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Fall 2017, the American University of Central Asia (AUCA) will officially open its program in Gender Studies. AUCA’s program in Gender Studies is the first academic program of its kind in Central Asia and an important step in looking at gender relations within the nation, the region, and the world.

On June 1, the Law Division of the American University of Central Asia in partnership with the Constitutional Chamber of the Supreme Court of the Kyrgyz Republic and with the support of the USAID / IDLO Kyrgyzstan Judicial Strengthening Program, conducted the first national moot court competition in constitutionalism “Adilet 2017”.

Tian-Shan Policy Center AUCA researchers Tatyana Zlobina, Asyl Balybaeva and Natalya Dolinskaya have elaborated a methodology to monitor implementation of KR laws on a commission by International Organization for Migration (IOM).
Methodology is so much unified that it can be used to only by noncommercial organization within the country, but by state bodies aiming to monitor implementation of any laws.

The American University of Central Asia and the University of Indiana plan to hold a biannual two-day workshop highlighting emerging trends in the scholarship on Central Eurasia.

Dimitri Rechov is an exchange student from Sciences Po Paris in France. He told us about his experience in Kyrgyzstan and AUCA.

Within the USAID Building the Future project's research component, academic writing and publishing seminar will be organized on June 7-9, 2017 in room 220 at AUCA. The topic of seminar is "How to get published in high impact journals?" The seminar will be conducted by Alexandr Kupatadze from King's College London.

AUCA alumni have gone on to achieve many great things after graduation, across numerous career paths. Meerim Karybaeva is one of them. She is currently working at the Regional Firm Centil as the Senior Associate.

In 2012, the process of creating shyrdaks was included in UNESCO's List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safekeeping. AUCA alumna Aliya Rakhman co-founded Nakta Designs to sell handmade rugs (shyrdak) and accessories created by talented artisans from Kyrgyzstan, investing and directly contributing to a sustainable development of the small businesses led by women artisans in low-income rural communities.

AUCA was one of the first universities in Kyrgyzstan that developed and launched a migration training course for its students entitled "Migration and Development". The two-year pilot course at AUCA proved its effectiveness.
In 2017 it is planned, in agreement with the Ministry of Education and Science of the Kyrgyz Republic, to offer this course for reading in other higher educational institutions of the republic - not only in Bishkek, but also in the regions.

American University of Central Asia will present Masters programs MBA, LLM and MSc in Economics in Dushanbe and Khudjand! Dushanbe, 25th of May, 17:30, conference hall in "Rudaki Plaza", Rudaki Avenue 113.Khudjand, 27th of May, 10:00, conference hall in "Kohi Matbuot" building, Micro region 20.