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CAMPUS CULTURE & ENVIRONMENT   

American University is commited to supporting employees with a well-rounded and intensely engaged community. Listed below are just a few highlights of the AU Community.   

Academic/Intellectual Work Environment

• Diverse, international perspective: student body represents all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the territories and about 150 foreign countries
• Wireless campus
• Award-winning NPR Radio Station, WAMU 88.5FM
• 35-hour work week in most departments
• Casual Fridays in many departments
• Faculty and staff involvement in university committees and project teams
• Comprehensive recycling program
• Lectures, symposiums
• Weekly sporting events

Cultural Events

• Visiting Writers Series
• CAS Music in the Atrium Series
• Concerts – jazz, choral, classical, rock and comedy
• Dance performances
• Theatre productions

Independent Coeducational University

• AU offers 53 bachelor's programs; 47 master's programs; 8 doctoral programs; JD and LL and SJD, certificate programs and associate degrees
• AU Abroad offers 50 study abroad programs in 30 countries (from Argentina to the United Arab Emirates) in any of 9 languages
• 160 clubs and organizations; 11 fraternities and 12 sororities; and varsity, recreational, and intramural sports
• 11,748 students enrolled: 5,662 (294 part-time) are undergraduates 3,392 are graduate or professional students 1,042 are non-degree, certificate, and Washington Semester and AU Abroad programs
• Chartered by an Act of Congress in 1893
• Consortium of Universities of the Metropolitan Washington Area: members may take advantage of the course and library resources offered by the other 12 consortium member schools

University Facilities
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• Award-winning Campus Landscaping a residential area of upper northwest Washington, D.C
• 76-acre main campus and 8-acre Tenley satellite campus are within one mile of each other. The Washington College of Law is located on Massachusetts Avenue, a half mile from the main campus.
• Housing for about 4,000 students
• Interdenominational religious center
• Specialized natural science facilities
• Computing center open 24 hours a day, plus 13 computer laboratories around campus
• Two electronic auditoriums (one includes video conferencing capabilities)
• Numerous classrooms with the latest in multimedia presentation capability
• Radio and television studios
• Recital halls
• Comprehensive, multipurpose sports and convocation center
• Katzen Arts Center
• Jacob's Fitness Center
• Harold and Sylvia Greenberg Theatre

contact: careers@american.edu
Mailing Address:
4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20016-8054   

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