The Community Gallery features photos from the University's archives along with submissions from community members. We’ll reveal a new gallery each month.
Meet some of the many people who have impacted AUP.
Explore 60 years of history with our interactive timeline and discover key moments that have shaped our global community.
1962: ACP charter signed
1979: AMEX Café opens
1987: Inaugural World's Fair
2005: First master's program
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Take a look back at past ACP and AUP logos.
Read the 60th-anniversary edition of the AUP Magazine, featuring stories from across the community.
"...PROOF. Proof that you can have people from all over the world, from all sides of life, come together to work, live, learn and play. Proof that the best way forward on this planet is to acknowledge and respect our differences, while also learning to adapt and serve each other."
Seena M. Haddad '12
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From March 21-27, the AUP community celebrated our first-ever Founding Week
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Browse the event galleries featuring photos and impressions from AUP's anniversary events.
→ Discover AUP's new logo
As AUP celebrates its 60th anniversary, it is also launching a new strategic plan that reaffirms its commitment to providing a student-centered, academically rigorous, career-enabling and transformative learning experience to the global explorers who are its students. The new plan focuses on five key pillars:
Curriculum Communications Community Campus Continuous Improvement
→ Learn about AUP's future
→ Follow the Monttessuy renovations
1964 Barry Douglass Forward
1967 Students Focused on Reading
The Founding Board of the American College in Paris at the inaugural reception in 1962
Classes at the American Church in Paris in 1963
1967 Students in ACP Cafeteria
1964 Impressions From Paris
1967 - Basketball Team photo
Students studying at the American Church in Paris in 1966
Staff helping students get settled in during the orientation in 1964
1964 Students American Church
1967 Student Council Election
Students studying in between classes at the library 1965
AUP Students Deegan and Besson in 1965
1964 Guest Speaker Richard M Nixon
1967 Students at a Bar
1962 Inaugural Reception of the American College in Paris
1967 Cheerleaders
PD/BT TF 004 Tour Eiffel
1964 Jeffrey Durgee Forward
1964 Staff and Editors
1964 Delamater
1964 Students
1967 ACP Christmas Ball at Marbeuf
1967 Students at a Celebration
ACP Registrar Raymond D. Flowers with the Student Council representatives in 1964
1967 First Dance of the Semester
Col. Karl Cate in conversation at the Inaugural Reception of ACP in 1962
Speakers at ACP's Inaugural Reception in 1962
The Inaugural Reception of ACP in 1962
1967 Students at Judo Training
Students studying in the basement of the American Church in Paris 1964
Students attending a lecture at ACP in 1965
Col. Karl Cate speaking to guests at the Inaugural Reception of ACP in 1962
1967 Students During a Study Break
1967 Student Council Elections
1967 Board of Trustees
1967 Student in Class
1964 Guest Speaker Mel Ferrer
1964 Students During Class Break
Joe Ruth by the Seine in 1964
1967 - Basketball Team with names
1964 Visiting Theatre Group
1967 Two Students Relaxing in the Student Lounge
1967 Spectators at a ACP Basketball Game
Alfonz Lengyel and Students in 1966
PD/BT 007 Notre Dame
1967 Cultural Program Study Trip to Fontainbleau
1967 The Eiffel Tower
1967 Place de l'Opera
1967 Pierre Maurey Ecoles des Hautes Etudes French
Speaker at the American College in Paris's Inaugural Reception in 1962
George Terry Theriault playing music and singing at the Seine in 1962
1964 Students at American Church in Paris
Students protesting in the streets of Paris in 1968
1967 CP Trip to Russia
Students on a study trip to the Loire Valley in 1962
Students at UNESCO during a Cultural Program study trip in 1964
PD/PS TF002 Sacre Coeur
