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Two videos submitted by University Marketing and Communications into the CASE Circle of Excellence awards took apical honors, including a Grand Gold for the video “Letters to Graduates.” CASE announced the 2024 winners connected June 26.
This year, CASE — which stands for Council for Advancement and Support Education — received much than 4,223 entries from astir the world, with 486 winners. Awards are judged locally and globally.
CASE’s Circle of Excellence Awards are the premier designation programme for acquisition advancement. These peer-selected and judged awards observe the talented unit astatine colleges, universities and schools worldwide who assistance to beforehand their institutions with resourcefulness and ingenuity.
The Grand GoldGold grant — a archetypal for Fresno State — signifies that judges considered the introduction “game-changing” from among the entries received.
In “Letters to Graduates,” Fresno State amazed 3 graduates with messages from their families. The messages reminded the grads of their relentless enactment to get to this constituent and the lasting interaction that their Bulldog occurrence volition person connected themselves, their families and their communities. The featured graduates were overwhelmed with emotion aft proceeding heartfelt words from their parents, siblings and children and shared their thoughts connected however this accomplishment reaches good beyond themselves.
Judges said of the project: “The video was seamless and wholly student-focused, making it thing that was genuinely meaningful and galvanizing for the graduating class. Capturing the household members successful their homes provided important texture and discourse and celebrated the diverseness of Fresno State students.”
The video titled ” A Season to Celebrate” earned a metallic grant successful the Holiday/Year-end category. Fresno State created an end-of-year video that not lone reflected achievements from the past twelvemonth but besides fostered a consciousness of Bulldog pridefulness and unity crossed each assemblage audiences. “A Season to Celebrate” blends the tone of the vacation play with impactful impervious points and engaging visuals, each woven unneurotic with an archetypal euphony creation written and performed by a Fresno State student, Kristine Kemmer, cclass of 2024.
The CASE Circle of Excellence Awards showcase outstanding enactment successful advancement services, alumni relations, communications, fundraising and marketing. The awards are unfastened to professionals moving astatine CASE subordinate colleges, universities, autarkic schools and their affiliated nonprofits astir the world.
The CASE awards travel connected the heels of respective earlier awards. Fresno State earned 4 honors from the Central California Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Image Awards successful May. The winning entries were:
- Special Award, Award of Excellence, Campaign of the Year — Bulldog Bound, a caller guaranteed admissions programme that creates pathways to Fresno State from section participating schoolhouse districts. All promotional efforts that went into this programme were highlighted including video, website, flyer, property conference, collateral, etc.
- Project Awards:
- Award of Excellence, Magazine — Fresno State Magazine (Fall 2023). The “Faces of Fresno State” contented highlighted singular students who are astatine the bosom of Fresno State — past, contiguous and future.
- Award of Excellence, Photograph — a stadium changeable astatine sunset past autumn taken by assemblage lensman Cary Edmondson.
- Award of Excellence, Video: Washington Monthly Rankings.
