Stephen Lioy is a travel photographer, journalist, and the previous Editor-in-Chief of AUCA Magazine. In this interview Stephen tells us about himself, his adventures, and his special love towards Kyrgyzstan’s nature and culture.

The Global Centre for Pluralism (GCP), in partnership with the Central Asian Studies Institute at the American University of Central Asia (AUCA), OSCE Academy in Bishkek, the French Institute for Central Asian Studies (IFEAC), Bishkek Humanities University and Osh State University is pleased to announce a call for applications for Central Asian nationals to join an innovative History Project.

 
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February 10, 2016
Raisa Belyavina, PhD Candidate, Teachers College, Columbia University, CASI Visiting Scholar
Abstract:
To address the challenges of attracting new teachers to the profession and reducing highly overburdened teaching loads assigned to teachers, the Kyrgyz Republic implemented a new teacher salary structure in 2011, which eliminated the Soviet-era stavka system and replaced it with a workload system that is common around the world.

CASI Research seminar: "Implementing a new salary structure in Bishkek schools: How reforms change schools and schools change reforms". Speaker: Raisa Belyavina, PhD Candidate, Teachers College, Columbia University. Date: February 10, 2016.

Marcos Cisneros, the current editor-in-chief of AUCA Magazine, spent a week in Osh Kyrgyzstan teaching a series of seminars at the Osh Pedagogical Institute for the Humanities (OGPI).

On January 26th, 2016, Diversity Week began at the American University of Central Asia. Sixteen delegations are represented in this year. Representatives from a few delegations shared their thoughts and

Görkem Atsungur has been an assistant professor in the European Studies Department since 2012. Atsungur shares with us his journey to AUCA and some of the work he has done since.

January 19, 2016, AUCA President Andrew Wachtel personally congratulated Umed Narzikulov and Baibagysh Nazarbaev, seniors in Business Administration and Economics, on the successful launch of their handmade footwear business in the Kyrgyz Republic.

Nuriza Begalieva, a Senior in the European Studies department, spent an exchange semester this spring at Sciences Po, Reims, in France. There she studied the politics of France and the European Union while also improving her French.

On November 6th of 2015, the AUCA Student Senate held elections with an electronic voting system and a biometric system of authentication. 10 students were elected to the Student Senate.