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
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Screenwriting Class
AUP Basketball 2008
SGA Party in Fall 2005
The bar at Plaza Madeleine during Halloween in 2005
AUP Student in discussion 1
Graduation 2003 05
Students during a concert at the AMEX Cafe in 2003
Studying over coffee
Celeste Inauguration 2008
2006 World Cup
Students waiting to receive their diplomas in 2001
Students on AUP campus
Open Mic in the AMEX in 2005
Students performing the musical Rent in Spring 2001
Clubs Night in 2005
Gala Dinner with Family after Graduation in May 2002
Thanksgiving Dinner in 2001
Conversation under La Tour Eiffel
Students around Paris 2
Photographer Reza Event 2008
Freshman Reception in the Grenelle Gardens in Fall 2004
Students shopping for art supplies
Students in Class 6
Prof Rahnema and others during Graduation 2001
AUP students in Venice in 2006
Students waiting for the next Orientation Session in Fall 2004
Entrance to 31 Avenue Bosquet in 2004
2005 Fake Canadians
The Core Journal Team in 2004
Students at the AUP Talent Show in April 2006
Graduation 2003 01
Prof Baltay and students on a study trip to London in 2004
Prof Rosenstein at Graduation 2002 with students
Ibrahim Ousmane and Chakera Macintosh outside the Bosquet entrance in 2003
Studying with a view of Paris rooftops 1
Jam session at the Amex in 2003
The SGA Office in Bosquet in 2001
Metro Ecole Militaire in 2002
The Paris-Atlantic team in Fall 2004
Art History Conference 2003
Receiving your diploma on stage in 2001
Playing games during Orientation in Fall 2001
Overview of the AMEX Cafe
Screenwriting 2000 03
Studying in the AUP Library in 2003
Students on a study trip to Mali in 2006
Conversation and Coffee
Student Orientation 2008
Painting class
Delicious Food everywhere at Worlds Fair in 2006
Louvre Sky
AUP students at dinner during the 2004 London study trip
Happy students after graduation in 2001
A group of performers at the AUP Talent Show in April 2006
Paris at Sunset
Students at Grenelle
Students around Paris 4
Check-in during Orientation in Fall 2000
Group study session in the Library in 2003
Chess Club in 2006
AUP students shopping on Rue Cler 1
Buying a newspaper
Sightseeing in the city
Debate 2008
Students at Cafe Le Nemours
Study trip to Venice in 2006
Behind the bar of the AMEX Cafe
Students in Class 7
Painting Class
2005 NYE
Try the Food at the Swedish Booth in 2006
Students at Clubs Night in 2005
The Nigerian table at Worlds Fair in 2003
AUP students goofing in front of the camera in 2004
British students enjoying Worlds Fair 2001
Campus Tour 2
AUP Students at the AMEX Cafe
Stacy, Lia, Butch and Kat in 2004
Students in Paris 02
Mike Simpson in 2001
Students posing at the Hawaiian Boat Party in Fall 2001
Students enjoying Worlds Fair in Spring 2005
AUP Students at Thanksgiving in 2005
Graduation with Dana in 2006
Having fun at AUP Fall Festival in 2005
Graduation Ceremony in 2000
Studying at the AMEX Cafe
Lunch in Prague during a study trip in 2000
2005 Disco Party
Trip to Musee Rodin 2
Using a museum as a classroom
Students in Class 16
Students enjoying Sauerkraut during Octoberfest in Fall 2000
Students in Class 18
Students in Class 11
Student Advisors taking a break on the Grenelle lawn in 2003 during Orientation
Students sharing lunch at the Fall Festival in 2005
AUP Publications
Time to sign up for a club at Clubs Night in 2005
Computers in the early 2000s at AUP
Students in conversation at Champ de Mars
Waiting for Graduation to start in May 2002
Dance Performance at the AUP Talent Show in 2006
Students hanging out in the Grenelle Gardens in 2001
The SGA and friends at the Alumni Reception in Fall 2004
Students Learning at Cafe
Campus Tour
Students in Class 5
Students learning about AUP clubs in 2005
Students Doing Laundry
Students playing soccer on the beach
SGA at Work in Fall 2001
Graduation 2003
Marc Montheard and other checking in students in Fall 2000
Friends hanging out in the AMEX Cafe in 2003
AMEX Cafe
At the bar/AMEX Cafe
Swedish and Norwegian tables at Worlds Fair in 2003
Going over student work
A group of AUP students in 2006
Students goofing around in 2002
Guitar Play 2005
Students Learning 1
A couple of friends at the Latin American Fiesta in Spring 2006
Back to School Party in 2005
Getting some Pringles during class break in 2003
AUP students enjoying Worlds Fair 2006
Study session over Paris
Students in Galleries Lafayette 1
