Members of the Marketing and Creative Services department in the University of Mississippi’s Division of Outreach and Continuing Education were honored for their work during the College Public Relations Association of Mississippi’s 2019 conference. The honors this year included a first-place award in the senior college division for the print advertising campaign, “iStudy Origami Ads,” produced in fall 2018 to promote the division’s iStudy online academic program.
OXFORD, Miss. – Members of the Marketing and Creative Services department in the University of Mississippi’s Division of Outreach and Continuing Education were honored for their work during the College Public Relations Association of Mississippi’s 2019 conference.
The awards were presented during the event last month in Ridgeland , where marketing, communications and public relations professionals from Mississippi’s universities and community colleges gathered for professional development and networking opportunities.
The marketing office team members, led by director Janey Ginn, include Larry Agostinelli, Vanessa Cook, Anna Sayre, Pam Starling and Kris Zediker.
“Each project is truly a team effort,” Ginn said, “We work with the individual units in Outreach on a concept and a message. Then our staff translates these abstract ideas into something concrete.
“It is a rewarding, creative process and I’m so proud of my staff for their continued dedication to producing high-quality work.
The team honors this year included a first-place award in the senior college division for the print advertising campaign, “iStudy Origami Ads,” produced in fall 2018 to promote the division’s iStudy online academic program.
Three more first-place awards were earned in the webpage category for “Lott Leadership Website,” the single piece of artwork category for “Summer School 2018 Shark Illustration,” and for the UM-DeSoto campus viewbook “Your Story, Your Campus.”
A second-place award went to the “Fall 2018 StudyUSA Mobile Ads” in the web advertisement category. Third-place honors were given to three of the team’s projects, including the creative partners category for the “Holmes Community College and UM-Grenada Light Pole Banners,” the admissions and recruitment piece “It’s Okay to be Undeclared” postcard and the webpage “Pre-College Star Talk.”
The Division of Outreach and Continuing Education is home to more than 60 academic and noncredit programs, including Ole Miss Online, UM Academic Outreach, the university’s five regional campuses and sites, the Office of Pre-College Programs, Office of College Programs, Professional Development and Lifelong Learning, UM Conference Services and Transportation, and the Linda Chitwood Testing Center.
The division also houses the Office of General Studies, which encompasses the Bachelor of General Studies, Complete 2 Complete and the Freshmen Studies academic program.
For more information on the division, visit http://www.outreach.olemiss.edu/.