THE AMERIC AN U N IV E RS IT Y O F PA R I S
GIVING REPORT 2016
YOUR GENEROUS SUPPORT M A K E S T H E D I F F E R E N C E
AUP ASCENDING
3 MILLION EUROS IN SUPPORT OF OUR COMMUNITY
Thanks to the generosity of the AUP community of donors—among whose ranks we count alumni, parents, trustees, friends, and foundation—we attained new levels of giving in 2015-2016. More than three million euros in cash were donated towards our mission-driven projects: to enrich our academic programs, to promote the diversity of our student body and to create a contemporary, student-centered base in the 7th arrondissement. Beyond that, we are grateful to have received to date over 11 million euros in pledges and commitments to AUP’s first capital campaign, AUP Ascending.
2015-2016 Fundraising Income from Donors and Trusts MAJOR GIFTS / CAPITAL CAMPAIGN
NO. OF GIFTS
INCOME (EUR)
Campus Fund Centers Endowment
32 2 1
1 803 175 308 645 5 364
Total
35
2 117 184
REGULAR GIVING / ANNUAL FUND
NO. OF GIFTS
INCOME (EUR)
Scholarships Coup de Pouce
54 26
40 839 6 517
Total
80
47 356
RESTRICTED GIFTS & GRANTS
NO. OF GIFTS
INCOME (EUR)
Academic Affairs Pripare Graduate Student Travel Grants The Annales Project The Center for Writers & Translators De Tocqueville Journal The Cahier Series The Pike Project The Pat Thompson Scholarship Fund
2 1 1 1 2 1 1 1 1
533 415 51 319 22 030 15 000 10 092 9 425 5 000 4 713 93
Total
11
651 087
UNRESTRICTED GIFTS Unrestricted gifts
GRAND TOTAL
NO. OF GIFTS 66
192
INCOME (EUR) 259 300
3 074 927
Student reading area in Grenelle
STUDENT-CENTERED & CONSOLIDATED CAMPUS After putting the final touches on the Student
student learning center adjacent to our Student
Life Center in the Combes Building last year, this
Life Center in Combes. It will enable us to create a
fall, we opened the doors to the new Teaching
consolidated and intimate campus with eight new
& Mentoring Center in the Grenelle Building.
floors devoted to research, writing, teaching and
This utterly transformed and colorful space will
learning.
facilitate student-faculty interaction, encourage interdepartmental and interdisciplinary exchange, and provide welcoming spaces to promote learning and mentoring.
Consolidated Combes & Quai d”Orsay building
AUP will at last have a permanent home on the Seine where cultures can convene and minds Student lounge in Combes
can meet. The support of the AUP community has been crucial to the success of this ambitious
We are now in the final phase of our campus
plan. For more information about AUP’s Campus
plan: the purchase of a beautiful new building at
Development Plan, see the article in the Fall AUP
Quai d’Orsay and its transformation into a modern
Magazine.
37 PEOPLE HAVE PLEDGED OVER 11 MILLION EUROS TO AUP’S CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT
INNOVATIVE CENTERS
Prof. Elena Berg & student Shannon Monahan in the lab
CENTERS FOR TEACHING & RESEARCH The creation of three new 21st-century centers for
students from courses in Psychology; “Memory,
teaching & research can also be attributed to the
Testimony and the Shoah,” and Global Communi-
generosity of our donors.
cations; “The Museum as Medium.” In addition, 7 students were awarded Schaeffer Student Fellow-
The Joy and Edward Frieman Environmental Science Center, which was inaugurated this year, facilitates advanced scientific research and student-teacher collaboration on imporant climate change projects. Faculty and students are using
ships to participate in collaborative faculty-student research on understanding the causes and consequences of mass violence, on conflict prevention and resolution, and on the roots of hatred and discrimination.
the Center’s state-of-the-art climate chambers to study how shifts in temperature and light affect seed beetles, in order to understand the impact of climate phenomena on this population. The center was established thanks to the vision of the late Edward Frieman, a dedicated board member, and his wife Joy. The George and Irina Schaeffer Center for the Study of Genocide, Human Rights and Conflict Prevention, established last spring through a generous multi-year gift from AUP parents George
Prof. Brian Schiff & students at museum in Auschwitz
and Irina Schaeffer, was inaugurated this October with a conference; ‘Legal Legacies Of Genocide:
This fall, with the help of an A.W. Mellon Foun-
From Nuremberg to the International Criminal
dation grant, we are launching AUP’s Civic Media
Courts’. The conference brought together prom-
Lab, a collaborative, interdisciplinary platform for
inent scholars, lawyers and jurists to discuss the
generating and managing innovative civic engage-
evolving relationship between the law and geno-
ment courses and projects. For more information
cide. Faculty members have already led a study
about AUP’s 21st-century centers for teaching &
trip to Krakow and Auschwitz with twenty-one
research see the article in the Fall AUP Magazine.