Professor of History Dr Lumpkin in 1964
ACP Students in class in 1968
1964 Student at Reims Cathedral
Students visiting UNESCO during a study trip in 1963
Col. Karl S. Cate and Raymond D. Flowers at a faculty dinner in 1963
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1964 Gala at Opera Paris
1964 Faculty and Staff
1964 Students Studying for Class
Guests and family at the Inaugural Reception of the American College in Paris in 1962
Welcoming Guests at the Inaugural Reception in 1962
Dr. Lloyd Delamater adressing students at Orientation in 1964
A faculty address in 1967 with Lloyd Delamater and Walter J Brennan
Student Liam Humphries in 1965
1967 The ACP Choir in the American Church
1967 Student at a Local Bar Playing Pinball
Cultural Program study trip to the SHAPE headquarters in 1966
1964 Students from ACP at SHAPE
1967 Student Council Meets with Administration
1964 Students at Reims Cathedral
1964 ACP Basketball Team
Professor Sulzberger, colleagues and students after a lecture in 1963
1964 Steve Isaacson Forward
1964 Greg Chodakowski Guard
1967 Students at Lunch During Cultural Program Study Trip
Faculty addresses students at the orientation in 1964
Prof Sulzberger and students after a lecture in 1963
The 1963 student ID card of Josef Ruth
1967 Students Traveled To Fontainbleau
PD/BT TF 006 Champs Elysees
Students Cultural Program Mont Saint Michel
Professors Spicehandler and Hathaway at the faculty dinner in 1963
1964 Thomas Malone Magazine Editor
The American College in Paris's Inaugural Reception in 1962
Prof. Spicehandler at the faculty dinner in 1963
Chemistry class at ACP in 1964
Students on a Cultural Program study trip in 1962
1964 Faculty and Students
1964 The City of Light at Night
1967 CP Tip to Hungary and Czechoslovakia
Students on a study trip to Mont Saint Michel and Normandy in 1964
Professor David Pyke in Avignon in 1965
1964 Student Representatives
1967 Students Studying in Class in American Church Basement
1964 Players and Coach
Guests waiting for the speeches at the Inaugural Reception in 1962
Students attending a class in 1966
Student ID card of Barbara Williams in 1965
1967 Paris Rooftops from Student Apartment
1967 Students
1967 - Basketball Team having fun
Founding board member Col. Karl S. Cate in conversation in 1962
Students running down the stairs of Sacre Coeur in 1965
Students attending a lecture in 1962
1964 Grant Plemons Center
Prof. David Schoenbrum after a Lecture in 1964
1967 Students Having Lunch Together
Dr Phillips at a faculty dinner in 1963
Prof Schoenbrum and Delamater with a student after a lecture in 1964
Student Teri Scotton on a study trip to Mont Saint Michel in 1965
Students at a library in Paris in 1965
Richard Nixon visiting ACP in 1967
The American Church in Paris in 1962 was home to many of ACP's classrooms
Lloyd Delamater, Suzanne Gage, Linda Scotton and Joe Ruth at the commencement ceremony in 1965
1967 Students in Class Drinking Coffee
Students studying in the library in 1965
Montmatre 1964
1967 Group of Students Passing Time in the Student Lounge
1967 Isle Saint Louis
Graduate Speaker at the ACP's first graduation ceremony in 1964
Flowers, Brennan, Wolfestein and Dechamotes at a faculty dinner in 1963
Lloyd Delamater greets Valedictorian and later board member Judith hermanson Ogilvie in 1965
Politician Averell Harriman at the ACP commencement ceremony in 1968
ACP faculty talking to students in 1964
1967 Cultural Program Study Trip to London
Elke Kauz and Sue Gage ‘64-65
1964 Guest Speaker Professor Arthur Sonnerfeld
1967 Cultural Program Study Trip to Mont Saint Michel
Invited Guests Listening to the Speeches at the Inaugural Reception in 1962
Lloyd Delamater greets Prof. David Schoenbrum after a Lecture in 1964
Paris 1964
1967 Cultural Program Study Trip to Hungary
Conversations among guests, faculty and board members at the Inaugural Reception in 1962
Senior Staff
Lloyd Delamater, speakers, guest and board members at the Inaugural Reception in 1962
Protests in the streets of Paris in 1968
