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Title: Email From Sylvia Burwell, FY23 Compensation Increases
Date: 2022-06-16
Creator: Sylvia M. Burwell; Beverly Brown
Publisher: Office of the President, American University
Description: An email from Sylvia Burwell outlining regular merit raises as well as an additional 2% increase due to the largest increase in budget in two years. The last paragraph notes that the regular merit raises will not apply to anyone represented by the union bargaining unit.
Subject: unions
Local Identifier: AUStaffUnion_Email_Burwell.June16.2022_0001
Type: unions; electronic mail; protests
Collection: Ephemera, Photos, and Videos
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:101191
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Title: 143rd Commencement Program, American University, Spring 2022
Date: 2022-05
Publisher: American University
Subject: Commencement ceremonies; Education, Higher
Local Identifier: RG9_AU_2022_S
Type: programs (documents)
Collection: American University Commencement Programs
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Title: Trans History at American University: A Brief Sketch
Date: 2021-12-08
Creator: Ferguson, Matt; Masson, Stephen; Zurn, Perry
Description: This chronology of trans history at American University aims to uncover the untold story of trans life on campus. The chronology highlights materials addressing transgender experience, transgender activism, transgender research, and transgender policy, as it intersects with the larger transgender rights movement and policy changes at both the American University and and national levels. This was researched and created by Dr. Perry Zurn, Matt Ferguson, and Stephen Masson during spring 2019 in fulfillment of an Inclusive Excellence Mini-Grant. Zurn, Ferguson, and Masson consulted archival records housed in the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections, as well as in the Center for Diversity and Inclusion and the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program office. The chronology was updated in fall 2021. If you have additional information about the history of trans life at AU, feel free to contact Perry Zurn (pzurn@american.edu).
Subject: Transgender community; Transgender people; Transgender people -- Employment; Transgender college students
Local Identifier: AU_Trans_Experience_Chronology_12.08.21
Type: timelines (chronologies)
Collection: The AU Trans Experience: Then and Now
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:81239
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Title: 142nd Commencement Program, American University, Winter 2021
Date: 2021-12
Publisher: American University
Subject: Commencement ceremonies; Education, Higher
Local Identifier: RG9_AU_2021_W
Type: programs (documents)
Collection: American University Commencement Programs
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Title: One of the First Peace Corps Volunteers Dies on the 60th Anniversary Year of the Peace Corps : William Dennis Grubb : 1941-2021
Date: 2021-11-22
Creator: [Person responsible unknown]
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: Mr. W. Dennis Grubb peacefully entered into eternal rest on October 25, 2021 at home in Washington, D.C., SW after a courageous, multi-year battle with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, a rare form of Parkinson’s. He was 80. The Peace Corps, global development, education, and the church have propelled his lifelong service to help others in nations on five continents. An Eagle Scout, Mr. Grubb joined the-then new Peace Corps at the age of 19 as one of its first and youngest volunteers, and served in Colombia One (1961-1963). He worked in Zipacon, a village 8,700 feet high in the Andes, a place with no running water or sewers, little electricity and few paved roads. Illiteracy, malnutrition, dysentery and tuberculosis were rampant. To address them, Mr. Grubb, Mr. Thomas Whalen, a fellow Volunteer, and the Colombian counterpart (referred to as promotor) assigned to their team by the Office of Community Development in Bogota, formed a liaison between Zipacon and government officials and secured assistance to build the first cooperative food store, a small medical center, three schools, roads, and a water supply pipeline. When the government offered a day of free chest X-rays and vaccinations, he and fellow Volunteers plastered the village with announcements, producing a record turnout upon the doctors arrival. He worked with Colombians of all levels, from rural farmers to national officials, to achieve his overall goal, which was to convince the community that they could control their lives. Mr. Grubb later said that his idealistic view of a peaceful and humane world was formed by his experience in Colombia.
Subject: Obituaries; Peace Corps (U.S.) -- Colombia; Volunteers -- Colombia
Country: Colombia
Subject -- Personal Name: Peace Corps (U.S.)
