The University announced the creation of the Committee on the Future of the American University, which includes 18 professors representing eight undergraduate colleges and five graduate colleges.

Sylvia Burwell has announced her intent to step down as president of American University, at the end of this academic year. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images) Add two more names to the list of high-profile university presidents recently announcing their ...

American University announced that this will be Sylvia Burwell's final year as president of the institution. In a video published on AU's Instagram page, Burwell, the first woman to serve as the university's president, said she and her husband reached the ...

W hen Laurence Veysey’s The Emergence of the American University was published in 1965, it was quickly recognized as a landmark in the history of higher education. The book, Veysey’s first, sketched the competing ideas of academic purpose that gave ...

Once again this fall, about 1 million international students — and it would be more, if we let them in — have flocked to American colleges and universities. Indeed, it seems that what the world still most wants from us, besides our pop stars, fast food ...

Editor’s Note (Friday, 7:05 p.m.): American University confirmed Friday morning that the unidentified man who climbed the radio tower has died. The D.C. college called the situation unfortunate and tragic. The scene remains an active investigation.

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It’s not easy to be a Jew at an American university today. As one student tearfully explained to me, “We’re exhausted and we’re beleaguered and no one seems to understand.” University administrators have indeed mostly failed their Jewish students ...

In a video interview, John Friedman, the inaugural dean of Brown’s new Watson School of International and Public Affairs, explains why upward mobility matters.

WASHINGTON — American University said a "very small number" of employees were laid off, two days after the college's student news organization reported that around 40 people were quietly let go at the beginning of June. The Eagle, the school's student ...

Civil discourse might not be the phrase that first comes to mind when most people think about Washington these days, but there’s one place in the nation’s capital where it is a daily practice: American University. When Jonathan Alger became the 16 th ...