American University

American University, located in Washington, DC, and affiliated with the United Methodist Church, was chartered in 1893 by an Act of the United States Congress and admitted its first class in 1914. It currently has more than 5,000 undergraduate students from the U.S. and more than 100 countries.

It consists of the College of Arts and Sciences, a School of Business, School of Communication, School of International Service, School of Public Affairs, and a College of Law.

Its website states that its radio station WAMU 88.5 "has more than 575,900 listeners and is the leading public radio station for NPR news and information in the local area."

Centers, Institutes and Special Programs
Links for each entity are located.
 * American University of Sharjah
 * AU Abroad
 * AU-OPM Executive Master
 * Center for Asian Studies
 * Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies
 * Center for Democracy and Election Management (CDEM)
 * Center for Global Peace
 * Center for the Global South
 * Center for Islamic Peace
 * Center for Israeli Studies
 * Center for North American Studies
 * Center for the Study of Rulemaking
 * Center for Social Media
 * Council on Comparative Studies (CCS)
 * Global Intellectual Property Project (GLIPP)
 * Graduate Research Center on Europe
 * Institute for Strategic Communication for Nonprofits
 * Institute for the Study of Public Policy Implementation (ISPPI)
 * Intercultural Management Institute
 * Justice Programs Office
 * Key Executive Program
 * Kogod's Center for IT & Global Economy
 * National Center for Health and Fitness
 * National Training Laboratory Program (AU/NTL)
 * Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC)
 * Washington Internship for Native Students (WINS)
 * Washington Semester Program
 * Women & Politics Institute

Board of Trustees
Officers 2007-2009
 * Gary M. Abramson, Chairman; Partner, The Tower Companies, North Bethesda, MD
 * Thomas A. Gottschalk, Vice Chairman; Executive Vice President, Law and Public Policy, and General Counsel, General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI

Trustees The following are members of the board of trustees, as of June 2008:


 * Cornelius M. Kerwin, President, American University, Washington, DC
 * Gina F. Adams, Corporate Vice President, FedEx Corporation
 * Stephanie M. Bennett-Smith, President Emerita, Centenary College, Hackettstown, NJ
 * Richard Beyer, President, Trimble Company
 * Patrick Butler, Vice President, The Washington Post Company
 * David M. Carmen, President and CEO, Carmen Group Inc., Washington, DC
 * Edward R. Carr, President (retired), CarrHomes, Inc., Falls Church, VA
 * Jack C. Cassell, President and CEO, Visual Aids Electronics & Conference Systems, Inc., Germantown, MD
 * Gary D. Cohn, President and Co-Chief Operating Officer, Goldman Sachs & Co., New York, NY
 * Pamela M. Deese, Partner, Arent Fox PLLC, Washington, DC
 * Jerome King Del Pino, General Secretary, General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, United Methodist Church, Nashville, TN
 * David R. Drobis, Chairman Emeritus, Ketchum Worldwide, Naples, FL
 * Marc N. Duber, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, The Bernstein Companies
 * Fuad El-Hibri, President, East West Resources Corp., Rockville, MD
 * Hani M.S. Farsi, Managing Director and Chairman, Reservoir Management Services Ltd., London, England
 * C.A. Daniel Gasby, CEO, B Smith Enterprises, Ltd.
 * Gisela B. Huberman, President, GBH Radio, Inc., Fisher Island, FL
 * C. Nicholas Keating, Jr., President and CEO, Network Equipment Technologies, Fremont, CA
 * Margery Kraus, President and CEO, APCO Worldwide, Washington, DC
 * Charles H. Lydecker, Executive Vice President, Brown & Brown, Inc., Daytona Beach, FL
 * Robyn Rafferty Mathias, Principal (retired), Rolling Terrace Elementary School, Bethesda, MD
 * Alan L. Meltzer, Founder & CEO, The Meltzer Group
 * Regina L. Muehlhauser, President (retired), Bank of America San Francisco, Pleasanton, CA
 * Arthur J. Rothkopf, Senior Vice President and Counselor to the President, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Washington, DC
 * Mark L. Schneider, Senior Vice President, International Crisis Group, Washington, DC
 * John R. Schol, Bishop, Baltimore-Washington Conference of The United Methodist Church, Washington, DC
 * Neal A. Sharma, CEO, Digital Evolution Group, Overland Park, KS
 * Stephen Silvia, Faculty Trustee
 * Jeffrey A. Sine, Vice Chairman and Global Head of Telecommunication and Technology, UBS Securities LLC, New York, NY
 * David Teslicko, Student Trustee, BA candidate, School of Public Affairs
 * Gary R. Weaver, Professor of International Service and Past Chair of the Faculty Senate

Former:
 * Matthew S. Pittinsky, Chairman and Co-Founder, Blackboard, Inc., Washington, DC

Contact information
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20016 Phone: 202 885-1000 Website: http://www.american.edu

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 * Chris O'Brien - Director of Sustainability

Profiles

 * American University in the Wikipedia.
 * Evan Coyne Maloney, "Indoctrinate U Trailer" posted on YouTube, March 18, 2007.

External articles

 * Joseph Farah, "Taxpayer dollars support U.S.-Mexico merger plot. 'Continental future' promoted at elite, tax-funded American University center," WorldNetDaily, October 17, 2006.
 * Jan Allen, "Taxpayer Dollars Support 'Continental Future' At American University," Age Of Tyranny News, October 18, 2006.