Students studying place branding in Iceland
SUPPORTING THE STUDENT COMMUNITY We are determined to keep every facet of an AUP education viable for students from all financial backgrounds and circumstances. Thus, our Annual Appeal supports scholarships and the historic Coup de Pouce Fund. As a result of Coup de Pouce, last year AUP enabled 398 undergraduates to go on 29 faculty-led study trips, an integral part of the AUP academic experience. One hundred twenty four of them received 37,450 euros in study trip grants, most of which were financed by the University’s operational budget. We hope that in the future, they will be fully funded by donations to Coup de Pouce from the AUP community. Six scholarships in the name of alumnus and former trustee Marc Groothaert (Class of 1968) were awarded last year to students from Georgia, the Ukraine and the US. In addition, the charitable foundation named for the mother of graduate alumna Karen Slosberg (Class of 2013) awarded five travel grants to graduate students who focus on social justice, human rights, and international development. Generous contributions from alumni, parents,
STUDENT GRANTS
board members and friends of AUP have already allowed us to achieve an encouraging level of progress, leading us to believe that our far-reaching ambitions for AUP Ascending are achievable with the support of our worldwide community. We continue to work tirelessly to sustain and build upon AUP’s reputation as a world-class institution of international learning, academic excellence, and interdisciplinary inquiry. Thank you for helping us to raise AUP, ever higher, each year.
42 % OF STUDENTS RECEIVED SOME KIND OF AUP FINANCIAL AID Prof. Justin McGuinness and students exploring Fez, Morocco
2012-2016
GIFTS TO AUP The American University of Paris gratefully acknowledges the following contributors, each of whom made generous gifts to AUP between August 1, 2012 and July 31, 2016. Although we were unable to include life-time giving or pledges in this list, we remain grateful for the steadfast support of all alumni, parents and friends, in particular to those who have made long-term and annual commitments to the future of 1,000,000€ & above The George & Irina Schaeffer Foundation Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 500,000€ - 999,999€ Anonymous Trustee Omid & Gisel Kordestani ‘96 Anonymous Parent 100,000€ - 499,999€ Anonymous Alumnus in Memory of Thamer Salman ‘98 Anonymous Trustee Elizabeth Ballantine & Paul Leavitt Christina & Pierre de Labouchere (Christina Sandel '86) Edward & Joy Frieman Family Trust Marc Groothaert ‘68 Achim P. Klueber ‘77 The Alfred & Jane Ross Foundation 50,000€ - 99,000€ Anonymous Alumna Anonymous Trustee Anonymous Trustee Andrew Batinovich ‘80 Franklin Craig ‘81 Doris & Edward Daughney Peter R. de Castro ‘68 Florence Gould Foundation Danny Kaye & Sylvia Fine Kaye Foundation David T. McGovern PRIPARE Mahvash& Farrok Yazdi 25,000€ - 49,999€ Kostia H. Belkin ‘86 Elliott Burdette ‘70 Center for the Study of International Communications Marsha Chandler Joseph Dickerson ‘00 Marie Donnelly Dr. Christoph Endrös ‘82 Lee & Berna Huebner Judith Ogilvie ‘65 Barbara M. Reno & E. Ray Stewart Susan H. & Josef K. Ruth ‘65
