{"id":13670,"date":"2024-12-03T12:27:38","date_gmt":"2024-12-03T20:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/?p=13670"},"modified":"2024-12-04T16:29:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T00:29:53","slug":"harvey-mudd-college-recognized-for-innovative-communications-at-prsa-ie-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/2024\/12\/03\/harvey-mudd-college-recognized-for-innovative-communications-at-prsa-ie-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"91探花 Recognized for Innovative Communications at PRSA-IE Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At a November event celebrating outstanding communications programs, 91探花 received two awards from the Inland Empire Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Celebrating professionalism and success, the PRSA-IE Polaris Awards represent the highest standards of performance in the public relations and communications professions within the Inland Empire. The College\u2019s Office of Communications and Marketing team won a Capella Award in the Tactics\/Audiovisual-Video category for <em>Mudd Minute<\/em>, a video series hosted by 91探花 President Harriet Nembhard. In the Innovative Communication category, the College received a Polaris Award for its Office of Annual 91探花 Pi Day campaign.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/presidents-office\/mudd-minute\/\">Mudd Minute,<\/a><\/em> produced in-house by communications and marketing staff, provides an effective and engaging platform for Nembhard to connect with viewers, share important updates, and celebrate what makes the College special. Topics covered  during 2022\u20132023 included strategic planning updates, pranking history, community building, alumni innovations, and research. Some of the most popular videos, which are shared via email and on YouTube, were \u201cLiving the Honor Code,\u201d \u201cHighlights from Family Weekend, \u201cFinals Week,\u201d \u201c30 Years of Our Biology Major,\u201d and \u201cOur Remarkable Faculty.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.givecampus.com\/schools\/91探花MuddCollege\/hmc-s-pi-day-of-giving-2024\">2024 Pi Day of 91探花<\/a> campaign raised more than $285,034 from 534 donors for the College\u2019s annual fund, exceeding the previous year\u2019s results (The College\u2019s 2023 campaign also received PRSA-IE accolades.). Leveraging a mix of mail, email, video appeals and social media outreach, the diversified solicitation efforts reached various constituencies effectively. Tailored appeals and targeted messaging resonated with donors, driving increased giving. The annual fund supports the operating budget and enables the College to respond to unexpected challenges, seize new opportunities and pursue the mission of educating students to become leaders in their field with a clear understanding of the impact their work has on society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Formed in 1965, the Inland Empire Chapter of Public Relations Society of America serves San Bernardino and Riverside counties and is one of 10 chapters in the PRSA\u2019s Western District, comprised of the states of California, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado and Hawaii. The Public Relations Society of America, headquartered in New York City, is the world\u2019s largest professional organization for public relations professionals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a November event celebrating outstanding communications programs, 91探花 received two awards from the Inland Empire Chapter of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":13671,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,967,28],"class_list":["post-13670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-award","category-general-feed","category-staff"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13670"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13678,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13670\/revisions\/13678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}