Students At Monttessuy
Students in Class 1
Students with Prof. Blatt on a study trip in 2003
Students hanging out in the Grenelle Gardens during Freshman Reception in 2004
Baby foot at the AMEX Cafe
Home Visit
Notre Dame 2001
An audience at the Debate Club Invitational with Sciences Po in 2004
Students at Orientation Celebration in Fall 2001
Studying under La Tour Eiffel
Students at the cinema
AUP Worlds Fair 2006 in the Combes Grans Salons
AUP students posing for the camera in 2006
Two students at the Latin American Fiesta in Spring 2006
AUP Students at Clubs Night in 2005
Students at the Taiwan table during Worlds Fair in 2001
AUP students in the AMEX in 2006
Student Playing PingPong 2001
Students reading a newspaper
Students enjoying the Hawaiian Boat Party in Fall 2001
A trip to Disneyland Paris in 2004
Students in Brussels in March 2003
Room shot at the AMEX Cafe
Students in Berlin on a study trip in 2002
Acrobatics on the Champs de Mars in 2006
AUP students at the 2005 Halloween Party
Students in Class 9
Worlds Fair at AUP in 2001
Professor leading class
Students in Galleries Lafayette
SGA Booze Cruise
Graduation 2003 02
Playing Backgammon in the AMEX Cafe in 2004
The Spring 2005 Back to School Party at Espace Madeleine
Students on a study trip in London in 2003
Shopping for sweets in Paris
Student gathering at the AMEX Cafe
The Jardin des Tuileries in 2006
Friends celebrating at the Graduation Gala in 2002
Prof Gardener and students on a study trip in Florence in 2003
Thanksgiving 2005 in the Grand Salons in Bosquet
Students in Class 13
AMEX Cafe Barista
Quick chat at the AMEX Cafe
Students around Paris 3
Check-in at the FIAP for Spring 2000 Orientation
Students advertising their clubs at Clubs Night in 2005
Fall 2001 Orientation with AUP Student Advisors
Students around Paris
AUP Student studying on the quai
AUP students dancing in the AMEX in 2001
Students reading Le Figaro at Centre Georges Pompidou
NATO EU Conference 2001 03
Amazed by the architecture in Rome on a study trip in 2006
Pumpkin Carving in the Fall of 2002
Deep study session in the Library in 2003
Students at Le Cafe Marly
Two students at Halloween in October 2005
AUP Student in discussion
Students at Louvre Cafe
Students listening during the Iraq War talk in 2002
Students at Fall 2001 Orientation
Two AUP students in 2006
The Lebanese table at Worlds Fair in 2003
Students at Grenelle 1
Prof. Lacaze and students on a study trip to Rome in 2002
Trip to Musee Rodin 1
Celebrating graduation at the Gala in 2002
The Turkish table at Worlds Fair in 2001
AUP students during the 2004 study trip to London
Kevin Fore and students at Fall Festival 2005
Students on the terrace of the Combes building in 2001
Students hanging out with Prof. Waddick Doyle in the AMEX Cafe
AUP student buying art supplies
The Spanish table at Worlds Fair in 2001
Students having a good time at the Back To School party in 2005
Orientation at the FIAP in Fall 2004
Prof. Dan Gunn and students on a study trip to Napoli and Capri in 2002
Octoberfest in the AMEX Cafe in 2000
AUP students celebrating at Worlds Fair in 2001
AUP students in 2001
The Rent Musical Cast in Spring 2001
Louvre
Group photo on a study trip to Berlin in 2002
Computer Graphics 2001 09
Students in class in 2001
AUP Students shopping at Galleries Lafayette
Students Learning
Students during the Rent performance in 2001
Students signing up for student media at clubs at Clubs Night in 2005
Students at AUP Annual Worlds Fair in Spring 2006
NATO EU Conference 2001 04
Students playing Backgammon at AMEX Cafe
New students enjoying the Bateau Mouche ride during Spring 2003
Prof Gardener and students on a study trip to Brussels and Brugers in 2003
Students at AUPs Fall Fest in 2001
The Welcome Reception in 2004
Students at Centre Pompidou
Enjoying the rides at Disneyland Paris in 2004
Students taking a group photo during a study trip to Prague in Spring 2000
Students signing up for clubs at Clubs Night in 2005
Students at Louvre Cafe 1
Freshman enjoying the welcome reception in Grenelle in 2004
AUP Students in Fall 2004
Computer Graphics 2001 08
Quick chat in front of the Eiffel Tower
AUP Sommeliers
Computer Graphics
Students at Place du Palais Royal
AUP students playing American football on the Invalides Esplanade
The stage during Graduation in 2001
Student Advisor Joumana Hassan and new student David Matta during Spring Orientation 2003
Students in Class 2000 03
