| The American University of Paris | |
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| Motto | Knowledge, perspective, understanding. |
| Established | 1962 |
| Type | private |
| President | Celeste Schenck[1] |
| Faculty | 105 [2] |
| Students | 1,000 [2] |
| Location | Paris, Ile-de-France, France 48°51′32″N 2°18′13″E / 48.8590°N 2.3037°ECoordinates: 48°51′32″N 2°18′13″E / 48.8590°N 2.3037°E |
| Campus | Urban, eight buildings |
| Website | www.aup.fr |
The American University of Paris (commonly referred to as AUP) is a private, independent, and accredited liberal arts and sciences university in Paris, France. Founded in 1962, the university is the oldest American institution of higher education in Europe. AUP’s mission is to educate generations of academic, social, political, intellectual, and business citizens of the world, and to enhance the advancement of scholarship in the arts and sciences in an international, multicultural, and plural environment. The university campus consists of eight buildings, centrally located in the seventh arrondissement of Paris, on the Left Bank near the Eiffel Tower, Les Invalides, and the Seine.[3]
The university's language of instruction is English, although students must prove a level of proficiency in French prior to graduation.[4] The university has approximately one thousand students, representing over a hundred nationalities, with an average student-to-faculty ratio of eighteen to one. The university's faculty members represent over fifteen nationalities, with eighty percent holding doctoral degrees.
The university sponsors more than two hundred lectures and seminars every year, exposing students to a wide range of topics. Recent lecturers at AUP have included Jane Goodall, National Geographic photojournalist Reza, and Calvin Klein. Additionally, the university has hosted ten international conferences, inviting an aggregate of over a thousand scholars, including Gary Becker, Nobel Prize-recipient of Economics in 1992, mayor of Leningrad; scholar and Russian legislator Anatoly Sobchak; and Michel Rocard, the former Prime Minister of France.[5]
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The American University of Paris is accredited in the United States by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. The university is a non-profit educational institution incorporated in the State of Delaware and licensed by the State Board of Education as an institution of higher education[6]. The university is also recognized in the United States as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, and is declared to the Rectorat de Paris as an établissement privé d'enseignement supérieur libre.
The Institut de Commerce International et des Sciences de l'Information (ICISI), which includes the Departments of International Business Administration, International Economics, Computer Science, Mathematics and Science is recognized by the French Ministry of Education as an Etablissement d’enseignement technique privé.[7]
The university offers 14 majors and 30 minors in its undergraduate program, along with courses covering a wide array of other liberal arts subjects, including Anthropology, Art History, Astronomy, Biology, Drama, Fine Arts, Gender Studies, Mathematics, Music, Physics, Sociology, and Languages, including Arabic, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Latin, and Ancient Greek.
The university's academic departments include:
The university offers eight graduate programs:
The university is clustered among eight historic buildings in the seventh arrondissement of Paris, on the left bank. One of the university's buildings houses The Combes Gallery. The gallery was created in 2003 by Ralph Petty, who is the university's Curator and an Associate Professor of Fine Arts at the University. The cultural mission of the gallery is to present works of art created by the university's students, alumni, and faculty, as well as to highlight the university's cultural diversity through the exhibition of works by professional artists from different backgrounds and cultures. The mission of the gallery has recently been expanded to include works of a humanitarian nature, including works by children in Darfur and works by the children of imprisoned parents.
Located near the Eiffel Tower, and within walking distance of the Champs-Elysées, the Louvre, and the Quartier Latin, the university has about 1,100 students with over 95 nationalities represented on campus.
Almost any class of 20 students has about fifteen nationalities, with many of the world’s cultures and religions represented. Americans represent about one third of the student body, Europeans (from more than twenty-five countries) another third, and the final third come about evenly from the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Students have the opportunity to learn and meet other students through a large number of clubs and organizations. Some of the most popular include the Jane Goodall Institute's Roots & Shoots, AUPPA (student political association), WhiteMask Theatre club, AUP Student Health Committee, Cooking Club, AUP’s award-winning debate club, Model United Nations, Photo Club, and the SGA. The university's AMEX café has bi-monthly Open Mic Nights.
Students also manage several student-run publications, including the biweekly student newspaper, The Planet; Core, AUP’s humanities journal; Scripta Politica et Economica; and Paris/Atlantic, a journal of creative work.
Students live off campus, many near the university. The Housing Office helps AUP students find lodging in chambres de bonne (small, private rooms generally found on the top floor of older French apartment buildings), with French hosts, or in apartments.
The AUP Library houses more than 72,000 books and more than 6,000 print and electronic periodicals. Other databases, as well as a document delivery service, facilitate materials that are not owned by the library.
ARC@AUP (the Academic Resource Center) is a project designed to link technology to the curriculum and to supplement academic support services at AUP. On the ground floor of the Grenelle Building, ARC provides multiple services to students, including library research stations and video production equipment. Peer tutoring services, including the Writing Lab, are also available in the ARC space.
There are five student computer labs containing 100 IBM and Macintosh computers. Students have free e-mail accounts and Internet access as well as use of a variety of software, printers, projectors, and scanners.
Dan Brown featured the university in his novel The Da Vinci Code. The university and its campus were the location for a lecture on symbolism by lead character Robert Langdon.
