BRADFORD,
PA – The University of Pittsburgh at Bradford has received two awards – one
gold, one bronze – from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education’s
District II Accolades Awards Program, which recognizes outstanding programs in
higher education.
CASE,
which is an international association of educational institutions, announced
its 2015 award winners on Tuesday. Pitt-Bradford received a Gold Award in the
Promotional Items: Calendar category for the university’s 50th
anniversary calendar, which was created to commemorate Pitt-Bradford’s 50th
year in 2013. Additionally, the university received a Bronze Award in the
Creativity on a Shoestring category for its work in using its longstanding Law
Enforcement Awareness and Familiarization (LEAF) Day to recruit prospective
students from the region who are interested in criminal justice.
“We’re
delighted to be recognized by our colleagues at CASE,” said Pat Frantz Cercone,
executive director of communications and marketing. “Several members of our
faculty and staff, as well as alumni and current students, had a hand in
helping to create and execute both of these projects.”
Some
of the judges’ comments regarding the calendar included “really sharp photos,
nice use of time line and really cool font choice.”
The
12-month calendar, which was distributed last year to employees, alumni, donors
and friends, was designed by Mark Zampogna of Laser Layouts in Bradford who is
a 1988 Pitt-Bradford alumnus. The calendar showcased many old photos taken by
the late master photographer Forres Stewart.
This
is the second time the university has been recognized for the calendar. In
March, Pitt-Bradford received a Gold Award from the national Collegiate
Advertising Awards Program in the Calendar category.
In
awarding the Bronze for expanding LEAF Day, the judges said, “great way to take
an existing event and make it more effective and serve other audiences. Cost
effective.”
The
LEAF Day project started when the Crime Scene Investigation House opened in
2008. At that time, university officials decided to invite those high school
students in the region interested in criminal justice to attend LEAF Day, tour
the new CSI House, meet current criminal justice students and professors, and
have lunch in the dining room. Since then, nearly 400 students have attended
LEAF Day and many of them have enrolled in and graduated from Pitt-Bradford
with their degree in criminal justice.
District
II is the largest CASE district, which includes more than 675 institutions from
Pennsylvania; New York; New Jersey; Maryland; Washington, D.C.; Delaware; West
Virginia; Ontario, Canada; U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
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