From its remarkable setting overlooking the heart of Rome, AUR is at once deeply connected to the city and looking outward to the world. AUR combines an American liberal arts education with a global community, interdisciplinary and experiential learning, close relationships with faculty, and a city that becomes part of the classroom.
This combination encourages students to question assumptions, connect ideas across disciplines and cultures, and develop a broader understanding of the world and their place within it.
Today, AUR is experiencing a new period of growth and opportunity. Open Worlds, the University's first comprehensive fundraising campaign, brings together an ambitious vision for its future: expanding access to an AUR education, investing in academic excellence, enriching the student experience, and creating the campus needed to support future generations.
What can your support open?
Open Worlds is an invitation to help shape AUR's future. Your gift to the Open Worlds campaign expands what is possible.
SCHOLARSHIPS
Scholarships open access to an American University of Rome education for years to come. At the same time, it strengthens and grows the range of experiences and perspectives represented within its global community of students.
STUDENT EXPERIENCE + CAREERS
Rome, Europe, internships, field experiences, academic travel, partnerships, and professional opportunities give students a chance to put ideas into practice and discover where their interests and abilities might lead.
CAMPUS + INSTITUTIONAL FUTURE
AUR's campus expansion will transform the University's physical environment, creating new spaces for teaching, learning, collaboration, and student life while building the physical foundation for the University’s future.
Gabriel Wistisen ’20
A message from President Scott Sprenger
The American University of Rome enters this next chapter from a position of confidence, momentum, and opportunity.
For nearly sixty years, AUR has drawn on the extraordinary opportunities afforded by its location in Rome and its international community. Our distinctive educational experience combines the intellectual breadth of the liberal arts with learning that extends far beyond the classroom.
At AUR, we believe a liberal arts education and preparation for successful lives and careers go hand in hand. In a rapidly changing world, students need both. They need the knowledge to build a career and the judgment to navigate change. They need to understand the world—and have the confidence to find their place within it.
Ultimately, the measure of our success will be the students we send into the world. Our aim is to prepare them to lead lives of purpose.
Now is our opportunity to build on that promise. I invite you to be part of what comes next.
Scott Sprenger
President, The American University of Rome