Individuals of note who have attended the university include:
| The American University of Paris | |
|---|---|
| File:American University of Paris | |
| Motto | Knowledge, perspective, understanding. |
| Established | 1962 |
| Type | private |
| President | Celeste Schenck[1] |
| Academic staff | 105 [2] |
| Students | 1,000 [2] |
| Location |
Paris, Ile-de-France, France 48°51′32″N 2°18′13″E / 48.8590°N 2.3037°ECoordinates: 48°51′32″N 2°18′13″E / 48.8590°N 2.3037°E |
| Campus | Urban, eight buildings |
| Website | www.aup.fr |
The American University of Paris (commonly referred to as AUP) is a private, independent, and accredited liberal arts and sciences university in Paris, France. Founded in 1962, the university is the oldest American institution of higher education in Europe. The university campus consists of eight buildings, centrally located in the seventh arrondissement of Paris, on the Left Bank near the Eiffel Tower, Les Invalides, and the Seine.[3]
AUP’s mission is to educate generations of academic, social, political, intellectual, and business citizens of the world, and to enhance the advancement of scholarship in the arts and sciences in an international, multicultural, and plural environment.
The university's language of instruction is English, although students must prove a level of proficiency in French prior to graduation.[4] The university has approximately one thousand students, representing over a hundred nationalities, with an average student-to-faculty ratio of eighteen to one. The university's faculty members represent over fifteen nationalities, with eighty percent holding doctoral degrees.
The university sponsors more than two hundred lectures and seminars every year, exposing students to a wide range of topics. Recent lecturers at AUP have included Jane Goodall, National Geographic photojournalist Reza, and Calvin Klein. Additionally, the university has hosted ten international conferences, inviting an aggregate of over a thousand scholars, including Gary Becker, Nobel Prize-recipient of Economics in 1992, mayor of Leningrad scholar and Russian legislator Anatoly Sobchak, and Michel Rocard, the former Prime Minister of France.[5]
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The American University of Paris is accredited in the United States by the Commission on Higher Education of the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools. The university is incorporated in the State of Delaware and licensed by the State Board of Education as an institution of higher education[6]. The university is also recognized in the United States as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, and is declared to the Rectorat de Paris as an établissement privé d'enseignement supérieur libre.
The Institut de Commerce International et des Sciences de l'Information (ICISI), which includes the Departments of International Business Administration, International Economics, Computer Science, Mathematics and Science is recognized by the French Ministry of Education as an Etablissement d’enseignement technique privé.[7]
The university offers 14 majors and 30 minors in its undergraduate program, along with courses covering a wide array of other liberal arts subjects, including Anthropology, Art History, Astronomy, Biology, Drama, Fine Arts, Gender Studies, Mathematics, Music, Physics, Sociology, and Languages, including Arabic, German, Italian, Spanish, French, Latin, and Ancient Greek.
The university's academic departments include:
The university offers eight graduate programs:
The university is clustered among eight historic buildings in the seventh arrondissement of Paris, on the left bank, located near the Eiffel Tower, and within walking distance of the Champs-Elysées, the Louvre, and the Quartier Latin.
One of the university's buildings houses the Combes Gallery.[8] The gallery was created in 2003 by Ralph Petty, who is the university's Curator and an Associate Professor of Fine Arts.
The university has about 1,100 students with over 95 nationalities represented on campus.
Almost any class of 20 students has about fifteen nationalities, with many of the world’s cultures and religions represented. Americans represent about one third of the student body, Europeans (from more than twenty-five countries) another third, and the final third come about evenly from the Middle East, Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Students have the opportunity to learn and meet other students through a large number of clubs and organizations. Some of the most popular include the Jane Goodall Institute's Roots & Shoots, AUPPA (student political association), WhiteMask Theatre club, AUP Student Health Committee, Cooking Club, AUP’s award-winning debate club, Model United Nations, Photo Club, and the SGA. The university's AMEX café has bi-monthly Open Mic Nights.
Students also manage several student-run publications, including the biweekly student newspaper, The Planet; Core, AUP’s humanities journal; Scripta Politica et Economica; and Paris/Atlantic, a journal of creative work.
Students live off campus, many near the university. The Housing Office helps AUP students find lodging in chambres de bonne (small, private rooms generally found on the top floor of older French apartment buildings), with French hosts, or in apartments.
The AUP Library houses more than 72,000 books and more than 6,000 print and electronic periodicals. Other databases, as well as a document delivery service, facilitate materials that are not owned by the library.
ARC@AUP (the Academic Resource Center) is a project designed to link technology to the curriculum and to supplement academic support services at AUP. On the ground floor of the Grenelle Building, ARC provides multiple services to students, including library research stations and video production equipment. Peer tutoring services, including the Writing Lab, are also available in the ARC space.
There are five student computer labs containing 100 IBM and Macintosh computers. Students have free e-mail accounts and Internet access as well as use of a variety of software, printers, projectors, and scanners.
Dan Brown featured the university in his novel The Da Vinci Code. The university and its campus were the location for a lecture on symbolism by lead character Robert Langdon.
Individuals of note who have attended the university include:[citation needed]
   | aup.fr - Welcome to The American University of Paris |
| | The American University of Paris - Welcome to The American University of Paris |
| | The Student Government Association of AUP - AUP Student Government Association |
| | The Planet, the student newspaper of AUP - AUP Student Government Association |
| | AUP Student Media - AUP Student Government Association |
| | Baruch College, Zicklin School of Business - Zicklin School Of Business - Baruch College - CUNY |
| | Institut Catholique de Paris - Bienvenue sur le portail de notre université - Institut Catholique de Paris |
| | The Student Government Association of AUP - AUP Student Government Association |
| | AUP Student Media - AUP STUDENT MEDIA | tv / radio / print :// |
| | AUP President Gerardo della Paolera speaks to students about the Ile Seguin project - paname | events | Gerardo della Paolera: Ile Seguin Presentation |
| | ETHERYL S.A.S. - Etheryl - The Collaborative Thinking Solution |
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