Students on a study trip to Rome in 2006
AUP Computer Graphics class 1
Students in Class 3
Hanging out with friends in 2004 at AUP
AUP students during Check-in at Orientation in Fall 2004
Students posing for the camera on a study trip to Prague 2006
Friends enjoying the Thanksgiving Dinner together in 2000
Students in Class in 2006
Students in the AMEX in 2002
Lunch at a study trip to Bayeux with Prof McGuinness
AUP students dressing up for Halloween in 2005
Excited new and returning students during Spring 2000 orientation
Graduates of the class of 2002 preparing for the gala
Trip to Musee Rodin
Campus Tour 1
Students At Monttessuy 1
Getting ready for Graduation in May 2002
Students at the Hawaiian Boat Party in Fall 2001
Professional dancers at the Latin American Fiesta in Spring 2006
Back to School Party with Celebrating Students in 2005
AUP Friends hanging out on the Champs de Mars in 2006
Students in Class 10
Students playing Twister in Fall 2004
Students hanging out in the AMEX Cafe in 2002
Intense Backgammon game at the AMEX Cafe
Students mingle at Clubs Night in Spring 2006
Students on a trip in Mali in 2006
Students in Prague during a study trip in 2002
Hanging out outside of Grenelle in 2004
Group photo of students on a study trip in Qatar in 2006
The Library Staff in 2003
Students in Montmartre
the LEX Club, advertised at Clubs Night in Spring 2006
Students hanging out at Fall Festival in 2005
Student reading in Grenelle courtyard
Centre Georges Pompidou trip
Sightseeing in the city 1
Friends waiting to graduate in May 2002
Students on a study trip to Berlin in 2002
Having a muffin at the AMEX Cafe
AUP students at the Halloween SGA Party in 2005
Prof Ann Mott on a study trip with students in Prague in 2002
Students in front of the Grenelle building during Orientation in Fall 2000
Students dancing during the 2005 Halloween party at Plaza Madeleine
Dinner in Prague during a study trip in Spring 2000
Students at George V metro station
Students at Centre Georges Pompidou
Receiving your Diploma at Commencement in May 2002
The Debate Club in Fall 2004 competing with Sciences Po
Students on a study trip to Prague in 2000
A game of Chess at the AMEX Cafe
AUP students learning in a museum
Presidents Conference 2008
AUP Computer Graphics class
Prague study trip in Fall 2000
Students in Class 15
AUP students relaxing during Fall Fest in 2000
Commencement Ceremony in May 2002
AUP students posing for the camera in 2001
AUP with merch at the Library Shop
AUP students taking in the views
Office hours with student
An impressive performance at the AUP Talent Show in 2006
Students at Opera Garnier
Two students at Clubs Night in Spring 2006
White Mask Theater Group in 2003
Students shopping
Student Advisors helping out at orientation in Fall 2004
Students at the AUP Library
Checking in during Orientation in Fall 2004
Students in Class 14
Enjoying some Orangina during Thanksgiving in Fall 2000
Students at Tuileries metro station 1
Check-in table during Spring 2000 orientation
Students at the SGA Party in 2005
The American table at Worlds Fair 2001
Plenty to eat and drink at Worlds Fair 2005
Two students in discussion in a Parisian window
Students discussing books over coffee
Checkin for Orientation at the Grand Salon in Combes in Spring 2003
More talent at the AUP Talent Show in Spring 2006
Champs Élysées
Students in Class 12
Eiffel Tower
AUP Library Shop
Professor teaching class
Party at the AMEX in Spring 2003
The White Mask Theater Cast in 2003
Cozy on the chair in 2001
Students on their way to Disneyland Paris in 2004
Students after the Thanksgiving Feast in 2005
Students in Class
Celebrating with friends at the Graduation Gala in 2002
Hanging out on the couch with friends in 2006
The Slovenian table at Worlds Fair in 2001
Bill, Luke and Sarah in 2004 at AUP
Housing Orientation in Fall 2000
Students on Opera Garnier steps
Enjoying Worlds Fair in Spring 2005
Students enjoying open mic at the AMEX in 2005
Student purchasing newspaper
AUP students during Fall Fest 2000
NATO EU Conference 2001 01
Screenwriting 2000 02
Entrance to La Tour Maubourg Metro in 2002
A group of friends in the AMEX Cafe in 2006
Students at Le Cafe Marly 1
Students on the Venice study trip in April 2001
Students at Worlds Fair in Spring 2005
On the bridge outside the Grenelle building in 2004
Friends at the AMEX Cafe
AUP students playing soccer at night
Study Session
Celebration at the AMEX Cafe during Open Mic in 2003
