December 24, 2015
Dear AUCA students and alumni, faculty and staff!
Wishing you a Happy New 2016 Year! May your life be filled with happiness, joy and success.
I would like take this opportunity to thank you for your love, support and invaluable contributions to the development of our university. In the past year we have successfully completed many complex tasks that required great dedication, patience and professionalism. I can confidently say that the past year was a landmark in the life of AUCA, full of great achievements and events such as the successful start of new MA program in Psychology, the recognition of our university as one of the 5 top universities in Central Asia and taking 106th place in the QS Ranking of Emerging Europe and Eurasia, attracting new donors and creating a new and more effective organizational chart of AUCA. The most important event I have to emphasize was, of course, the opening of the best innovative project in Central Asia – the new AUCA campus.
Going forward, we intend to continue to grow. AUCA has set ambitious tasks for itself. We intend to intensify work on the improvement of all financial transactions by making them even more transparent and efficient. We intend to provide our academic divisions with greater autonomy in the use of funds. We will continue to work on improving the quality of learning and teaching at AUCA.
Through the joint efforts of our talented and dedicated employees, AUCA intends to improve its position in the rankings to take a leading position in the world in the field of Central Asian Studies.
May the New Year 2016 bring you and your family ever greater success and prosperity.
Yours sincerely,
Andrew B.Wachtel