American University (AU or American) is a private liberal arts and research university in Washington, D.C., United States, affiliated with the United Methodist Church. The university was chartered by an Act of Congress on December 5, 1892 as "The American University," which was approved by President Benjamin Harrison on February 24, 1893. Roughly 6,000 undergraduate students and 3,912 graduate students are currently enrolled. AU is a member of the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area. A member of the Division I Patriot League, its sports teams compete as the American University Eagles.
American's main campus is located at the intersection of Nebraska and Massachusetts Avenues at Ward Circle in the Spring Valley neighborhood of Northwest Washington. The area is served by the Tenleytown-AU station on the Washington Metro subway line in the nearby neighborhood of Tenleytown.
Read more about American University: Campus, Academics, Notable People, Academic Organization, Library System, Athletics, AU Abroad, Public Radio Broadcasts, Technology
Other articles related to "university, american university, american":
... to teach Islamic Thought at the Lebanese University ... In 1964, he was appointed assistant professor at the American University of Beirut (AUB), teaching Arabic Literature and Islamic Thought ... In 1970, he was promoted to the rank of associate professor at the American University of Beirut (AUB), and then he was promoted to the rank of full professor ...
... Al-Quds University (Palestine) * American University in Cairo (Egypt) * American University of Beirut (Lebanon) American University of Kuwait (Kuwait) American ...
... American University was one of the first universities in the nation to adopt wireless technology across all campus buildings back in 2001 ... Shortly after implementing RSS services, the university began providing podcasts for on-demand educational multimedia, such as lectures, playable on such programs as iTunes and ... The University Library also launched a program whereby its Media Services Department began converting films to digital format for exclusive use by faculty in teaching their coursework ...
... The neighborhood houses the main campus of American University at 4400 Massachusetts Avenue, the Wesley Theological Seminary at 4500 Massachusetts Avenue, and Washington College of Law at 4801 Massachusetts Avenue and ... the neighborhood to the northeast is called American University Park, even though the bulk of the main campus is located in Spring Valley ... Square Penn Quarter Shaw West End SW Southwest Federal Center Ward 3 NW American University Park Berkley Cathedral Heights Chevy Chase Cleveland Park Colony Hill Forest ...
... Kuykendall (born February 21, 1982 in Fairfax, Virginia) is a former American soccer player ... His father was inducted into the American University Athletics Hall of Fame in 1997 and was a 1973 All-American goalkeeper ... Both parents attended American University, Washington D.C ...
Famous quotes containing the words university and/or american:
“The great problem of American life [is] the riddle of authority: the difficulty of finding a way, within a liberal and individualistic social order, of living in harmonious and consecrated submission to something larger than oneself.... A yearning for self-transcendence and submission to authority [is] as deeply rooted as the lure of individual liberation.”
—Wilfred M. McClay, educator, author. The Masterless: Self and Society in Modern America, p. 4, University of North Carolina Press (1994)
“We’ll build a democracy here, even if it’s with Nazi bricks.”
—Samuel Fuller, U.S. screenwriter. Samuel Fuller. Captain Harvey, Verboten! American Military Government officer explaining the practicalities of de-Nazification (1959)