Cinema student Rylee Smith is fired up about screening her new movie at the Black Bird Film Festival next Wednesday. “When you finally have a finished product, and you show it to people, and other people get joy from that—it’s like, oh my gosh,” said the junior cinema and media arts major. Smith and a number of her cinema classmates will be showcasing their work at the seventh annual film festival on Wednesday night at 7 p.m. On April 26 at 7 p.m., student films will be … [Read more...]
Tri-S continues to soar
“I want to get Tri-S and Study Away back to where it was pre-COVID-19. I would like to see more students spend a semester or summer off-campus having more intense cultural experiences,” director of Tri-S Global, Aurora Doster, said. Doster is no longer an AU employee like she was prior to the COVID-19 shutdown in early 2020, when Tri-S and Study Away trips were suspended. Instead, she now works for a company called Global Education Services, which contracts with the university for outsourced … [Read more...]
5th Street Falls brings new ideas to campus
William Kult has a bit of wisdom for students who want to start or revitalize a campus club: “Look for ways to be unique.” That’s a lesson he and fellow senior Paige Anstead learned this year when they rebranded the AU chapter of Enactus—a national organization focused on business plan competitions among students—as “5th Street Falls.” Due to lack of engagement and interest among students, Kult said, faculty in the Falls School of Business were no longer happy with the Enactus program. The … [Read more...]