Is your student interested in helping welcome new Eagles to campus this fall (a paid job opportunity)? 

AU is hiring Orientation Leaders (OLs) to welcome and support incoming first-year students, transfer students and their families. OLs will lead group sessions and activities in the New Student Orientation program during Welcome Week and Extended Orientation programming during the first several weeks of the semester. 

OLs help introduce new students to university resources, to exploring our campus and city, and to meeting other Eagles -- ensuring a successful start to their time to AU!

For more information and to view the full position description, click below.

Apply by June 30, 2024.

Startup and Standout is a two-week long online/virtual celebration of entrepreneurship and innovation. Through entrepreneurship panels, workshops, and our Startup & Standout Solution Slam Pitch Competition (for $10,000 cash), AU students learn from, interact with, and become confident, impactful entrepreneurs. The program is designed to promote creativity, critical thinking, and perseverance, and to encourage risk-taking and problem-solving.  

Through the Startup & Standout Solution Slam Pitch Competition, students work in teams of three to four to identify a pressing social problem and create a solution to benefit society.

Students will develop their new idea into a two-minute video pitch for a new product or service designed to make meaningful change and will submit their videos online. Judges from the AU Community will select the finalists and the top three finishers will share $10,000 in prize money! Register by July 5, 2024.

On or about July 1, an email will be sent to your student and their proxy notifying them that their bill is ready to be viewed on the payment portal. If your student has made you their proxy, you will receive the email as well.

Please note that housing and dining charges and financial aid will be added later in the summer, and the fall payment is due on August 1.

Tambra Raye Stevenson, SOC/MA ’22, wants to help her community take back the kitchen. Thanks to Black women leaders in agriculture, nutrition, and dietetics—or “food sheroes,” as she calls them—the slow bake of cultural change has already begun. Stevenson, a doctoral student in AU’s School of Communication, has dedicated the last 20 years to advancing food justice.

On April 28, a group of American University physics students and faculty launched a high-altitude balloon from Virgnia's Brookneal-Campbell County Airport, capturing breathtaking photos and invaluable data from the stratosphere.

The team, backed by financial support from SIS, helps students learn about diplomacy and international relations and find community at AU.

AU’s School of International Service will welcome five new full-time faculty members in academic year 2024–25.