American University
Private university in Washington
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| 2025 | Beginning in the Fall semester, freshmen and sophomores will be required to live on campus. |
| 2024 | McDowell Hall underwent renovation for the Fall semester. |
| July 1 2024 | Jonathan Alger became AU's 16th president. |
| August 2023 | Sylvia Mathews Burwell announced she would be stepping down as AU's 15th president. |
| 2022 | Only 69% of law school graduates were employed in jobs requiring Bar passage, highlighting challenges in graduate employment. |
| 2021 | American University's Model United Nations team achieved the top ranking in North America for the 2021-2022 academic year. |
| 2020 | American University announced the complete elimination of public fossil fuel investments from its endowment and earned its fifth consecutive gold rating from AASHE for sustainability. |
| 2020 | Hall of Science was completed and received LEED Gold certification, housing biology, environmental science, chemistry, and neuroscience departments. |
| April 22 2020 | American University announced complete divestment from fossil fuels, becoming one of the first universities in the United States to divest both direct and indirect fossil fuel holdings. |
| 2019 | American University received 18,545 freshmen applications for the Class of 2023, with a 36% admission rate of 6,691 students, and ultimately enrolled 1,755 students. |
| 2019 | The School of Education split from the College of Arts and Sciences to encourage more students to pursue careers in education. |
| 2018 | American University became the first university in the United States to achieve carbon-neutral status. |
| September 24 2018 | AU President Sylvia M. Burwell announced the establishment of the Sine Institute of Policy and Politics, which aims to bring together scholars, journalists, and experts to find bipartisan policy solutions. |
| May 2018 | Taylor Dumpson filed a lawsuit against Andrew Anglin, founder of The Daily Stormer, for organizing a racist and sexist trolling campaign against her. |
| 2017 | East Campus completed construction, adding 590 new beds with LEED Gold certified suite-style residence halls including Duber Hall, Constitution Hall, and Federal Hall. |
| 2017 | Don Myers Technology and Innovation Building was completed and received LEED Gold certification. |
| 2017 | Taylor Dumpson became AU's first female black student body president, and subsequently experienced a racist incident involving bananas hung with noose-like ropes. |
| May 2017 | Cornelius M. Kerwin retired as AU's president. |
| 2016 | Tenley Campus became the home of American University's Washington College of Law. |
| 2015 | American University began offering an accredited, accelerated online MBA program. |
| 2014 | American University ranked #2 in the Sierra Club's 'Top 10 Greenest Colleges' list and announced a solar farm project in partnership with George Washington University. |
| 2014 | McKinley Building underwent major renovations and became the new home of the School of Communication, achieving LEED Gold certification. |
| 2013 | Cassell Hall opened for the Fall semester, featuring a fitness facility and achieving LEED Silver certification. |
| 2011 | The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) awarded American University a gold rating on their STARS sustainability scale. In the same year, the School of International Service building earned LEED Gold certification for its sustainable 70,000 square foot design. |
| 2010 | The new School of International Service building opened for the 2010–2011 school year, with ground originally broken by President Dwight D. Eisenhower. |
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