rivkin Gallery [Max Protetch and Harold Rivkin]. Some artists who also exhibited at Jefferson Place Gallery: Antoinette Pinchot Bradlee , William Christenberry , Gene Davis , Willem De Looper , William Eggleston , Sam Gilliam , John Gossage , Valerie Hollister , Sheila Isham , Jennie Lea Knight , Rockne Krebs , Blaine Larson , Howard Mehring , Mary Pinchot Meyer , David Moy, Roberto Polo, V. V. Rankine , Paul Reed (artist) , Eric Rudd, Yuri Schwebler , Roy Slade, D. Jack Solomon, David Staton, Elliot Thompson, Hilda Shapiro Thorpe , Frederic Matys Thursz , Franklin White, John P. Wise, Mary Orwen, Carroll Sockwell , and Ed Zerne. American University American University ( AU or American )

1500-401: The globe. American University's undergraduate program was tied for 105th overall among "national universities" in U.S. News & World Report 's 2024 rankings, tied for 31st in "Best Undergraduate Teaching", tied for 46th in "Most Innovative Schools", and 120th in "Best Value Schools". In 2008, 2010, 2012, and 2018, American University was named the most politically active school in

1550-529: The initials "AKA", which are also the initials of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority. The university considered the incident to be racist, and then-president Neil Kerwin called it a "cowardly, despicable act." In May 2018, the school said it had exhausted "all credible leads" about who had perpetrated the incident. Also in May 2018, Dumpson filed a lawsuit against several people, including Andrew Anglin ,

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1600-709: The main campus on Massachusetts Avenue and the East Campus on Nebraska Avenue Washington College of Law has since been moved to the site of the Tenley Campus located in Tenleytown . AU owns several other buildings in Tenleytown, Spring Valley , East Campus in Wesley Heights , and American University Park areas. The first design for the campus was done by Frederick Law Olmsted . However, it

1650-660: The most active student government in the United States. It comprises the Undergraduate Senate and the Executive Branch. AUSG promotes advocacy and launches initiatives on campus supported by the student body. American University School of Education The School of Education at American University is accredited by the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) and by

1700-608: The nation by The Princeton Review' s annual survey of college students. In 2006, the Fiske Guide to Colleges ranked AU as a "Best Buy" college for the quality of academic offerings in relation to the cost of attendance. However, in 2013, the Daily Beast listed the school in their list of "20 Least Affordable Colleges". For two years in a row, American University has had more students chosen to receive Presidential Management Fellowships than any other college or university in

1750-639: The nation's problems. The Sine Institute launched with a conversation between Burwell and Republican Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee. Amy K. Dacey is the first and current executive director of the Sine Institute. The Jack I. and Dorothy G. Bender Library and Learning Resources Center is the main library facility for the campus. The University Library is part of the Washington Research Library Consortium (WRLC), which includes seven other libraries. The WRLC operates

1800-549: The notable stories that first appeared in Folio are Jacob M. Appel 's "Fata Morgana" and "Becoming Coretta Davis" by I. Bennett Capers. On September 24, 2018, AU President Sylvia M. Burwell announced the Sine Institute of Policy and Politics . Taking advantage of AU's location in the nation's capital, the institute will bring together scholars, journalists, and experts from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to find common ground and bipartisan policy solutions to

1850-705: The opening of East Campus. Residence halls on the main campus are grouped into three "campuses". Formerly the Immaculata School, Tenley Campus is located half a mile east of the main campus and was purchased by American University in 1987 specifically for the Washington Semester program. Since 2016, Tenley Campus has been home to American University's law school, the Washington College of Law . Over several years, former dormitory halls and academic buildings were torn down and replaced with many newer, more contemporary academic buildings that now house

1900-463: The postsecondary opportunities for students who are historically disenfranchised and underrepresented on college campuses", and an Institute for Innovation in Education, which "conducts educational and translational research and administers research-informed professional development initiatives to improve teaching and learning in Washington, DC and beyond." The School of Education is located on

1950-432: The prosecution of white supremacists. In 2019, the School of Education (SOE) split from the College of Arts and Sciences. According to Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy (Dean of SOE) the move was made to "encourage more students to pursue careers in education". Areas of study that students can pursue within the school include: teacher education, special education, education policy, and leadership and international education. The school

