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Are you interested in pursuing an undergraduate degree in BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION, ECONOMICS, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, OR APPLIED MATHEMATICS AND INFORMATICS at AUCA, one of the top universities in Central Asia offering American-style education, but you cannot afford the school's high tuition fees?

In July, during the peak of the pandemic crisis in Kyrgyzstan, U.S.-CAEF and AUCA alumna Asel Kaldybaeva could not just sit and watch while people in her community were suffering. She became one of the first volunteers of the “Help Issyk-Kul” initiative created by Edil Ajibaev, founder of PicVPic.com, and played a key role in the success of the project.

WARC: "To help the American University of Central Asia community get to know our new tutors, we will be publishing new tutor profiles every week. This week, we're pleased to introduce Khiradmand Sheraliev, a writing tutor."

Dear AUCA community!  We are glad to announce that SPIRIT WEEK 2020 is coming!   From October 6 to October 9, 2020 we are going to have 4 crazy days. Days that will remind us that we are all united and friendly.

Maftunakhon Tokhirova is a junior student of Anthropology department. She came to study at AUCA from Tashkent. Previously, she applied for an exchange program and was successfully accepted to study at BARD College, USA. Due to the pandemic, the flights have been canceled and now Maftunakhon is studying remotely. We talked with her about her student life and learned about her best memories at AUCA.

Dinara Abildenova, a senior lecturer of Kazakh National University named after Al-Farabi gave a presentation "Marriage ceremonies in Kazakhstan: Norms and their change" on September 30, within the AUCA Anthropology Club meeting. In this presentation she focused on social changes that took place in Kazakh marriage ceremonies after the country’s independence.

The Creative Writing Club at AUCA is pleased to announce its first event of the semester, a workshop of student writing featuring work by Deniz Nazarova. Please join it next Wednesday at 6:00 PM, when Deniz will be sharing her piece with us in order to receive feedback and suggestions.

The Bishkek Liberal Arts Seminar (BLAS) series invites academics outside of Kyrgyzstan to share their research with AUCA students, typically on topics and using methodologies not currently present at AUCA. The primary aim of this series is to provide an opportunity for students to engage with different subjects and approaches potentially beneficial for their studies and their curiosity.

AUCA Alumni Association awarded five undergraduate students with the Alumni Scholarship 2020. Dana, Editha, Dastan, Maftuna, and Rysmende are those distinguished students who demonstrate excellent academic performance and active participation in the life of the University community.

Today, September 23, as Kyrgyzstan celebrates the Kyrgyz Language Day, AUCA’s Writing and Academic Resource Center (WARC) is glad to announce that its WARC Kyrgyz Language Tutorials––free videos that provide instruction in Kyrgyz vocabulary and grammar––have returned for a second semester of filming.