Local Identifier: PCCA_FOC_Grubb_0003
Type: obituaries
Collection: W. Dennis Grubb Collection, Friends of Colombia Archive
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Title: In Celebration of and in Thanksgiving for the Life of W. Dennis Grubb : April 6, 1941–October 25, 2021
Date: 2021-11-16
Publisher: Washington National Cathedral (Washington, DC)
Description: Funeral program for W. Dennis Grubb, Washington National Cathedral, November 16, 2021. Mr. Grubb was one of the first and youngest participants in the US Peace Corps, beginning his service in Colombia in 1961.
Subject: Funerals
Country: United States
Local Identifier: PCCA_FOC_Grubb_0002
Type: funeral ceremonies
Collection: W. Dennis Grubb Collection, Friends of Colombia Archive
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Title: 141st Commencement Program, American University, Spring 2021
Date: 2021-05
Publisher: American University
Subject: Commencement ceremonies; Education, Higher
Subject -- Personal Name: American University (Washington, D.C.)
Local Identifier: RG9_AU_2021_S
Type: programs (documents)
Collection: American University Commencement Programs
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Title: 140th Commencement Program, American University, Winter 2020
Date: 2020-12
Publisher: American University
Subject: Commencement ceremonies; Education, Higher
Local Identifier: RG9_AU_2020_W
Type: programs (documents)
Collection: American University Commencement Programs
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Title: 139th Commencement Program, American University, Spring 2020
Date: 2020-05
Publisher: American University
Subject: Commencement ceremonies; Education, Higher
Local Identifier: RG9_AU_2020_S
Type: programs (documents)
Collection: American University Commencement Programs
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Title: Faculty Focus, Issue 15, Spring 2020
Date: 2020-02-18
Publisher: American University
Subject: Academic libraries
Type: newsletters
Collection: Faculty Focus
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:94931
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Title: Hawks of the Sun: A Filmscript Autobiographical Story About a Peace Corps Volunteer in Chile (1966-68) Facing the Challenges of Culture and Adaptation
Date: 2020
Creator: Karem, Kenneth
Description: This filmscript describes many events in the two-year Peace Corps service of volunteer Kenny Karem in Chile, working in agriculture, education and forestry. It focuses on his relationships with Chilean friends, co-workers, Mapuche Indians and campesino farmers. It details actual events, cultural happenings, fiestas, cross-cultural snafus, the challenges of adapting to a foreign culture and the tremendous impact politics in Chile had on a volunteer’s service. Two of the scenes, “Coca Cola is Everything and Something More” and “Day of the Dead” were previously published in magazines.
Subject: Volunteers -- Chile -- Motion picture plays
Country: Chile
Local Identifier: PCCA_Karem_0001
Type: screenplays
Collection: Kenneth Karem collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:3162
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Title: Faculty Focus, Issue 14, Fall 2019
Date: 2019-10-10
Publisher: American University
Subject: Academic libraries
Type: newsletters
Collection: Faculty Focus
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:83694
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Title: Faculty Focus, Issue 13, Spring 2019
Date: 2019-04-01
Publisher: American University
Subject: Academic libraries
Type: newsletters
Collection: Faculty Focus
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:81020
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Title: AU Craft of Anthropology (ANTH 601/602) Class Bibliography as of 1/22/19
Date: 2019-01-22
Description: American University Craft of Anthropology (ANTH 601/602) Class Bibliography as of 01/22/19. During academic year 2018-2019, the Craft of Anthropology graduate students worked with and within the Historic African River Road communities of Bethesda, Tobytown, and Scotland. They compiled a bibliography of resources about these communities, and other related topics such as the history of American University's founder and land, Reno City, River Road, local black history in the District, Maryland, and Virginia, descendant communities, and African cemeteries.
Subject: African Americans -- History
Local Identifier: HARRC_bibliography_20190122
Type: bibliographies
Collection: Historic African River Road Connections
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:78384
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