2000-479: The remainder special students not candidates for a degree. The first commencement was held on June 2, 1915, though no degrees were awarded. The second commencement was held the following year, in 1916, and saw the awarding of the first degrees: one master's degree and two doctor's degrees. AU admitted both women and African Americans, which was uncommon in higher education at the time. Among its first 28 students were five women, while an African American doctoral student

2050-399: The school 8th in the country for preparing future foreign policy professionals and 25th for academic careers. SIS's undergraduate programs earned a spot at number 11, and its graduate programs were ranked number 8. Because the field of international relations is not evaluated by U.S. News & World Report , the College of William and Mary published the results of their survey, which ranked

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2100-475: The school and his administration. AU's relationship with the U.S. government continued during World War II , when the campus hosted the U.S. Navy Bomb Disposal School and a WAVE barracks. For AU's role in these wartime efforts, the Victory ship SS American Victory was named in its honor. The post-World War II period saw considerable growth and restructuring of AU. In 1947, the Washington Semester Program

2150-459: The site of chemical weapons testing; this required a major cleanup effort in the 1990s. Camp Leach was home to advanced research, development, and testing of modern camouflage techniques. As of 2024 , the Army Corps of Engineers was still removing munitions debris. Instruction was first offered only at the graduate level, in accordance with the plan of the founders. This changed in 1925 with

2200-419: The university's use of Khashoggi's name on the building due to his involvement in the international arms trade. In 1988, the College of Public and International Affairs was reorganized to create two free-standing schools: the School of International Service and the School of Public Affairs, incorporating the School of Government and Public Administration and the School of Justice. That same year, construction of

2250-427: Was admitted in 1915. Shortly after these early commencement ceremonies, classes were interrupted by war. During World War I , the university allowed the U.S. military to use some of its grounds for testing. In 1917, the U.S. military divided American University into two segments, Camp American University and Camp Leach . Camp American University became the birthplace of the United States' chemical weapons program and

2300-764: Was broken for the new School of International Service building on November 14, 2007, and completed in 2010. A speech was given by Senator Daniel K. Inouye (D-HI). In 2015, American University began offering an accredited, accelerated online MBA program. In May 2017, Kerwin retired as AU's president. In early August 2023, Sylvia Mathews Burwell announced she would be stepping down as AU's 15th president and continue working for AU's Sine Institute for Policy and Politics. On July 1, 2024, Jonathan Alger became AU's 16th president. In 2017, Taylor Dumpson became AU's first female black student body president. In her first full day in office, bananas were found at three places on campus, hanging from noose-like ropes, and marked with

2350-448: Was established, pioneering the concept of semester-long internships in the nation's capital. In 1949, the university merged with the Washington College of Law , which began in 1896 as the first law school founded by women and the first coeducational institution for the professional study of law in the District. Shortly after that, three departments were reorganized as schools: the School of Business Administration in 1955 (subsequently named

2400-764: Was furthered by President John F. Kennedy 's Spring 1963 commencement address . In the speech, Kennedy called on the Soviet Union to work with the United States to achieve a nuclear test ban treaty and to reduce the considerable international tensions and the specter of nuclear war during that juncture of the Cold War . From 1965 to 1977, the College of Continuing Education existed as a degree-granting college responsible for on- and off-campus adult education programs. The Lucy Webb Hayes School of Nursing provided an undergraduate study in Nursing from 1965 until 1988. In 1972,

2450-495: Was significantly modified over time due to financial constraints. The campus occupies 84 acres (340,000 m ) adjacent to Ward Circle , the intersection of Nebraska and Massachusetts Avenues . AU's campus is predominantly surrounded by the affluent residential neighborhoods characteristic of the Northwest quadrant of Washington, D.C. The campus includes a main quadrangle surrounded by academic buildings, nine residential halls,

2500-494: Was suspended from his position as president of the university on August 24, 2005, pending an investigation into possible misuse of university funds for his personal expenses. University faculty passed votes of no confidence in President Ladner the following month. One month after the faculty vote, the board of trustees decided that Ladner would not return to American University as its president. Cornelius M. Kerwin ,

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