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President Ahmad Dallal

In 2021, Ahmad S. Dallal became the 13th president of The American University in Cairo. President Dallal is an accomplished academic leader and renowned scholar with expertise in U.S. and regional higher education. His leadership experience includes spearheading institutional transformations that spanned everything from closing budget deficits and administrative process reforms to introducing key performance indicators and quality measures for academic programs and increasing scholarly production. He also raised the socioeconomic diversity of the student body through scholarships and financial aid.

President Dallal's Bio

Key Initiatives

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Climate Change

AUC's Climate Change Initiative was established in response to worldwide climate change challenges and the active role academic and research institutions must play in understanding and addressing them.

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Campus Planning

The American University in Cairo has begun a campus planning process for the next 100 years, building on the success of the New Cairo campus which opened in 2008. The AUC Next 100 Campus Plan provides a forum to engage the AUC community in creating a vision for the future of the campus.

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Mental Health

As a response to the increase in mental health challenges throughout the world, The Mental Health Wellbeing Initiative at AUC aims to ensure that our University has the culture and mechanism needed to address the challenges.

President's Corner

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Campus Conversation; AUC's Strategic Priorities

During a campus conversation last week, President Ahmad Dallal spoke about the University's four core strategic pillars — student-centered culture, academic excellence, future of work: extended ed and civic engagement — and explained initiatives and projects under each. In addition to continuing to focus on the current challenges posed by the devaluation, the University must work in parallel on realizing its future ambitions, explained Dallal. Here are the key takeaways from the conversation:  

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