Auburn University

Auburn University (AU) is a state university located in Auburn, Alabama in the United States. With over 23,000 students and 1,200 faculty, it is the largest university in the state. Auburn was chartered on February 1, 1856, as the East Alabama Male College, a private liberal arts school affiliated with the Methodist Church. The college was donated to the state of Alabama in 1872, when it became the state's public land-grant university under the Morrill Act and was renamed the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama. In 1892, the college became the first four-year coeducational school in the state. The college was renamed the Alabama Polytechnic Institute (API) in 1899. In 1960, its name was changed to Auburn University, as it had become popularly known.

Selected Student Organizations

Media

• One of the leading literary journals in the region, The Southern Humanities Review has been published at the University by members of the English faculty, graduate students in English, and the Southern Humanities Council since 1967, publishing the work of nationally known authors such as Kent Nelson, R. T. Smith, and Robert Clark Young
• Eagle Eye TV News - A weekly 30-minute television news program that is produced by Auburn University students and that airs on-campus, off-campus, and on-demand at the university website.
• The Auburn Plainsman - the university's student-run newspaper, has won 22 Pacemaker Awards from the Associated College Press since 1966. Only the University of Texas' student paper has won more.
• WEGL 91.1 FM - The Auburn campus radio station.
• The Auburn Circle- The student general-interest magazine. The Circle publishes poetry, art, photography, fiction, nonfiction, creative nonficiton, and architectural and indstrial design from the Auburn community.

Politics

• Auburn University College Democrats
• Auburn University Libertarians
• Auburn University College Republicans