On Tuesday, November 29, the AUCA Economics Department welcomed the quest speakers from the World Bank with the theme "A year of Listening in the Kyrgyz Republic".

On November 18, 2022, the Development Office organized the "Kyrgyzstan Climate Educators Network" conference. The project was implemented by Bard College in partnership with AUCA and funded by the U.S. Embassy in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. 

On Friday, November 18th, the Green Day Project hosted a presentation and an Award Ceremony to conclude the efforts and achievements of the participants.

Are you interested in finding out more about civic engagement? What does actually stand behind this appealing term? How does community fit into this term?
If you are interested in any of these questions, the Center for Civic Engagement (CCE) is inviting you to the public lecture and workshop led by two extraordinary scholars from the Institute for Public Life and Work (IPLW), USA - Dr. Harry Boyte and Marie Ström on November 20, 2022!

The recent issue of Ethics & International Affairs, a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, featured an essay written by the president of AUCA, Jonathan Berker. In the essay, Jonathan Beker analyzes the role of U.S. institutions globally and suggests ways in which they can play more constructive roles.

After a long pause, the printed copies of the university newspaper The New Star can be spotted around the campus again. Since the start of the pandemic, when the COVID-19 pandemic forced a temporary switch to online virtual study, The New Star ceased publishing in hardcopy but the paper continued to publish online. Now, as of September 2022, the newspaper is able to publish a print edition, which many students have welcomed warmly.

Tahmina Ustoeva is a senior student of the International and Comparative Politics program who participated in the AUCA exchange program at Bard College, New York, USA. After completing her exchange semester, Tahmina shared her experience with us.

On September 3 and 4, 2022, the Dean of the Department of Applied Geology, Professor Jeenbek Kulenbekov, and the Senior Director of the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine of the USA, Dalal Najib, held an international seminar PEER2PEER.

Guest lecture by Paul Dower, PhD, Assistant Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Paul Dower is a development economist and his research lies at the intersection between political economy, economic history and development economics.

The Orientation Week is designed to support students´ adaptation to campus life. Students had the opportunity to meet their lecturers and professors, elder peers and explore the campus sites. Since the beginning of Orientation Week 2022, we have collected some of freshmens´ impressions here.