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American University (AU or American) is a private federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C., United States. Its main campus spans 90 acres (36 ha) on Ward Circle , mostly in the Spring Valley neighborhood of Northwest D.C.
The University of the District of Columbia is Washington, D.C.'s largest public university (with an enrollment of 5,110 students) and its oldest historically black university. [7] It is also DC's sole land-grant university. [10]
Ground broken to establish American University 2. Bishop Charles Cardwell McCabe: 1902–1906: 3. Franklin E. Hamilton: 1907–1916: First class admitted 4. Bishop John W. Hamilton: 1916–1922: Campus turned into Camp Leach and Camp American University: 5. Lucius C. Clark: 1922–1933: First undergraduates graduate 6. Joseph M. M. Gray: 1933 ...
The Washington College of Law is located on American University's Tenley Campus at 4300 Nebraska Avenue NW. on the northwest edge of Washington, D.C., approximately 1 mile from the Maryland state line. Construction on the Tenley Campus was completed in early 2016 and included three primary buildings:
US Federal Reserve Vice Chair for Supervision Michael Barr speaks at the American University School of Public Affairs graduation ceremony in 2024. The School of Public Affairs was created on March 3, 1934 with a $4,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to provide training to 80 promising young federal government employees in downtown Washington, D.C.
Via the Alper Initiative for Washington Art, [7] [8] the museum also focuses exhibitions on Washington, DC area artists, and is dedicated to preserving, presenting, and creating the art history of Washington through a book collection, database, events, and exhibitions.
Camp Leach, formerly known as the American University Experimental Station and Camp American University, was a World War I era United States Army camp built by the Corps of Engineers on American University property in Washington, D.C. It was named in honor of Colonel Smith S. Leach, Corps of Engineers.
The McKinley Building was the second building constructed on the American University campus, built in 1907, in northwest Washington, D.C. McKinley was designed by Henry Ives Cobb, well known for his architectural work in Chicago. The McKinley Building became the new home for the School of Communication after renovations were completed in 2014.