The Community Gallery features photos from the University's archives along with submissions from community members. We’ll reveal a new gallery each month.
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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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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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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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1964 Thomas Malone Magazine Editor
Students protesting in the streets of Paris in 1968
1967 Spectators at a ACP Basketball Game
1964 Student Representatives
Students at a library in Paris in 1965
1964 Guest Speaker Richard M Nixon
Col. Karl Cate in conversation at the Inaugural Reception of ACP in 1962
1964 ACP Basketball Team
1967 Students in ACP Cafeteria
1964 Steve Isaacson Forward
The American Church in Paris in 1962 was home to many of ACP's classrooms
1964 Students at American Church in Paris
1964 Students
1964 Students American Church
The Founding Board of the American College in Paris at the inaugural reception in 1962
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Students on a study trip to Mont Saint Michel and Normandy in 1964
1967 Students at Judo Training
PD/BT TF 004 Tour Eiffel
Faculty addresses students at the orientation in 1964
Invited Guests Listening to the Speeches at the Inaugural Reception in 1962
1967 The Eiffel Tower
1967 Cultural Program Study Trip to Mont Saint Michel
Students attending a lecture at ACP in 1965
ACP Registrar Raymond D. Flowers with the Student Council representatives in 1964
Elke Kauz and Sue Gage ‘64-65
1967 Students Traveled To Fontainbleau
1964 Impressions From Paris
1967 CP Tip to Hungary and Czechoslovakia
1967 CP Trip to Russia
Lloyd Delamater, speakers, guest and board members at the Inaugural Reception in 1962
1967 Students
1964 Gala at Opera Paris
1967 Cheerleaders
Richard Nixon visiting ACP in 1967
1967 Students Studying in Class in American Church Basement
1967 Cultural Program Study Trip to Hungary
Prof Schoenbrum and Delamater with a student after a lecture in 1964
Professor of History Dr Lumpkin in 1964
Col. Karl Cate speaking to guests at the Inaugural Reception of ACP in 1962
1967 ACP Christmas Ball at Marbeuf
1964 The City of Light at Night
Students studying in between classes at the library 1965
Joe Ruth by the Seine in 1964
Paris 1964
Montmatre 1964
1967 Student Council Meets with Administration
Students at UNESCO during a Cultural Program study trip in 1964
Students studying in the basement of the American Church in Paris 1964
Lloyd Delamater, Suzanne Gage, Linda Scotton and Joe Ruth at the commencement ceremony in 1965
ACP Students in class in 1968
Guests waiting for the speeches at the Inaugural Reception in 1962
1964 Students at Reims Cathedral
1967 Board of Trustees
1967 Cultural Program Study Trip to London
Professor Sulzberger, colleagues and students after a lecture in 1963
Classes at the American Church in Paris in 1963
Student Teri Scotton on a study trip to Mont Saint Michel in 1965
Students visiting UNESCO during a study trip in 1963
ACP faculty talking to students in 1964
Speakers at ACP's Inaugural Reception in 1962
1964 Students Studying for Class
Professors Spicehandler and Hathaway at the faculty dinner in 1963
A faculty address in 1967 with Lloyd Delamater and Walter J Brennan
Student Liam Humphries in 1965
The Inaugural Reception of ACP in 1962
Politician Averell Harriman at the ACP commencement ceremony in 1968
Prof. Spicehandler at the faculty dinner in 1963
AUP Students Deegan and Besson in 1965
1964 Grant Plemons Center
1962 Inaugural Reception of the American College in Paris
1967 Pierre Maurey Ecoles des Hautes Etudes French
1967 - Basketball Team with names
Prof. David Schoenbrum after a Lecture in 1964
1967 Group of Students Passing Time in the Student Lounge
Students studying at the American Church in Paris in 1966
1967 - Basketball Team having fun
Dr Phillips at a faculty dinner in 1963
1964 Players and Coach
PD/BT TF 006 Champs Elysees
PD/PS TF002 Sacre Coeur
1967 Students at a Bar
Students Cultural Program Mont Saint Michel
Students attending a lecture in 1962
1964 Staff and Editors
1964 Faculty and Students
1964 Guest Speaker Mel Ferrer
1967 Students Having Lunch Together
Protests in the streets of Paris in 1968
Cultural Program study trip to the SHAPE headquarters in 1966
1967 Student Council Elections
Students on a Cultural Program study trip in 1962
Senior Staff
Speaker at the American College in Paris's Inaugural Reception in 1962
1967 First Dance of the Semester
Professor David Pyke in Avignon in 1965
1967 The ACP Choir in the American Church
1967 Student at a Local Bar Playing Pinball
Conversations among guests, faculty and board members at the Inaugural Reception in 1962
1964 Students During Class Break
1967 Students at a Celebration
Lloyd Delamater greets Valedictorian and later board member Judith hermanson Ogilvie in 1965
Welcoming Guests at the Inaugural Reception in 1962
1967 - Basketball Team photo
Lloyd Delamater greets Prof. David Schoenbrum after a Lecture in 1964
1967 Students in Class Drinking Coffee
1967 Students Focused on Reading
1964 Jeffrey Durgee Forward
1964 Greg Chodakowski Guard
Students attending a class in 1966
1967 Place de l'Opera
Students studying in the library in 1965
Alfonz Lengyel and Students in 1966
Col. Karl S. Cate and Raymond D. Flowers at a faculty dinner in 1963
1964 Delamater
1964 Students from ACP at SHAPE
Student ID card of Barbara Williams in 1965
1967 Cultural Program Study Trip to Fontainbleau
Flowers, Brennan, Wolfestein and Dechamotes at a faculty dinner in 1963
Students running down the stairs of Sacre Coeur in 1965
1964 Guest Speaker Professor Arthur Sonnerfeld
1967 Paris Rooftops from Student Apartment
1967 Two Students Relaxing in the Student Lounge
1967 Student Council Election
1964 Barry Douglass Forward
George Terry Theriault playing music and singing at the Seine in 1962
1964 Student at Reims Cathedral
Graduate Speaker at the ACP's first graduation ceremony in 1964
The 1963 student ID card of Josef Ruth
1967 Students at Lunch During Cultural Program Study Trip
Guests and family at the Inaugural Reception of the American College in Paris in 1962
1967 Student in Class
Founding board member Col. Karl S. Cate in conversation in 1962
1964 Visiting Theatre Group
Staff helping students get settled in during the orientation in 1964
Students on a study trip to the Loire Valley in 1962
Prof Sulzberger and students after a lecture in 1963
Chemistry class at ACP in 1964
Dr. Lloyd Delamater adressing students at Orientation in 1964
PD/BT 007 Notre Dame
1967 Students During a Study Break
The American College in Paris's Inaugural Reception in 1962
1964 Faculty and Staff
1967 Isle Saint Louis
