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| + | The '''American University''' ('''AU''' or '''American''') is a [[Private university|private]] [[research university]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] Its main campus spans 90 acres (36 ha) on [[Ward Circle]], in the [[Spring Valley (Washington, D.C.)|Spring Valley]] neighborhood of [[Northwest (Washington, D.C.)|Northwest D.C.]] AU was chartered by an [[Act of Congress]] in 1893 at the urging of [[Methodist]] bishop [[John Fletcher Hurst]], who sought to create an institution that would promote [[public service]], [[Internationalism (politics)|internationalism]], and [[pragmatic idealism]].<ref>http://www.american.edu/trustees/Charter.cfm</ref><ref>{{USStatute|52|160|27|476|1893|02|24|HR|10304}}</ref> AU broke ground in 1902, opened in 1914, and admitted its first undergraduates in 1925. Although affiliated with the [[United Methodist Church]], religious affiliation is not a criterion for admission. | ||
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| + | American University has eight schools and colleges: the [[American University School of International Service|School of International Service]], [[American University College of Arts and Sciences|College of Arts and Sciences]], [[Kogod School of Business]], [[American University School of Communication|School of Communication]], [[School of Professional & Extended Studies|School of Professional and Extended Studies]], [[American University School of Public Affairs|School of Public Affairs]], [[American University School of Education|School of Education]],<ref>https://www.american.edu/soe/|title=School of Education {{!}} American University, Washington, DC|website=American University|language=en|access-date=2019-11-18}}</ref> and the [[Washington College of Law]] (WCL). It has over 160 programs, including 71 bachelor's degrees, 87 master's degrees, and 10 doctoral degrees, as well as [[Juris Doctor Degree|JD]], [[Master of Law|LLM]], and [[Doctor of Juridical Science|SJD]] programs. AU's student body numbers over 13,000 and represents all 50 U.S. states and 141 countries; around a fifth of students are international. It is [[Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education|classified]] among "[[List of research universities in the United States#Universities classified as "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity|R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity]]".<ref>https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=131159 |publisher=Center for Postsecondary Education |website=carnegieclassifications.iu.edu |access-date=28 July 2020}}</ref> | ||
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| + | American University's [[List of American University people|alumni, faculty, and staff]] have included two [[Pulitzer Prize]] winners, two [[Nobel Prize]] winners, one [[United States Senator]], 25 [[United States Representative]]s, 18 [[Ambassadors of the United States]], and several foreign heads of state. American University is one of the top five feeder schools to the [[U.S. Foreign Service]], [[Congressional staff]], and the [[CIA]] ('other governmental agencies' as Wikipedia coyly describes it).<ref>https://schar.gmu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/foreign-service-feeder-schools-1793x1267-1793x1267.jpg |title=Top Foreign Service Feeder Schools |publisher=[[American Foreign Service Association]] |year=2015 |access-date=April 24, 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170104162620/https://schar.gmu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/foreign-service-feeder-schools-1793x1267-1793x1267.jpg |archive-date=January 4, 2017 }}</ref><ref>https://www.legbranch.org/everything-youve-ever-wanted-to-know-about-educational-pipelines-to-capitol-hill/|title=Everything you've ever wanted to know about educational pipelines to capital hill|first=Casey |last=Burgat|date=4 November 2019|via=Legbranch.org}}</ref><ref>https://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/08/magazine/campus-recruiting-and-the-cia.html|title=Campus Recruiting and the C.i.a.|first=David|last=Wise|date=8 June 1986|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref> | ||
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 American University  (University)    | |
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| Motto | Pro deo et patria (Latin) |
| Formation | 24 February 1893 |
| Headquarters | Washington DC, United States |
| Type | Private |
| Slogan | Turn us on 24/7 on campus channels 2 & 15 and online |
| Sponsored by | Carnegie Corporation, Hewlett Foundation, Luminate |
| Other name | Eagles |
| Subpage | •American University/President |
| One of the top five feeder schools to the U.S. Foreign Service, Congressional staff, and the CIA | |
The American University (AU or American) is a private research university in Washington, D.C. Its main campus spans 90 acres (36 ha) on Ward Circle, in the Spring Valley neighborhood of Northwest D.C. AU was chartered by an Act of Congress in 1893 at the urging of Methodist bishop John Fletcher Hurst, who sought to create an institution that would promote public service, internationalism, and pragmatic idealism.[1][2] AU broke ground in 1902, opened in 1914, and admitted its first undergraduates in 1925. Although affiliated with the United Methodist Church, religious affiliation is not a criterion for admission.
