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iStudy website The marketing office staff of the University of Mississippi Division of Outreach were recently recognized at the 2019 College Public Relations Association of Mississippi (CPRAM) annual conference, earning four first place awards for advertising and marketing, with a total of 8 awards. The iStudy 2019 campaign "Origami ads" won 1st place for best advertisements. The annual marketing competition provides a chance for each university, college, and community college in the state to showcase their marketing and public relations work from the previous year.

UM Division of Outreach Awarded Top Honors at College P.R. Conference

Team awards include first-place print advertising campaign in statewide competition

By Pam Starling News 6/27/19

OXFORD, Miss. – Members of the Marketing and Creative Services department in the University of Mississippi’s Division of Outreach were recently honored for their work during the College Public Relations Association of Mississippi’s (CPRAM) 2019 conference.

The awards were presented during the event held in Ridgeland last month where marketing, communications, and public relations professionals from Mississippi’s senior institutions 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 the fall of 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 as well as the webpage “Pre-College Star Talk.”

The UM Division of Outreach is home to over 60 academic and non-credit programs including Ole Miss Online, UM Academic Outreach, UM’s five regional campuses and sites, the Office of Pre-College Programs, the Office of College Programs, Professional Development and Lifelong Learning, UM Conference Services and Transportation as well as the Linda Chitwood Testing Center.  

The Division also houses the Office of General Studies that encompasses the Bachelor of General Studies, Complete 2 Complete (C2C), and the Freshmen Studies academic program.

For more information on the division please visit www.outreach.olemiss.edu.