Alumni couple Judy and Charles Bush carry deeply imprinted connections to American University. In the decades following their graduation, their interest in the world never waned, nor did their connection to AU.
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Unforeseen life events can arise at any given time—for anyone. And for some families, such hardships put into question whether a student will be able to pay their college tuition as planned.
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Change Can't Wait
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Sara Clarke Kaplan shares her goals as the new executive director of AU’s Antiracist Research and Policy Center—and how philanthropy can help achieve them.
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One of the world’s leading environmental film programs, CEF advances filmmaking, photography, and media to raise awareness, promote solutions, and mobilize movements to effect change.
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Elizabeth (Betsy) Moler, SIS/BA ’71, blazed trails in US energy policy over the course of her long and influential career.
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A matching gift challenge gave three alumnae the opportunity to honor their AU experiences and create change for future AU students, further amplifying why philanthropy at AU matters.
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Gifts to funds that help create an equitable and inclusive American University are growing at a rate of 43 percent year over year. Learn why these funds are at the core of the Change Can’t Wait campaign and how you can get involved.
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AU installed Terry Davidson—a pathbreaking researcher in the effects of diet on the brain and its influence on addiction and other cognitive disorders—as the Trone Family Eminent Scholar Chair, advancing AU’s groundbreaking work in neuroscience.
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At AU’s Washington College of Law, adjunct faculty members wanted to do more than teach their students—so they established a scholarship to help more students access a WCL education.
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