The Kennedy Political Union (KPU) is AU's student-run, student-funded, on-campus political speakers' bureau. Since 1968, KPU has been recognized as one of the premier college speakers series in the United States. As one of the premier student-run lecture series in the United States, KPU has brought such speakers as Madeleine Albright, Bob Dole, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the 14th Dalai Lama, and Mikhail Gorbachev to campus, among hundreds of others.