The Board of Trustees of the American University of Central Asia announced today that Andrew Kuchins, a professor at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. and formerly director of the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, will serve as the next President of the University.

Meerim Derbisheva, a junior student of Applied Geology department told about exchange semester at Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)

Read an interview with AUCA faculty, Lucio Valerio Sarandrea who is a Chief of the Protection and Peacebuilding Section. 

AUCA is pleased to invite submissions for the AUCA Campus Design Competition. The purpose is to invite students to create a concept or an idea for improving the AUCA campus’ front yard in order to make it more comfortable and user-friendly for university community and visitors.

Four AUCA students were given the chance to get up close and personal with some of the glaciers in the Kyrgyz Tien Shan Mountains this summer, and to try their hands at helping to answer some of these questions.

From October 9 to October 13 advisors, peer-advisors and students had the privilege to participate in a series of workshops hosted by David Shein, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs & Dean of Studies at Bard College. 

To overcome challenges of learning to express herself, these are the experiences of AUCA senior student Aian Kadyrova during her exchange semester in Bard College, Annandale, New York. Read Aian’s story here:

Originally from Krasnodar, Russia, she graduated from department of Modern Greek Philology of the Kuban State University. Last year she taught English language courses at the Continuing Education Center. In the following interview, Anna talks about teaching and opportunities related to Greek courses.

We continue to write about AUCA students that spend a semester on exchange at various universities around the world. Mohammad Tamim Karimi is a junior student from International and Comparative Politics Department at AUCA. Tamim spent one semester as an exchange student at Bard College Berlin.

AUCA students from Master of Arts in Sociology Iuliia Dorofeeva, Aikanysh Imanova and Bolotbek kyzy Gulzada are continuing their study at Otto von Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany.