On April 23, 2016, the American University of Central Asia (AUCA) will be holding a Career Fair open to the community. Gulnur Esenalieva, the director of AUCA’s Career Center spoke to us about the value of career fairs and why students should be excited to attend.

March 2 and 3, 2016, two representatives from the U.S. Department of State in Kabul, Grants Program Specialist Lynn Walroth and Cultural Affairs Assistant Janet Thompson, visited AUCA. The goal of their visit was to checkup on existing policies and discuss ideas for the future of the partnership.

January 27, 2016 the Deputy Chief of Mission in the U.S. Embassy in Kyrgyzstan Alan Meltzer visited AUCA and talked to students about the U.S. presidential election process.

AUCA library is happy to offer the upgraded collection of “Education USA” materials. If you look for the latest preparations tests (TOEFL, GRE, GMAT), handbooks on writing winning college essays, and other great books about the U.S. higher education, come the library.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Austria, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan from October 28 to November 3. In Bishkek, the Secretary will participate in the opening of the new campus of the American University of Central Asia and dedicate the new chancery of the U.S. Embassy.

On September 8, 2015 a group of enthusiastic students from the American University of Central Asia had the opportunity to have a conversation with the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, Nisha Desai Biswal, and the U.S. Ambassador to the Kyrgyz Republic Sheila Gwaltney.

Svetlana Dzardanova is a 2007 graduate of AUCA’s Psychology department. Originally, from Turkmenistan, Svetlana currently lives in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. After graduation from AUCA she matriculated to the MA program at Bishkek’s OSCE Academy and was offered a job at the Academy upon graduation, where she currently works as Research and Training Coordinator.
 

Originally from New Rochelle, NY, Neil is a 4th year university student majoring in International Relations and Russian with the focus on the former Soviet Union. It’s been almost a year since he arrived in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, on the scholarship to study Central Asian Politics, Russian and Uzbek.
 

Six AUCA students from Afghanistan were recently accepted for an International Women's Leadership Program known as Women2Women, which will take place in Boston (USA) on July 29 - August 8.
 

Every year, the American embassy in Kabul helps Afghan students to finance their studies at the American University of Central Asia. Sahar Hashimzada is a graduate student from the International and Comparative Politic Department, and she shares some memories about her time in Bishkek with us.