Sally Hisham I’ve always heard people longing to get accepted at AUB. I never really understood why. The professors and the students are constantly promoting it as a place that holds all sorts of students, and not just a specific privileged segment of society. This is not entirely wrong. Sometimes you can notice people from [...]
Sawt Al Niswa interviewed students involved in the strike against the 31% increase to tuition. This increase to tuition is part of AUB’s intention in making quality education less accessible to middle class student. Independent students are now leading the initiative after the USFC failed to lead a united student movement.
Yasmine Ali Very few newspapers headlined the strike which started yesterday at the American University of Beirut (AUB). Many started a campaign on Facebook to invite their fellow students to join them in the strike and discuss the administration’s decisions. Initial responses came from people outside the University who criticized the “bourgeois revolution,” of “AUB [...]
The teachers didn’t only humiliate us by shutting us up, they did so by implying that we are not smart enough/knowledgeable enough/reliable enough/able to research, read, analyze and come up with our own independent conclusions and act upon them.
