Georgia Highlands College was named among the top in the nation in the 2016 Collegiate Advertising Awards program. The Collegiate Advertising Awards (CAA) is an elite program recognizing higher education organizations for excellence in communications, marketing, advertising and promotions of their schools.<\/p>\n
The 2016 CAA program had more than 900 entries from the United States and Canada representing small community colleges to very large schools & universities.<\/p>\n
Submissions were reviewed by a national panel of industry experts, with a possibility of 100 total points. Participant\u2019s entries competed against similar-sized organizations in their specific groups and categories.<\/p>\n
Awards were issued for entries that received top marks from judges placing them in the top 16% of the nation for advertising excellence. Judging criteria included creativity, layout and design, functionality, message effectiveness, production quality and overall appeal.<\/p>\n
Representing all areas of communications, medias, marketing, advertising and promotions, the 2016 Collegiate Advertising Awards program contained some of the best advertising projects arguably in the world.<\/p>\n
GHC took home the Gold Award (the top 5 percent in the nation) for College Website Design, a combined effort between GHC\u2019s Advancement division and GHC\u2019s IT department, Folder Design, and Promotional items, which were foam cell phones to promote GHC\u2019s new website\u2019s mobile friendly features.<\/p>\n
GHC also took home the Silver Award (the top 12 percent in the nation) for Magazine Advertisement and Billboard Design.<\/p>\n
Additionally, GHC saw success at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District Three Awards with a Special Merit for Photography Series for the GHC \u201cShare Your Story\u201d Diversity Series, which captures students, faculty, and staff from all backgrounds.<\/p>\n
The Georgia Highlands College Advancement team consists of:<\/strong><\/p>\n Mary Transue \u2013 Vice President of Advancement<\/p>\n Sheila Jones and Nick Godfrey \u2013 Marketing & Communications<\/p>\n Jeff Brown and Justin Sucre \u2013 Digital Media<\/p>\n Ken Davis \u2013 Print & Design Services<\/p>\n Alison Lampkin \u2013 Alumni & Special Events<\/p>\n Cindy Gomez and Liz Jones \u2013 Executive Assistant & Foundation Accountant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Georgia Highlands College was named among the top in the nation in the 2016 Collegiate Advertising Awards program. The Collegiate Advertising Awards (CAA) is an elite program recognizing higher education organizations for excellence in communications, marketing, advertising and promotions of their schools. The 2016 CAA program had more than 900 entries from the United States […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":5835,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5833"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5836,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5833\/revisions\/5836"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.highlands.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}