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April 19, 2012
AAU Establishes Committees for Accreditation

Students are given opportunity to improve school’s operation.

In efforts to improve operations at Anglo-American University, the school has decided to
establish committees of students, faculty and alumni to represent diverse perspectives. The
committees are a part of AAU’s application process to the Western Association of Schools and
Colleges, an American accreditation body.
“We are built on the American and British tradition, so we want to have a
stronger presence and better recognition in the U.S.,” said Katarina Svítková, AAU’s

March 27, 2012
AAU hosts U.S. Universities Fair

On April 18, 2012 AAU will host the American Universities Fair, a unique invitation to interact with representatives from U.S. universities.

 

June 20, 2011
Augé: Using stories to transcend lectures

Augé never wanted to become a teacher. “I was too rebellious a student,” he says. But studying in California changed his idea of what a teacher’s job can be. He says he now loves his job and the idea of a university as well as the variety of students he encounters.

AAU professor Étienne François Augé believes an instructor should be more than just a lecturer in the classroom.

A prolific author of books and essays, he wants “to bring university to a more general audience” through his writing.

In his latest book, L’Illusion Culturelle: Hollywood et la Propaganda: 1990–2000, Augé explores the connection between Hollywood and propaganda for more than 600 pages but reaches no definite conclusion.

May 3, 2011
AAU delegates show firm resolution at Harvard Model UN

“We did quite well,” says Sandilya. “I wouldn’t say we were super successful but we did quite well.”

Anglo-American University was the only Czech University to send a delegation to the 57th Harvard Model United Nations Conference in Boston in February.

The group was larger and more successful than the one last year, with AAU students spending two weeks in the United States. Model UN conference aside, four of them met the Andorran ambassador at the United Nations headquarters in New York City.

April 21, 2011
Acceptance to Academic Association May Cause Changes for AAU

WASC accreditation will place AAU in a more elite educational league in which it will receive the same academic acclaim as the 165 senior universities and colleges already included in the association.

April 12, 2011
Cooperation with CEA brings challenges to some classes

How much will AAU have to change its academic standards to better suit those CEA requires?

Anglo-American University’s students can look forward to seeing more exchange students from the U.S due to a special global partnership agreement Anglo-American University has in place with the Arizona-based CEA study abroad program.

AAU’s full-time students have yet to find out what this really means for their academic future, but the influx is not always welcome by locals, it seems.

February 6, 2011
Americans have eyes for only one football

Americans cannot stand all the faking, whining, and complaining involved in the game play of soccer.

December 6, 2006

February 6, 2011
Donald Fuller: A life in learning, teaching and travel

"I was a Depression baby," says Fuller.

April 3, 2006

February 5, 2011
Non-Americans worry about next US presidency

The US presidential elections are not just of interest to Americans: Czech students have some surprising perspectives and views on the process. Most say they would prefer a Barack Obama presidency to one with John McCain, but only half of them would welcome a U.S. style direct vote in the Czech Republic.

October 16, 2008

The US presidential elections are not just of interest to Americans: Czech students have some surprising perspectives and views on the process. Most say they would prefer a Barack Obama presidency to one with John McCain, but only half of them would welcome a U.S. style direct vote in the Czech Republic.

February 5, 2011
Rocking the US presidential vote from Prague

US students at Anglo American University are, like many thousands in the United States, mobilizing for the election.
Breanne Toney, a CEA study abroad student at AAU, used the website votefromabroad.org to register for her absentee ballot. "I thought that the website was very accessible... it was really a one-stop shop for all the information you need."

October 16, 2008

US students at Anglo American University are, like many thousands in the United States, mobilizing for the election.
Breanne Toney, a CEA study abroad student at AAU, used the website votefromabroad.org to register for her absentee ballot. "I thought that the website was very accessible... it was really a one-stop shop for all the information you need."

February 5, 2011
SMS services company sets sights on Europe

If you cannot live without text messaging, and your thumbs have actually hurt, then you are what the company Mozeo would call "textually active." This company, a new energetic startup based in Syracuse, New York, has fused the worlds of chat, blogs, and text messaging. Bringing them together has created an entirely new level of group communication.

September 1, 2008

If you cannot live without text messaging, and your thumbs have actually hurt, then you are what the company Mozeo would call "textually active." This company, a new energetic startup based in Syracuse, New York, has fused the worlds of chat, blogs, and text messaging. Bringing them together has created an entirely new level of group communication.

February 5, 2011
Starbucks fuels students, controversy

'Can I get a medium... I mean grande?'
The usual terms small, medium, and large, long in use in Prague coffee shops, are being replaced with the Starbucks lingo of tall, grande, and venti. So what is it about Starbucks that makes it so intriguing? Is it the coffee aroma? The relaxed atmosphere? Everything seems to be a factor in making Starbucks what it has become today.

September 1, 2008

'Can I get a medium... I mean grande?'
The usual terms small, medium, and large, long in use in Prague coffee shops, are being replaced with the Starbucks lingo of tall, grande, and venti. So what is it about Starbucks that makes it so intriguing? Is it the coffee aroma? The relaxed atmosphere? Everything seems to be a factor in making Starbucks what it has become today.

February 5, 2011
Study (and drink) abroad appeals to many

The legal drinking age of 21 in the United States is hard for many students to abide. At around age 16, you can learn to drive; at 18 you can vote, buy cigarettes, pornography or lottery tickets and be sent to war. Not until you are 21 can you legally drink alcohol.
Which may explain why so many drink to excess when studying abroad.

September 1, 2008

The legal drinking age of 21 in the United States is hard for many students to abide. At around age 16, you can learn to drive; at 18 you can vote, buy cigarettes, pornography or lottery tickets and be sent to war. Not until you are 21 can you legally drink alcohol.
Which may explain why so many drink to excess when studying abroad.

February 4, 2011
AAU legal victory: state acknowledges credentials

In a battle over its good name that has run for more than a year, the translation of Anglo-americká vysoká skola has been officially recognized as Anglo American University - with an emphasis on the last word. 

April 30, 2009

In a battle over its good name that has run for more than a year, the translation of Anglo-americká vysoká skola has been officially recognized as Anglo American University - with an emphasis on the last word. 

February 4, 2011
Cartoonist teams up with former model for readings

"Drawing had always come easily to me," Nash says. "Writing was more of a challenge."

March 26, 2009

 

A new series literary readings at Anglo-American University's library is providing audiences with diverse viewpoints as they bring in the likes of American illustrators and poets and a Romanian stylist and writer.

January 10, 2011
Brunching with the president

AAU President Alan Krautstengl met with students over breakfast at the El Centro restaurant on November 19, giving students a chance to hear about developments at the school and to voice their concerns.

December 1, 2010