U.S. Embassy Changed Naming from "Non-Kurdish" to "Non-KRG" after Student Voice's News

U.S. Embassy's Correction
in its Facebook page

Student Voice blog caused United States Baghdad Embassy to change its attitude towards naming the 20 full scholarships granted by the embassy to AUI-S.
In  a previous news, Student Voice blog showed the difference between AUI-S and U.S. embassy regarding the naming of the 20 full-scholarships granted by the U.S. embassy in Baghdad. Today, U.S. embassy changed the naming on its official page on facebook.

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Financial Aid System Needs Radical Reform

by Pola Kamal
AUI-S has been offering jobs to its students who are on financial aid in order to offset some of their tuitions. Everyone is glad that AUI-S helps its students to pay the tuition, which students might not be able to pay without those jobs. It seems the jobs that have been given to students are out of sympathy rather for the benefit of the university. Those jobs are only to keep the students busy and in the mean time to lessen their tuitions a little bit. The simplicity of the jobs themselves and the ways work study students are treated raises doubt about the results.

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Hayas's Goat and AUI-S

by Karwan Gaznay

 In the past, there was a king of the villages in Kurdistan. One day the king called the people and said:” I have a goat. I would like to someone borrow my goat and return it with the same weight.” Hayas, who was a resident of the village, said “I can do it.” He brought the goat and bought a wolf. He fed the goat kinds of food that were full of vitamins till evening, yet he showed the big, dangerous wolf to the goat in the evening till morning, so the goat couldn’t get any benefits from the food!! Thus, the goat was in the same weight. When people asked why he did that? Calmly as usual, he said “Goat is my goat, if you think bad, you don’t do that.” When he returned the goat, the goat was the same weight it was taken. Therefore, he was bestowed a wife by the king for doing his job successfully.

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Fall Semester: New Provost, New Rector and New Academic Dean of Students

Beginning from Fall semester, the three main positions of the AUI-S administration will be run by new faces.

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Miss Daloye, We are not Afraid

 by Bahman  Abdulrahman Hasan

“Students are not familiar with freedom, absence of fear, criticism and dialogue, they are not used to healthy relations with their professors. Students in Kurdistan as well as all over Iraq have grown accustomed to listening but not to dialogue and criticism.” Dashnye Daloye, AUI-S Director of Student Affairs

This is a selection of a report titled American University Needs Money published on Niqash , an online trilingual newspaper, on August 25, 2010. The reporter, Dana Asaad, addressed AUI-S’s current unsatisfactory state of affairs directly through quoting from the university officials.

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On Dashnye Daloye's Interview - We Need an American University!

by Mahdi Abdullah Murad


In an interview given to Niqash website and published in many other Kurdish media, Dashne Daloye, the student affairs director, said that AUI-S students are not used to freedom and absence of fear. While supporting Ms. Daloye in her thesis, I would like to say something more on the issue.

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The 20 Full Scholarships ... U.S. Embassy: It is for the non-Kurdish students .... AUI-S: It is for Students from Outside Kurdistan Region

Student Voice found a big difference between the United States embassy in Baghdad and American University of Iraq-Sulaimani regarding naming the 20 full scholarships granted by the US embassy.

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