NEW ANNEX OF AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF ARMENIA TO BE READY IN AUTUMN

YEREVAN, MARCH 7, NOYAN TAPAN. The construction of a new annex, which
started in the territory of the garden near the American University of
Armenia, will be finished this autumn, and the students will start the
new academic year in new and comfortable lecture rooms, laboratories,
and research centers. As Haroutiun Armenian, the Chairman of the
University, said in his interview to Noyan Tapan correspondent, the
opening ceremony of the new annex is likely to take place after the
graduation ceremony of University students, at which Diasporan
benefactors will be also present.

Haroutiun Armenian said that the new annex will mainly serve for
classes and the main building will be used for purely administrative
purposes.

Mr Armenian said that building’s outer and inner construction, laying
of communications is being simultaneously carried out at present. The
development of the garden near the annex has also started. The
University jointly with the Armenian Forests NGO will organize a tree
planting, benches and lights will be placed. The University will assume
the further care and keeping of the newly created park, as well as
pedestrians’ path through the garden will be restored.

"With the construction of this building we will expand the University’s
foreign programs for even more," the institution’s Chairman said adding
that the American University will also promote activity in neighboring
countries. Besides, the University has already opened correspondence
course centers in various towns of Armenia and Artsakh, including
Gyumri, Ijevan, Stepanakert.

At present the University has nearly 400 students, 25 out of which are
citizens of Iran, China, the United States, Russia, Syria, and Canada.