Miriam Twaalfhoven ‘81 R.T. Vanderbilt Trust ‘95 15,000€ - 24,999€ James Basker & Angela Vallot Charles Delmar Foundation The Florence Gould Foundation Gretchen Handwerger Joey Horn Pierre Sauvagnat ‘83 Daniel J. Socolow Craig & Debbie Stapleton Susan Tolson Dr. Laurence Vagassky ‘95 & Thomas Prey ’95 10,000€ - 14,999€ Arent Charitable Foundation Euan and Angelica Baird Dr. George Elder & Jo Ann Engelhardt Ronald Freeman Gil Kemp Lancome International Anna Sandel & Mark Sandel ‘89 Celeste Schenck Lizbeth Schiff ‘66 5,000€ - 9,999€ Martin S. Avidan ‘80 D. Grant G. Calder ‘92 Jorn ‘95 & Alexandra ‘94 Cloppenburg Elizabeth Craig Bassel S. Haidar ‘92 The Jerome Robbins Foundation, Inc. The Pamela J. Newman Foundation Shaunna Prissert ‘96 Jean-Marc Quach Rita F. Salzman The San Francisco Foundation Jacques Setton ‘66 Joseph Smallhoover Tides Foundation Peggy Tierney ‘92 Edie C. Wiltsee ‘67 1,000€ - 4,999€ Anonymous Alumna Acadomia
John M. Adler ‘88 AL Reception Arnie Arifin Association des Amis de Vaux-leVicomte The Bank of America Charitable Fund Manuel & Anne Benetreau Ron Bissell James Bittermann Constance & Dominique Borde Rabih Bourji Bodie N. Bristol Andy Budgell Capital Guidance Allison Coleon ‘10 Victor De Witt ‘05 Edward Delany ‘91 Gail DeNicola Barry L. Douglass ‘64 Jeff F. Durgee ‘92 Ian Edwards Fred Einbinder Gina Elardo Sharon Faccinto ‘87 French-American Foundation Elan D. Garonzik ‘70 Lillian Greene-Chamberlain & John Chamberlain ‘81 Jean K. Gunnell ‘66 Dennis James Healey ‘63 Thomas Horgan ‘79 William Jackson Humphreys ‘66 Trevor Iles Thomas Ingold Inwood Hotels Arthur ‘64 & Tamea ‘64 Isham William G. Jacobi John Jassy ‘68 Perla Karney ‘65 Carey Kluttz MA’11 Maxime Laurent/IGF Leader Opticom Amy Leeds-Brag Christine Leeuwis-Chahbasi ‘81 & Frederick Leeuwis ‘82 Juliane Lenzner Melgaard ‘99 Marie & Harley Lippman Alice Maguire MA’10 Dr. Alix Marduel & Tom Lockard
John Meyers ‘86 & Kristen Wisnewski ‘86 Chas A. Miller III ‘82, Lois H. & Charles A. Miller Foundation Silver Miller ‘68 Peggy Montgomery ‘75 Chuck Muckenfuss Boris Nedev ‘97 Karen Newman ‘67 Cyrille Niedzielski Samuel H. Okoshken Joumana ‘04 & Sebastian Ordelheide ‘07 Maria Jose Fernandez Osburn Cemal Parla ‘81 Hélène Pellerin/Alphaprim Grant Plemons ‘64 Quimdis Leslie Reed ‘80 Ole Rollag ‘95 Benjamin H. Rowbotham ‘00 Lois A. Rudy ‘68 Michael Sandler ‘68 Kenneth Saunders ‘93 Gyneth Schenck Eric & Elizabeth Schwartz Andrew Seid ‘71 Leon M. Selig Lane ‘72 & Randi Sharman Michael K. & Carol Simpson Arne Sondhi ‘83 Douglas Sonntag ‘74 Speaking Agency Maryland Swensen ‘63 500€ - 999€ Arian Alikhani ‘92 ChristineAllen ‘96 Thomas Andriveau ‘97 Eleanor Ashford MA’10 Eric & Cheryl Baranes Suzanne H. Barker MA’11 Brenda Bertholf Patrick Clevenger ‘93 Gabriella Biello Coroneos ‘64 Amanda Crider Sykes Emmanuel Di Donna ‘92 Elizabeth Dudley ‘66 Christophe Durand-Ruel ‘81 Haldun Ersanli ‘82 Anne Marie Farache ‘82 Reid Feldman Bonnie Freedman ‘85 Suzanne Halasz ‘85 Paul & Dagmar Hannon HAR Contract Jorge Helft Sonia Huyghe MS’09 Jill Jordan Ward Just Elizabeth Karcher ‘84 Tommy Karlsson Ghassan & Gisele Khoory
