国务院已拒绝为该校提供未来两年的资金，这使数百名阿富汗女学生的教育前景岌岌可危。
The State Department has denied its funding for the next two years, jeopardizing the education of hundreds of female Afghan students.
美国阿富汗大学是美国在该国数十年存在的最有力象征之一。据该校校长表示，该校已失去国务院的资金支持，数百名阿富汗女性的教育因此面临风险。
The American University of Afghanistan, one of the most potent symbols of the United States’ decades in the country, has lost its State Department funding, putting the education of hundreds of Afghan women was at risk, the school’s president said.
据该校教授兼临时校长大卫·爱德华兹称，国务院于周二拒绝了该校申请未来两年2500万美元资金的请求。作为继续运营的条件，该校必须与位于吉尔吉斯斯坦的美国中亚大学建立合作关系。
The State Department on Tuesday denied the university’s application for $25 million in funding for the next two years, according to David Edwards, a professor and the interim president of the university. As a condition of remaining open, it must partner with the American University of Central Asia, based in Kyrgyzstan.
爱德华兹教授表示，尽管吉尔吉斯斯坦的校区不提供远程教学——而这正是阿富汗女性接受高等教育的唯一途径——他仍将与该大学合作。美国阿富汗大学目前服务约1000名学生，全部通过在线方式学习，其中四分之三为女性。约90%的学生身在阿富汗，教师则分布在阿富汗境内及海外。
Professor Edwards said he would work with the university in Kyrgyzstan, even though that campus does not offer remote instruction, the only way women in Afghanistan can receive higher education. The American University of Afghanistan serves about 1,000 students, all online, three-quarters of whom are women. About 90 percent of the students are in Afghanistan, with teachers in the country and abroad.
爱德华兹教授说：“我们是整整一代阿富汗人接受教育的唯一场所，而现任政府似乎未能意识到这一点。”
“We are the only venue for education for a whole generation of Afghans, and this point seems to be lost on the current administration,” Professor Edwards said.
国务院在一份声明中表示，美国政府将在今年年底停止向该校拨款，理由是该校“存在反复缺乏问责的历史，涉及数百万美元美国纳税人的资金”。2019年，在之前的管理层任内，该校曾面临管理不善的指控，当时美国官员称有超过6000万美元不翼而飞。
The State Department said in a statement that the U.S. government would stop dedicating any funds to the university at the end of the year, citing a “history of repeated lack of accountability for millions of American taxpayer dollars.”The university faced allegations of mismanagement in 2019, under previous leadership, when U.S. officials said that more than $60 million had gone missing.