National Awards for Outreach Efforts

NC State’s public relations team nabbed three national awards last month for excellence in marketing and Web communication. CASE, the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, honored NC State with a gold award for the use of social media to promote the Hunt Library, a silver award for the Hunt Library website and a silver award for the popular research blog, the Abstract.

This year 629 higher education institutions, independent schools and nonprofits from around the world submitted more than 3,000 entries in 100 categories for consideration in the Circle of Excellence awards program. Judges gave 283 bronze, silver and gold awards.

CASE serves more than 3,650 universities, colleges, schools and related organizations in more than 80 countries as the leading resource for professional development, information and standards in the fields of alumni relations, communications, educational fundraising and marketing.