Jena King James H. Landon Luke Laumann ‘05 Phillippe & Patricia Lemoine Jill Royce Loomis ‘82 Nancy Machiah Malinda Mitchell ‘64 Alice Mullins Naiade Services Oleo Films Richard Peyster Berine Pharaon ‘97 Karuna Phillips ‘07 Jonathan Randal Royal Rodgers Hilda Santo Tomas Jill Kathryn Sargent ‘67 Shelley S.Saxton ‘81 Samar Sayegh MA‘08 Dr. Stephen K. Scher Sin-ming Shaw ‘65 Valeri Shea Michel Simiault ‘85/Gulf Continental Air Services Hong-Tsun Simon ‘88 Robert & Susan Sloan Helen Tange Ashley ‘98 & Yasushi Tomita ‘98 Karen Marie Wellford ‘64 1€ - 499€ Anonymous Alumna Vilde Aakeroy ‘92 Nadira S. Abdus-Shakur ‘04 Yasmina Abouchalache ‘04 Vasco Afonso Sharon Aikens Khaled Al Baijan ‘03 Lisa Aldrich Dakota Reckson Arkin ‘10 Jeffrey A. Ascherman ‘83 Brian K. Atchinson ‘73 James Ernest Auman ‘69 Helene Awad Wahba ‘82 Sarah Ayewah ‘06 Tina Bark ‘02 Peter Barnet Daniela Baron Romo ‘14 Alejandro Barretto William Baskin Andrew Bates ‘69 Henrik Beijar ‘98 Sarah Bentaieb ‘07 Elizabeth Bernardaud Judithe Bizot Marine F Blachere ‘08, MA'10 Mary Robbins Black ‘64 Charles Blankson ‘81 Jill Bobrow Celestine Bohlen Elena Bordarier ‘13 Cynthia D. Bouvier ‘04 David Boyle ‘63
Sandra Bramwell-Riley ‘86 Suzanne Braunstein ‘64 David Andre Brewster ‘66 Jacqueline Bridges ‘65 Jeanne Marie Browning MA'10 Nicholas Budd Michael V. Buddy Hazel M. Buys ‘67 Thomas P. Calus ‘02 Peter Carzasty Mike Cerre Ahmed-Amine Chaieb ‘07 Avishan Chanani Dianne Cheseldine ‘66 Lorene Cleary ‘63 Natalie C. Conser ‘92 Katherine Converse Katharine Cook ‘73 Milos Coric EV Corporate McCall Credle Rosenthal Douglas Culver Madeleine Czigler John Reynold Dahl ‘70 Kathleen Daly ‘80 Claudia Danzer-Zimmermann Dwight Day ‘96 Ioana R. de Person ‘04 Jean de Pomereu ‘91 Karen Deans ‘85 Byarlie Dear Valerie Delzer Cherie Dennis ‘10 Patricia Didonato ‘86 Martina Dimitrova MS‘07 Anne Ditmeyer MA'10 Gil Donaldson Ahab C. Downer ‘92 Waddick Doyle Eric Drape Jacqueline Duclos Carl M. Dyrendahl-Nyblin ‘96 Kareem El Heneidi‘96 Tarek El Heneidi ‘94 Amal T El Masri ‘08 Whitney A. Ellis ‘05 Paul Elmen ‘66 Sophia Erensel ‘05 John V. Farr Carrie C. Fiedler Yuen ‘95 Camilla Field ‘94 Sarah M. Finnigan MA'12 Ian Fischler ‘96 Rachel Fischler Robert Fitzpatrick Elissa-Bassima Freiha ‘13 Jeremy E. Fry ‘12 Cecilie Furnes ‘04 Dinorah Dafne Gabella-Poisson Orit Gat ‘07 Mariella Gatter ‘93 H. John Gilbertson Raymond Gonzalez ‘79
