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The 2009-2010 academic year priorities, developed through ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's annual planning process, are now available online. To access the document, click on the link below. Permanent links to the site are found under the "Publications" section at the bottom of E-Net, and also in the "Administration" drop-down menu of the header on ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Web pages.

Construction workers were smoothing cement July 15 as they work to complete the new plaza that will grace the entrance to ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ's Academic Village. The plaza is scheduled for completion Aug. 10, and will be the new home for the university's weekly College Coffee gatherings.

Two ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ students and a 2009 alum won awards last week for their performance in a moot court competition at the 3rd annual International Human Rights Law Summer Study in Vilnius, Lithuania, a program co-sponsored by the university’s Center for Public Affairs.

ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ is one of the nation's top seven best values for students who want to attend a university with outstanding academics at an affordable cost, says a former managing editor of the Fiske Guide to Colleges in an article on Reader's Digest.com.

The deadliest wreck in the history of the Metrorail system in Washington, D.C., killed the parents of an ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ DPT alum. Services are scheduled for early next week, with a memorial fund established to honor their memories.

Job-Hunt.org cites ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ Career Services (Twitter.com/HireÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵGrads) in a list of 50 "Best and Brightest" colleges and universities supporting students and alumni through Career Services Twitter accounts.

Twenty ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ students are living and working in the Big Apple this month as part of the inaugural Summer in the City: ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ in New York program sponsored by the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business. Students are interning at major firms and nonprofits in the fields of finance, marketing, communications and entrepreneurship while residing in the Upper East Side of Manhattan and completing a professional development course.

A new program to help ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ students make smart job search decisions based on geographical preference, all while connecting them with alumni and other professionals, was recently cited as a best practices model at the National Association of Colleges and Employers annual conference in Las Vegas.

When Robert Hoppey '09 saw a tough job market in the year leading up to his graduation, he built a "souped-up multimedia resume" that included a video spoof of "The Office" television program to show potential employers his creative side. CBS Evening News took note, too, and Hoppey was featured in a June 8 nationwide segment on the ways college graduates are marketing themselves in an economic recession.