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.
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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
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→ Follow the Monttessuy renovations
The Founding Board of the American College in Paris at the inaugural reception in 1962
1964 Students at Reims Cathedral
1967 Board of Trustees
Students studying in between classes at the library 1965
1967 Student Council Election
1964 Steve Isaacson Forward
1967 CP Tip to Hungary and Czechoslovakia
1964 Student Representatives
1964 Students During Class Break
Prof. Spicehandler at the faculty dinner in 1963
1967 Students in ACP Cafeteria
1967 CP Trip to Russia
1964 Jeffrey Durgee Forward
1967 Paris Rooftops from Student Apartment
1964 Impressions From Paris
Student Teri Scotton on a study trip to Mont Saint Michel in 1965
Students attending a class in 1966
Col. Karl Cate speaking to guests at the Inaugural Reception of ACP in 1962
1967 Students
Dr Phillips at a faculty dinner in 1963
ACP faculty talking to students in 1964
Chemistry class at ACP in 1964
Classes at the American Church in Paris in 1963
1964 Students
Students at UNESCO during a Cultural Program study trip in 1964
1967 Students Studying in Class in American Church Basement
The American College in Paris's Inaugural Reception in 1962
AUP Students Deegan and Besson in 1965
Staff helping students get settled in during the orientation in 1964
1967 Students at Lunch During Cultural Program Study Trip
1964 Students at American Church in Paris
Senior Staff
1964 Visiting Theatre Group
Professor of History Dr Lumpkin in 1964
1967 Cheerleaders
1967 Cultural Program Study Trip to Mont Saint Michel
1962 Inaugural Reception of the American College in Paris
Politician Averell Harriman at the ACP commencement ceremony in 1968
Flowers, Brennan, Wolfestein and Dechamotes at a faculty dinner in 1963
1967 - Basketball Team photo
Paris 1964
Students studying in the basement of the American Church in Paris 1964
1967 Students at Judo Training
Welcoming Guests at the Inaugural Reception in 1962
A faculty address in 1967 with Lloyd Delamater and Walter J Brennan
1967 Student Council Elections
1967 Students in Class Drinking Coffee
Students attending a lecture at ACP in 1965
Professors Spicehandler and Hathaway at the faculty dinner in 1963
1964 Delamater
1964 Barry Douglass Forward
1964 Guest Speaker Professor Arthur Sonnerfeld
1967 Group of Students Passing Time in the Student Lounge
Col. Karl Cate in conversation at the Inaugural Reception of ACP in 1962
Richard Nixon visiting ACP in 1967
Students on a Cultural Program study trip in 1962
Prof Sulzberger and students after a lecture in 1963
Faculty addresses students at the orientation in 1964
Montmatre 1964
1964 Players and Coach
George Terry Theriault playing music and singing at the Seine in 1962
Students running down the stairs of Sacre Coeur in 1965
1967 Students Focused on Reading
Joe Ruth by the Seine in 1964
Elke Kauz and Sue Gage ‘64-65
Students Cultural Program Mont Saint Michel
Professor Sulzberger, colleagues and students after a lecture in 1963
Students attending a lecture in 1962
1967 Isle Saint Louis
1967 Cultural Program Study Trip to Hungary
Lloyd Delamater greets Prof. David Schoenbrum after a Lecture in 1964
1964 Guest Speaker Mel Ferrer
Invited Guests Listening to the Speeches at the Inaugural Reception in 1962
1964 Thomas Malone Magazine Editor
1964 The City of Light at Night
ACP Students in class in 1968
Cultural Program study trip to the SHAPE headquarters in 1966
1967 Students at a Bar
1967 First Dance of the Semester
1967 Pierre Maurey Ecoles des Hautes Etudes French
1964 Guest Speaker Richard M Nixon
1967 - Basketball Team having fun
1964 Grant Plemons Center
1967 Two Students Relaxing in the Student Lounge
Lloyd Delamater greets Valedictorian and later board member Judith hermanson Ogilvie in 1965
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1964 ACP Basketball Team
Col. Karl S. Cate and Raymond D. Flowers at a faculty dinner in 1963
Student Liam Humphries in 1965
The American Church in Paris in 1962 was home to many of ACP's classrooms
1964 Gala at Opera Paris
Speakers at ACP's Inaugural Reception in 1962
Prof Schoenbrum and Delamater with a student after a lecture in 1964
1967 Students Having Lunch Together
1967 Cultural Program Study Trip to London
1964 Faculty and Students
1964 Students American Church
Students visiting UNESCO during a study trip in 1963
The Inaugural Reception of ACP in 1962
Students studying in the library in 1965
1964 Student at Reims Cathedral
Students on a study trip to Mont Saint Michel and Normandy in 1964
Speaker at the American College in Paris's Inaugural Reception in 1962
Professor David Pyke in Avignon in 1965
1967 Students During a Study Break
1967 Students at a Celebration
Students on a study trip to the Loire Valley in 1962
1964 Faculty and Staff
Guests waiting for the speeches at the Inaugural Reception in 1962
Conversations among guests, faculty and board members at the Inaugural Reception in 1962
1967 ACP Christmas Ball at Marbeuf
Lloyd Delamater, Suzanne Gage, Linda Scotton and Joe Ruth at the commencement ceremony in 1965
1967 The Eiffel Tower
Student ID card of Barbara Williams in 1965
1967 Cultural Program Study Trip to Fontainbleau
1964 Greg Chodakowski Guard
ACP Registrar Raymond D. Flowers with the Student Council representatives in 1964
1967 Student in Class
Graduate Speaker at the ACP's first graduation ceremony in 1964
Alfonz Lengyel and Students in 1966
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1967 - Basketball Team with names
1967 Student at a Local Bar Playing Pinball
1964 Students from ACP at SHAPE
Students at a library in Paris in 1965
1967 The ACP Choir in the American Church
Founding board member Col. Karl S. Cate in conversation in 1962
1964 Staff and Editors
Guests and family at the Inaugural Reception of the American College in Paris in 1962
1967 Spectators at a ACP Basketball Game
Students protesting in the streets of Paris in 1968
1967 Place de l'Opera
1964 Students Studying for Class
1967 Students Traveled To Fontainbleau
1967 Student Council Meets with Administration
Dr. Lloyd Delamater adressing students at Orientation in 1964
Students studying at the American Church in Paris in 1966
Protests in the streets of Paris in 1968
The 1963 student ID card of Josef Ruth
Prof. David Schoenbrum after a Lecture in 1964
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Lloyd Delamater, speakers, guest and board members at the Inaugural Reception in 1962
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PD/BT TF 004 Tour Eiffel
