April 3, 2008
PRESS RELEASE
American University of Armenia Corporation
300 Lakeside Drive, 5th Floor
Oakland, CA 94612
Contact: Gaiane Khachatrian
Tel: (510) 987-9452
Fax: (510) 208-3576
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AUA Launches Urgent Matching Gift Drive to Complete Paramaz Avedisian
Building
Through the generosity of an anonymous donor, the American University of
Armenia (AUA) announced its launch of a matching gift drive in order to
raise $2.5 million in the next 2 months to complete the construction and
furnishing of its newest facility, the Paramaz Avedisian Building.
Contributions must be made before June 1st to qualify for the matching gift.
"Our trustees have already contributed the lion’s share of the funding–$11M
of the $13M raised to date. That’s a tremendous accomplishment, and we are
so very close to success," stated Dr. Haroutune Armenian, President of the
AUA. "We need an additional $2.5 M. This is a great deal of money for our
nascent fundraising efforts and it will take many gifts both large and small
for us to meet this goal. The building is progressing very nicely-we have a
wonderful structure but we must now fund the insides-the classrooms, faculty
offices, lecture halls-where information can be conveyed and turned into
knowledge, into scientific and social breakthroughs for the region and
beyond."
This new state-of-the-art building adds 100,000 square feet to the existing
facilities at AUA including classrooms, seminar rooms, laboratories and
research areas. Adjacent to its main campus building located on Marshal
Bagramian Street, the Paramaz Avedisian Building will enable AUA to expand
its academic programs, research activities and enrollment capacity. Since
receiving U.S. accreditation by the Western Association of Schools and
Colleges, the University has been working to accommodate a growing student
body and is successfully recruiting more students from the Caucasus region
and the greater Middle East.
"AUA has been graduating top notch students for the last 15 years and is
taking an instrumental role in the economic, social, and political
development of the country and region," added Lucig Danielian, Vice
President of AUA. "With this matching gift drive, we are seeking community
wide support from the Diaspora where every contribution counts, and however
large or small, will be matched."
AUA is an affiliate of the University of California and provides graduate
education in Business and Management, Industrial Engineering and Systems
Management, Computer and Information Science, Political Science and
International Affairs, Health Sciences, Law, English, and Environmental
Science and Conservation.
Checks are payable to the American University of Armenia Corporation,
Paramaz Avedisian Building Fund, and can be sent to 300 Lakeside Drive, 5th
Floor, Oakland, CA 94612. For more information on naming opportunities in
the Paramaz Avedisian Building, please contact our Oakland office at (510)
987-9452 or Pasadena office at (626)768-7946.