Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s University Marketing and Communications Department (UMC) has received a CASE (Council for Advancement and Support of Education) Circle of Excellence Award for the SIUE Global Impact-Costa Rica extended video.
SIUE received a gold award in the category: video recruitment – long video. The CASE international awards program honors outstanding work in advancement services, alumni relations, communications, fundraising, and marketing at colleges, universities, independent schools and affiliated nonprofits
“Our department has a tremendously talented and creative staff, but in this particular instance, Brandon Rice (videographer) and Nathan Brewer (director of marketing) took a week to capture SIUE’s commitment to worldwide community service, and the result is certainly worthy of this award,” said Doug McIlhagga, UMC executive director. “The imagery is stunning, and the student experience is unforgettable.”
During Spring Break 2018, Brewer and Rice traveled with a group of more than 30 students, faculty and staff from SIUE’s Schools of Nursing, Pharmacy, and Education, Health and Human Behavior to Costa Rica. They detailed a week of service and educational activities within the Central America Mission Projects (CAMP), a program introduced on campus by Chancellor Randy Pembrook, PhD.
In 2019, CASE received 2,856 entries for consideration in 100 categories by 611-member higher education institutions, independent schools, and nonprofits from 20 countries. Judges gave more than 400 awards in the following categories: bronze, silver, gold and grand gold. Winners are selected based on a number of factors, including overall quality, innovation, use of resources and the impact on the institution or its external and internal communities, such as alumni, parents, students, faculty and staff.
About CASE
CASE believes in advancing education to transform lives and society. As a global nonprofit membership association of educational institutions, CASE helps develop the communities of professional practice that build institutional resilience and success in challenging times. The communities include staff engaged in alumni relations, fundraising, marketing, student recruitment, stakeholder engagement, crisis communications and government relations. CASE is volunteer-led and uses the intellectual capital of senior practitioners to build capacity and capability across the world.
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville provides students with a high quality, affordable education that prepares them for successful careers and lives of purpose to shape a changing world. Built on the foundation of a broad-based liberal education, and enhanced by hands-on research and real-world experiences, the academic preparation SIUE students receive equips them to thrive in the global marketplace and make our communities better places to live. Situated on 2,660 acres of beautiful woodland atop the bluffs overlooking the natural beauty of the Mississippi River’s rich bottomland and only a short drive from downtown St. Louis, the SIUE campus is home to a diverse student body of more than 13,000.