American University has eight schools and colleges: the School of International Service, College of Arts and Sciences, Kogod School of Business, School of Communication, School of Professional and Extended Studies, School of Public Affairs, School of Education,[3] and the Washington College of Law (WCL). It has over 160 programs, including 71 bachelor's degrees, 87 master's degrees, and 10 doctoral degrees, as well as JD, LLM, and SJD programs. AU's student body numbers over 13,000 and represents all 50 U.S. states and 141 countries; around a fifth of students are international. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity".[4]
American University's alumni, faculty, and staff have included two Pulitzer Prize winners, two Nobel Prize winners, one United States Senator, 25 United States Representatives, 18 Ambassadors of the United States, and several foreign heads of state. American University is one of the top five feeder schools to the U.S. Foreign Service, Congressional staff, and the CIA ('other governmental agencies' as Wikipedia coyly describes it).[5][6][7]
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
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| Victor Marchetti | “To the Clandestine Services the universities represented fertile territory for recruiting espionage agents. Most large American colleges enrolled substantial numbers of foreign students, and many of these, especially those from the Third World, were (and are) destined to hold high positions in their home countries in a relatively few years. They were much easier to recruit at American schools — when they might have a need for money, where they could be easily compromised, and where foreign security services could not interfere — than they would be when they returned home. To spot and evaluate these students, the Clandestine Services maintained a contractual relationship with key professors on numerous campuses. When a professor had picked out a likely candidate, he notified his contact at the CIA and, on occasion, participated in the actual recruitment attempt. Some professors performed these services without being on a formal retainer. Others actively participated in agency covert operations by serving as "cut-outs," or intermediaries, and even by carrying out secret missions during foreign journeys.” | Victor Marchetti | 1974 |
| Victor Marchetti | “Helms asked his staff to find out just how many university personnel were under secret contract to the CIA. After a few days of investigation, senior CIA officers reported back that they could not find the answer. Helms immediately ordered a full study of the situation, and after more than a month of searching records all over the agency, a report was handed in to Helms listing hundreds of professors and administrators on over a hundred campuses. But the staff officers who compiled the report knew that their work was incomplete . Within weeks, another campus connection was exposed in the press. The contact was not on the list that had been compiled for the Director.” | Victor Marchetti | 1974 |
Sponsors
| Event | Description |
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| Carnegie Corporation | Established by Andrew Carnegie in 1911, with large grants especially to form the education sector. Lots of grants to "security" think tanks too. |
| Hewlett Foundation | Huge foundation setting the agenda by funding lots of deep state projects. |
| Luminate | Pierre Omidyar's foundation for financing global media and civil society groups. It is unknown how close it coordinates with certain deep state US government agencies. |
Alumni on Wikispooks
| Person | Born | Died | Nationality | Summary | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Myron Brilliant | Businessperson | Bridge between the business world and the intelligence-connected organizations. Also lobbyist for free trade agreements. | |||
| Graham Brookie | Deep state functionary "Terror expert" | "Former U.S. government advisor on homeland security and counterterrorism" connected to the Integrity Initiative/Institute for Statecraft complex | |||
