The new draft course schedule for Fall 2009 is out. According to the SG, only 21 students complained, whereas complaints last semester reached 60. The draft does not include the courses offered by theater professor Nedyalko Delchev and journalism professor Dinka Spirovska, who are both leaving on sabbatical next semester.

For a long time students have been complaining that dormitory services such as the cafeteria and laundry are overpriced. While the laundry service is outsourced, the canteen and cafeteria are not. The administration maintains that AUBG is not making a profit out of those services.

By the end of Spring 2010, the JMC department will have a new strategy. As Chair Dinka Spirovska is leaving on sabbatical in Fall 2009, the department is preparing for new course offerings instead of the ones Spirovska is teaching now. Being more up-to-date and also "fighting for more faculty members" are main objectives.

Formerly known as Gergana Grancharova, Bulgarian Minister of European Affairs Gergana Passy visited AUBG to talk about EU-related issues spanning from the environment to the suspended EU funds scandal.

Ellen Stone was an American missionary who, by being kidnapped in Bulgaria, unwillingly helped the liberation of Macedonia. Her remarkable story was told through a documentary done by Bulgarian director Vanya Bazhdarova, who visited AUBG to present her movie. 

The economic crisis and the devaluation of the Romanian leu have brought new challenges to Bulgarian and Romanian businesses.

Two weeks after the AUBG e-mail server was upgraded to a newer version, the initial problems with the anti-virus system are solved.

The UN Club at AUBG organized BLIMUN (Blagoevgrad International Model UN), the first Model UN event held on campus. Twenty-six students of eight nationalities participated. Of them, four students came from Sofia University and two non-AUBG students from Albania. The event's budget was 1,500 levs, 810 of which were funded by the SG, and the rest came from the participation fee.

Founder of the Bulgarian NGO New Age Citizens visited AUBG and gave a presentation focused on human rights. The NGO was presented as open to working with AUBG students to help them with social and community projects.

A Persian book, translated and published in 1557 in Venice, tells of a tale, which leads to the origin of the English word "serendipity." Visiting professor from Boston University presents AUBG students with tales of serendipity from Persia to Venice.

Prisoners on light sentences will be rescuing Sofia from the piles of garbage around the city.

Top Bulgarian tennis player and founder of the environmental organization Gorichka Magdalena Maleeva visited AUBG on Friday, March 13. At the invitation of radio AURA, she spoke about green thinking and living as part of the environmentally-oriented events for the radio's 16th birthday.

A lecture on neuro-linguistic programming presented students with information about techniques of hypnosis and a view on how they can apply to different professions and everyday situations. The lecturer also attempted hypnosis on one of the members of the audience.