Sarah E. Granetz ‘11 Pamela Grant Seena M. Haddad ‘12 Ashley R. Hahn MA'10 Brigitte Halabe Emily F. Hancock ‘11 James B. Harrell ‘67 Cynthia Hebert ‘68 Valerie Henderson ‘73 Bernard J. Henry John Hinners ‘64 Shahrzad Hojabr ‘05 Jeffrey Howard Glassover ‘72 Charley Huebner Alexandra Hughes Marilyn Husman Cedric Huwe ‘00 Kate Hyung Kim ‘97 Nathalie Ifrah ‘04 Joanne Intrieri Stephen Isaacson ‘64 Lindsay Jeffers ‘67 Petra Jenkins ‘88 Maria Jimenez ‘86 Genae Johnson ‘80 Karin A. Johnson ‘13 Catherine Jones ‘99 Amber Cooper Jorez MA'09 Mary C. Josephson‘85 Cynthia Junkin Gingi Kadvany Negvesky ‘65 Alex Kale ‘99 Manisha Kapil ‘79 Kamila Karlovska ‘00 Robert M. Kaye Kristina Keenan ‘08 Brian Kelly ‘80 Joanne Kelly-Couderc ‘90 Philip Antoine Kendis ‘94 Richard Kennedy ‘76 Dacy Knight MA'13 Monteser Kohn ‘64 Katarzyna A. Koniar ‘01 Robert Korengold David Kray Nazanin Lankarani Olivier Laurent ‘05 Dr. Joseph B Leader Fredrik Leander-Pehrson ‘05 Russell V. Lee ‘63 Katharina Levintow ‘76 Mark Linvill ‘81 Jonas Ljunggren ‘98 J'Michelle Lojo MA'11 Clifford R. Mahler ‘64 Walter Lee Maloy ‘64 Maria Mancuso MA'10 Danielle Marino ‘07
Axium Marketing John & Donna Marquez Eric Marzi Patrick Mathews ‘81 Mary M. McAdam MA‘14 Michael McCaskey Chakera T. McIntosh ‘04 Michelle McTamney ‘78 Scott P. Meehl ‘80 Darcee Meilbeck MA'13 Cody D. Merritt ‘09 Cynthia Mitchell Jean Monaco Michael Morgan Rupert Andrew Morrall Rosabeth Moss Kanter Michele Mullaly Andrew Myers Dina Nasar ‘05 Cassandra Ngan ‘08 Connie Nicholson ‘83 Catherine Nolan Rebecca Oosting ‘84 James Allison Overton ‘64 Susan Owens Cecile Oyono John A. Parmigiani Valerie Paul ‘83 Virginie-Alvine Perrette Alan Peterson ‘89 Paull Phillips ‘65 Davide Pianzola ‘05 Pat Pierard ‘65 Edward Beale Plaisance ‘64 Michael Plaut ‘79 Christopher Plutte ‘98 Jean-Bernard Ponthus Heather Price ‘09 Liam Purdon ‘70 Hannah C. Queiroz ‘13 Douglass A. Raff Sara Rahimian MA'10 Claudia Rajlich ‘99 Kent Ravenscroft Patrizia Reindl-Schweighofer ‘04 Christoffer Revell Celeste Rhoads ‘07 Lynn Richardson ‘00 Christine Richet ‘84 Alan Riding Yannick Rizet Terri Rizzo Laura Roberts Bowen MA'10 Caitlin Rodgers MA'12 Julia Rothenberg MA'10 Jacqueline Routier ‘94 David Rubin Mehdi Saberi ‘67
Nedim Sahovic ‘98 Harry Schaible William Schallenberg ‘79 Carla Schamet ‘86 Christine Scheerder Katarina Schmidt ‘13 Nils F. Schott ‘02 Joseph Schuman Elizabeth Scibelli Caroline Scott ‘12 Richard Scott Alain Michel Serieyssol ‘66 Allin Seward Archie Shepp Daniel Sherry ‘79 Helen Shreves ‘65 Alexander Shteriev ‘02 Diana Silvestri Iana Simeonov ‘88 Pamela M. Spurdon ‘64 Dominique Staco Chauvet ‘83 Joseph A. Stanislaw Carole Stein ‘78 Manuela Stevenson Mary Louise Stott Anne Swardson Sarah Sweeney ‘11 Victoria Swift Simmons Marjorie Szafir Leslie Tait ‘77 Martha Teichner Aude C. Temel ‘02 Jacquelien Ter Veld ‘81 Barbara Thorsen ‘66 Guadalupe Torres MA'08 Julie Tran ‘09 Philippe Travis ‘95 Katarzyna Trojak ‘06 Ryan Trostle MA'10 Cynthia Vaida ‘66 Pauline F van Drumpt ‘94 Sandra Van Mell ‘63 Kristina Ver Foley Briana Vermeulen ‘11 Maarten T. Vervaat Allison H. Voet ‘85 Mark Von Sponeck ‘96 Kristina Voyvodova ‘08 Natalija Vysniauskaite ‘98 Deborah Wais Lynn P. Wallen ‘65 Vivienne Walt Casey Waltz ‘12 Stevi Wara ‘09 Mary R Weary ‘68 Walter Wells Sarah Young ‘67 Ashkhen Zakaryan ‘13
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