To view content in this collection use the search box above or click to browse by title, author, subject, or date. Aretthe title of the Center for Teaching Excellence's (CTE) faculty newsletter, is the Greek term often equated, seamlessly, with the English words 'virtue', 'excellence', 'goodness' and 'knowledge.' It embodies a belief that "the highest human potential is knowledge and all other human abilities are derived from this central capacity." The publishing of Areteased in Spring 2009 prior to the renaming of the Center for Teaching Excellence as the Center for Teaching, Research, and Learning.
To view content in this collection use the search box above or click to browse by title, author, subject, or date.For more information about the Art History department at American University, visit their home page.
This collection of photographs documents the early history of American University and its campus in northwest Washington D.C., near Ward Circle, at the intersection of Massachusetts and Nebraska Avenues. The Collection includes photographs of Fort Gaines, the Civil War era Union Army fortification which was on the site that later became the American University campus. Photographs trace the physical development of the campus from the groundbreaking for its first building in 1896, through rapid growth in the 1920's, up to the mid 1960's. The Collection includes photographs from World War I when the campus housed the U.S. Army's Camp Leach and Camp AU and World War II when the campus housed the U.S. Navy Bomb Disposal School and an American Red Cross school for nurses. There are photographs of the University's founders, chancellors and presidents and of prominent officials who visited the campus, including Presidents Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Also included are photographs of commencement ceremonies from 1916 through 1970.
The AU Reporter is a weekly newsletter of official information for the American University community. It publishes statements of policy, announcements of appointments, new or revised regulations, reports from University governance bodies, and serves as a general newsletter for faculty and staff.
