Three AUCA offices - the Center for Civic Engagement, Office for Extracurricular Activities of Students and Kitchennet - declare tomorrow, November 2, Pumpkin Day and invite everyone to taste pumpkin dishes rescued after Halloween!

The recent issue of Ethics & International Affairs, a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, featured an essay written by the president of AUCA, Jonathan Berker. In the essay, Jonathan Beker analyzes the role of U.S. institutions globally and suggests ways in which they can play more constructive roles.

AUCA is the first university in Central Asia to offer its students two diplomas simultaneously upon graduation: US accredited degrees in liberal arts programs through a partnership with Bard College in the United States  and Kyrgyz accredited degrees issued by The Ministry of Education and Science
 

A new, very useful book has appeared on the shelves of the AUCA library - “Republican Mathematical Olympiads 2020-21 and 2021-22.

On June 11, a graduation ceremony was held at the American University of Central Asia.

Madina Ibraeva is pursuing a master degree in sociology department at AUCA and was accepted at the University of Lille for an exchange period in the Fall Semester 2021 in the framework of the Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility programme.

On December 14, 2021, Jonathan Becker, Acting President of the American University of Central Asia and Vice Chancellor of the Open Society University Network, joined the showcase of students’ projects organized by AUCA’s Center for Civic Engagement (CCE).

On December 2, a guest lecture by Ryan Schmedding, a researcher at the US Embassy, was held in an online format, organized by the AUCA Center for Environmental Studies and Development (CED), the Alliance of Universities of the Kyrgyz Republic for Green Economy and Sustainable Development (AVZUR) together with the US Embassy in the Kyrgyz Republic.

Literature Week is a part of CASI’s Workshop on Literature and History. Supported by a generous contribution from Matthew Nimetz, the aim of the workshop is to create a community of junior scholars and advanced graduate students committed to studying literature and to applying literary tools and methodologies to the study of literary art in the Central Asian past. 

Last Saturday, an event dedicated to the memory of Fatima Natasha Khalil was held in the Elm Grove (Карагачевая Роща). It was organized by the AUCA's Center for Civic Engagement (CCE) in cooperation with the French-Kyrgyz Ecotourism Association (AFKE)