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AUP Student Shines Light on Women’s Leadership at 2023 Women’s Forum in Paris
none Morgan Smith is a current AUP student in MSc Strategic Brand Management and an alum of the undergraduate International Business Administration program. She was recently invited to attend the Women’s Forum Global Meeting held in Paris which ran from ...
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Women Leading Globally: Fashion
none Charla Carter entered the Parisian fashion world at a time when fashion was high fashion, and it had the power to satisfy a certain woman’s desires for beauty. However, after 30 years working in the heart of the industry, she realized that fashion as ...
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A Splendid Global Table: AUP Alums Dish on Careers in the Food Industry
none The conversation in the Library Atrium sizzled last month at the AUP Alumni in Food Roundtable. In a discussion moderated by Christy Shields, Associate Professor of Global Communications, four AUP alumni with thriving professions in the food industry ...
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From a Francophone Perspective: Gender and Race in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games
none Article written by AUP Assistant Professor Caroline Laurent, French Studies and Modern Languages Department Since 2016, through its Olympics Art Visions programme, the Olympic Foundation for Culture and Heritage has commissioned a sculpture to repres ...
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Carrying James Baldwin: Frontline Prophet Exhibit at AUP Celebrates His Birthday, Journey, and Legacy
none In 1948, seeking refuge from racial and sexual discrimination in the United States, the renowned Harlem-born writer and social visionary James Baldwin moved to Paris. There, and during his ensuing years as an expatriate in Europe, Turkey, and souther ...
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Three New Majors for the New Academic Year
none At AUP, you’ll get to experience what the French call “ la rentrée,” a period of reflection and renewal that follows summer vacation and sets you up for the new academic year. This time around, our academic community is also engaging in renewal; AUP ...
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Tanya Elder Deepens Understanding of Experiential Learning through Qualitative Research
none For Tanya Elder, experiential learning means learning about learning. As Professor of Communications in AUP’s Master’s in Global Communications, Elder has been pioneering experiential learning in sustainable development, anthropology and communicatio ...
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Voices of the Global Majority Promotes Emancipation Through Education
none The student-led club Voices of the Global Majority emerged from a deep-seated need felt among students to bring underrepresented perspectives into the academic conversation. “We wanted to give center stage to voices that have historically resisted co ...
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Reclaiming History through Color and Joy: the Visionary Art of Maya Freelon
When artist and educator Maya Freelon '00 was a girl, her grandmother taught her to quilt–and to stitch together far more than fabric. In her grandmother’s hands, quilting was an act of interconnectedness and creativity rooted in their family’s legac ...
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Kristina Keenan Named First Woman to Lead Legislative Advocacy at Veterans of Foreign Wars
Last month, Kristina Keenan ’08 became the first woman veteran to direct the National Legislative Service (NLS) of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), the United States’s oldest major war veterans’ service organization. A passionate, globally-minded leade ...