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Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine has ranked Â鶹ÊÓƵ among the nation’s top 50 best values in private higher education and the #9 university in lowest total costs, a distinction published in the magazine’s December edition. The 2010-11 ranking is the fifth consecutive top-50 placement of Â鶹ÊÓƵ by Kiplinger’s.

David Gergen, prominent political commentator, former presidential adviser and chair of Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law's advisory board, features a posting on his "David Gergen's Voice" blog about the revitalization of downtown Greensboro, N.C. The piece, by Gergen's son Christopher, describes the role that Â鶹ÊÓƵ Law and other foundation-supported initiatives have played in the city's economic transformation.

Discovery.com, the online publication of the Discovery Channel, featured the work of Janna Anderson, associate professor of communications and director of the School of Communication's Imagining the Internet Center, in an Oct. 18 article.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ is the "featured member" for the week of Oct. 4, 2010, on the website and Bulletin e-newsletter distributed by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ professors, administrators and alumni made regional and national news in recent weeks through their research and activities, both on and off campus. Notable this September was coverage of the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Poll. The following list should not be considered exhaustive and does not include all athletics news.

The Business Journal of the Greater Triad reported in an early September article on a sustainability internship at Â鶹ÊÓƵ currently filled by student Ben Stanley.

The Sierra Club named Â鶹ÊÓƵ one of the nation’s top “Coolest Schools” in the environmental group’s fourth annual rankings of America’s greenest campuses. It is the second consecutive year that Â鶹ÊÓƵ made the list, which rates schools in categories that include academics, waste management and energy efficiency.

Â鶹ÊÓƵ professors, administrators and alumni made regional and national news in recent weeks through their research and activities, both on and off campus. Notable this August was Â鶹ÊÓƵ's continued praise in the annual U.S.News & World Report rankings. The following list should not be considered exhaustive and does not include all athletics news.

EdTech, a magazine focused on technology applications in education, features Â鶹ÊÓƵ in its September/October edition. The article, titled "Building the Smarter Classroom," says that Â鶹ÊÓƵ is "taking instructional technology to the next level," with "pioneering collaborative classrooms and teaching students real-world skills."

Â鶹ÊÓƵ faculty and academic programs earned numerous top national honors in the 2011 “America’s Best Colleges” rankings released Aug. 17 by US News & World Report. In the magazine's "Focused on Their Undergrads" ranking, Â鶹ÊÓƵ is named the #1 Southern University and among the top 86 colleges and universities in the nation "where the faculty has an unusual commitment to undergraduate teaching," as measured in a survey of college presidents, provosts and admissions deans.