| Robert Byrd | 20 November 1917 | 28 June 2010 | |||
| Herman J. Cohen | 10 February 1932 | US | Diplomat | ||
| Michael Cohen | 25 August 1966 | Lawyer Fraudster | A fraudulent US lawyer "who came out of nowhere to occupy a prominent spot in Trump’s orbit," found dead in 2021. | ||
| William Corson | 25 September 1925 | 17 July 2000 | Spook Soldier Academic | Spook and counterinsurgency expert who became became critical of the "American intelligence empire". Unofficial adviser to Frank Church and the Senate Intelligence Activities Committee. | |
| Theodore Couloumbis | 1935 | Greece | Academic | Greek academic with close ties to the United States. | |
| Nonie Darwish | 1948 | US | Journalist | ||
| Kenneth Duberstein | 21 April 1944 | Civil servant | President Ronald Reagan's White House Chief of Staff from 1988 to 1989. | ||
| Jeffrey Gedmin | 1958 | Academic Neoconservatism | US spooky/hawkish neoconservative academic | ||
| Julie Inman Grant | Australia US | Spook Lobbyist Censorship | According to herself "turned down" CIA employment, before working 17 years for Microsoft. Then she became Australia's online censorship commissioner who wants to "recalibrate" freedom of speech. | ||
| Richard Gutjahr | 1973 | German | Journalist | A spookily prescient journalist who just happened to be situated twice in two weeks to shoot video of "terrorist" attacks. | |
| Robert Kagan | 26 September 1958 | US | Neoconservatism Deep state operative | Co-founder of the Project for the New American Century | |
| Michael Kempner | 31 January 1958 | Businessperson | |||
| Christina Markus Lassen | Denmark | Diplomat | Danish diplomat. Ambassador to Syria 2009-2012, including when the 2011 regime change proxy war started. Attended Bilderberg 2015 as EU Ambassador to Lebanon. From 2022 Ambassador to the United States. | ||
| Betsy Fischer Martin | 17 February 1970 | US | Journalist | TV news executive at NBC's Meet the Press, an agenda-setter on corporate television, and Managing Editor of Political Programming at NBC News. Selected a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2008. | |
| Munira Mustaffa | Spook "Terror expert" | ||||
| Bruce Schneier | 15 January 1963 | Author Academic | An expert on cryptography, who has written over a dozen books on the subject. | ||
| Christopher Sharpley | US | Spook Deep state operative | |||
| Frances Townsend | 28 December 1961 | ||||
| Lodewijk J. R. de Vink | February 1945 | Netherlands US | Businessperson | Dutch Bilderberger Big Pharma executive | |
| Quintan Wiktorowicz | 1970 | US | Academic "Terror expert" |
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References
- ↑ http://www.american.edu/trustees/Charter.cfm
- ↑ Pub.L. 52–160, H.R. 10304, 27 Stat. 476, enacted February 24, 1893
- ↑ https://www.american.edu/soe/%7Ctitle=School of Education | American University, Washington, DC|website=American University|language=en|access-date=2019-11-18}}
- ↑ https://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/lookup/view_institution.php?unit_id=131159 |publisher=Center for Postsecondary Education |website=carnegieclassifications.iu.edu |access-date=28 July 2020}}
- ↑ https://schar.gmu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/foreign-service-feeder-schools-1793x1267-1793x1267.jpg |title=Top Foreign Service Feeder Schools |publisher=American Foreign Service Association |year=2015 |access-date=April 24, 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170104162620/https://schar.gmu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/foreign-service-feeder-schools-1793x1267-1793x1267.jpg |archive-date=January 4, 2017 }}
- ↑ https://www.legbranch.org/everything-youve-ever-wanted-to-know-about-educational-pipelines-to-capitol-hill/%7Ctitle=Everything you've ever wanted to know about educational pipelines to capital hill|first=Casey |last=Burgat|date=4 November 2019|via=Legbranch.org}}
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/1986/06/08/magazine/campus-recruiting-and-the-cia.html%7Ctitle=Campus Recruiting and the C.i.a.|first=David|last=Wise|date=8 June 1986|via=NYTimes.com}}
