The following articles and stories about ACS Athens have appeared recently in several media in English and Greek languages.
Wednesday, June 23, 2010 at 12:46PM Athens Plus, the largest English language weekly newspaper in Greece, hosted an account of ACS Athens students' trip to Middle East, as part of the "Journalism & Leadership" program they are part of.
Thursday, June 18, 2009 at 5:38PM a newsletter by the Education Management Corporation
In the January 2009 edition of the "Living our Brand" newsletter, the Education Management Corporation refers to Ms. Alessandra Sax-Lane, ACS Athens' Elementary School counselor, who currently is studying for her doctoral degree through an online graduate program offered by Argosy University.
Education Management Corporation is among the largest providers of private post-secondary education in North America, with 89 locations in 28 U.S. States and Canada. Argosy University offers four major disciplines, including education, business, health sciences, and psychology and behavioral science at the American School of Professional Psychology.
Following is an excerpt from Ms. Sax-Lane's comments in the newsletter, which you can download by clicking here:
“Having the opportunity to study from my home while living abroad has been an especially exciting aspect of the AUO learning experience.” She credits Argosy’s flexibility with helping her to achieve a healthy equilibrium. “I have been given the opportunity to help individuals grow and make changes in their lives for the better. Expanding on my knowledge and education can only aid in my professional development.”
Wednesday, March 26, 2008 at 8:20AM
This article (in Greek) appeared in the sports weekly magazine "All-Star Basketball". Click here to download the PDF file, Size: 321 KB.
Monday, February 18, 2008 at 8:22AM ACS Athens mentioned on the first ever Democratic Party World Primary. The article titled: "Democrats Swig Beer in Vienna While Voting for Clinton, Obama" appeared on February 11, 2008.
You can view the article by clicking here or read it below.
By Jonathan Tirone
Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Polls close today in the only Democratic primary taking place in hotels, restaurants, all-night diners, pubs and beer halls over the course of a week.
American expatriates are turning their haunts into impromptu polling stations as they cast ballots for their presidential nominee for the first time since 1992. Democrats abroad will send 22 delegates, with 11 votes, to the convention in Denver.
``People just love coming out to the pub and voting,'' Democrats Abroad Austrian Co-Chairwoman Katie Solon said as she sipped tea in Vienna's polling place: Pickwick's, a bar and English-language bookstore that served beer as ballots were filed on Feb. 5. ``It's amazing to have the community feeling.''
Democrats Abroad, the Washington-based organization representing party members living in over 100 countries, switched from a 16-year-old caucus system this year to try to increase turnout. Voters cast ballots on the Internet or show up for same- day registration at polls, in addition to retaining the ability to mail absentee ballots to their home states.
The group has been working for more than a year on tapping political support from the estimated 6 million Americans living overseas, said Washington-based Democrats Abroad Director Lindsey Reynolds, 31, the organization's only paid staffer. While she declined to disclose precise figures, she said the number of new Democrats casting ballots is in the thousands.
Republicans living overseas can stay home: The Republican National Committee requires mail-in absentee ballots, said Miki Bowman, chairwoman of Republicans Abroad in the U.K. and a former staffer at the Department of Homeland Security.
In Hong Kong, about 40 Democrats voted between 5:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. local time on Feb. 10. They talked politics between bites of Belgian waffles, amid the sound of background rhythm and blues from a juke box at the Flying Pan, a 24-hour diner in the center of Hong Kong's Wan Chai district.
``The last few times it was such a complicated process to vote in the primary from overseas but this time it's much easier,'' said Erik Floyd, 55, a New Yorker who has lived in Hong Kong 14 years and who voted for Senator Barack Obama.
``This arrangement definitely makes it easier for people to vote compared to a caucus,'' said Andrew Green, 30, a San Francisco native, who organized the vote at the Flying Pan.
The 22 expatriate delegates attending the Democratic convention have a half-vote each, said Solon, 50. Splitting votes allows the group to represent a wider geographic area, he said. Seven votes will be pledged to candidates prior to the event.
Americans from overseas will hardly overwhelm the Aug. 25-28 convention, which will seat at least 4,049 delegates, with 2,025 required to seal the nomination. The District of Columbia, with a population of around 590,000, is sending 38 delegates alone. The District, along with neighboring Virginia and Maryland, holds its primary today.
U.S. citizens living abroad had until Jan. 31 to register for Internet voting and can submit their electronic ballots until midnight tonight. They must give their name, birth date and the place they last voted in the U.S. Democrats Abroad said it verifies with U.S. authorities that no one votes twice. Internet ballots are tabulated by San Diego-based Everyone Counts.
Obama, of Illinois, holds an edge in pledged delegates of 925 to 896 for Senator Hillary Clinton of New York, based on an unofficial tally by thegreenpapers.com, a nonpartisan Web site that compiles election statistics. Not all the delegates in recent primaries have been apportioned.
In Greece, students from the American Community School in Athens led voters from the lobby of the luxury Hotel Grande Bretagne on Constitution Square upstairs to the voting place.
"In the past I had to send huge amounts of paperwork, whereas this feels like they're plugging for me," said Laura McDowell, 42, a copy editor who has lived in Greece for 15 years and voted absentee before. "This seems very organized."
Americans voting in Moscow went to The Place, a restaurant near the Vodootvodny canal. Families with young children chatted over French fries and orange juice after casting votes. The restaurant offered free club sandwiches and coffee to anyone who cast a ballot. A global winner will be declared on Feb. 21 after all votes have been tabulated and double-checked in Geneva.
Some expatriates say they feel a kinship with Obama. ``I think he has a better understanding of the wider world,'' said Peter Reinhardt, 36, a Yale University alumnus who has lived in Russia for 13 years. Obama, whose father was Kenyan and who lived in Indonesia as a child, ``had similar experiences to what many of us U.S. expatriates experience every day.''
In Vienna, the Democrats were good for business, said Pickwick's owner Nat Rosenberg, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Romania who had always voted Republican before this year.
Business was ``huge'' the night of the primary, he said, with around 200 Democrats drinking beer, buying books and talking politics after casting their ballots.
To contact the reporter on this story: Jonathan Tirone in Vienna at jtirone@bloomberg.net .
Last Updated: February 11, 2008 18:19 EST
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