The University of Notre Dame Alumni Association recently unveiled an online engagement center with social-networking capabilities fit to engage — and elicit gifts from — even the feistiest of the Fighting Irish alums.

By Abny Santicola

The rebuilt golden-domed Main Building, perhaps the most recognizable image representing Notre Dame besides its logo — ubiquitous during college football season — is now one of 137 buildings that make up the university’s campus. Recent surveys conducted by U.S. News & World Report, TIME and Kiplinger’s, to name a few, rate Notre Dame among the nation’s top 25 institutions of higher learning. It also was ranked fifth in a listing of “dream schools” by parents in a survey by The Princeton Review and was named one of the “New Ivies” in American higher education by The Wall Street Journal.