NWACC public relations team garners awards

Members of NorthWest Arkansas Community College’s public relations and marketing team received six awards in the District 4 Medallion Awards competition conducted by the National Council for Marketing & Public Relations.
 
District 4 includes Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Wyoming. The National Council for Marketing & Public Relations is the only organization of its kind that represents marketing and PR professionals at community and technical colleges. Awards were presented earlier this fall at the District 4 conference in Lubbock, Texas.
 
The local community college staff earned three gold awards – in government relations or community relations, communication success story and promotion of a special event, one silver award in fundraising campaign, and two bronze awards in social marketing and in feature writing.
 
The team includes:

Steven R. Hinds, executive director of public relations and marketing;
Rob Hanlon, director of marketing;
Chris Holtman, public relations and social media specialist;
Debbie Miller, communications specialist;
Justin Froning, graphic designer;
Brian Clark, graphic artist; and
Daniel Yeager, social media coordinator.

Tara Berry and Micah Milligan, former graphic designers at NWACC, also contributed to the projects that earned district honors.