Change Can't Wait Flag on Quad

Change Can't Wait Festival

Thank You for Celebrating Your Impact

Thank you to all Eagle students, faculty, staff, and families who joined us on campus at the Change Can’t Wait Festival on October 8.

Together, we celebrated the changemaking power of our AU community and the impact that Change Can't Wait: The Campaign for American University is making on our campus and beyond.

Interactive Campaign Stations

Guests experienced the campaign by visiting interactive and informative stations across the quad. Learn more:

Airlie Center
AU Humanities Truck
AU Museum & Corcoran Collection
The Alan and Amy Meltzer Center for Athletic Performance and Student Thriving Complex
Research Gallery Walk
Sine Institute of Politics & Policy
WAMU 88.5

Campaign Progress

Change Can't Wait: The Campaign for American University has raised more than $355 million toward its $500 million goal. So far, our AU community has helped:

- Create or expand 124 student scholarships, with more than $32 million raised
- Endow the university's first Eminent Scholar chair
- Found a groundbreaking new institute of policy and politics, and
- Increase giving to equity-based funds by 34 percent just in the last year!

Change Can’t Wait continues to create transformative educational opportunities for students, advance research with impact, and build stronger communities locally, nationally, and globally.

Learn more or make a gift to the campaign for change.

Why us? Changemaking is in our DNA
Why now? We know change can't wait