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The 2012 edition of the Fiske Guide to Colleges names ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ one of the nation's top 25 "Best Buy" private universities. The best buy schools are recognized for the quality of their academic offerings in relation to the cost of attendance.

A new ferryboat affiliated with ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ sets sail on the coastal North Carolina waters this summer. All of North Carolina’s ferryboats are affiliated with colleges or universities in North Carolina and display the school colors and logos.

Gary Palin, executive director of the Doherty Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership and senior lecturer of entrepreneurship in the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business, was a featured webcast speaker July 22 at the Higher School of Economics Business Incubator "StartUpNetwork" workshop in Moscow, Russia.

Twenty-six students, faculty, staff and alumni representing ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ’s Imagining the Internet Center participated in and provided official documentation of the Internet Governance Forum-USA 2011 at Georgetown University Law Center on July 18.

This September, ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ will begin a new lifelong education program designed for people aged 50 and older. The learning institute, called LIFE@ELON, will feature weekly presentations conducted in interactive format. The learning community will be led by current and retired ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ faculty and staff members and other area educators.

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ will revise its Teaching Fellows program following recent action by the North Carolina General Assembly to phase out funding for the North Carolina Teaching Fellows program. The new ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ fellows program will recruit outstanding students nationally as well as those from North Carolina who want to pursue careers in education.

Having a job while in high school means extra cash for going to the movies and filling up the gas tank, but is part-time work for high school students a negative thing? Steve DeLoach, professor of economics, examined this long-standing question along with Stephanie Franz ’11, recent ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ graduate, and Jen Platania, associate professor of economics.

ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ's board of trustees has approved the naming of the residence halls in the Colonnades Neighborhood, as well as three buildings in Danieley Center. The new names honor former ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ presidents, trustees and alumni.

Several major campus construction projects outlined in the ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ Commitment strategic plan are under way, with completion expected this summer on some work, while other projects are getting started. Following this spring’s construction bidding process, timelines for several projects have been established.

Former college and professional basketball star Charlotte Smith was introduced June 22 as ºÚÁϲ»´òìÈ's new head women's basketball coach. Smith has spent the last nine years as an assistant coach at her alma mater, UNC-Chapel Hill, where she had an All-American career topped by a last-second shot that earned UNC the national title in 1995.