CASE Announces 2023 Circle of Excellence Awards Winners
Today CASE announced the 2023 Circle of Excellence Awards winners.
The premier accolades for educational advancement, the Circle of Excellence Awards recognize colleges, universities, and schools whose talented staff advanced their institutions with ingenuity and resourcefulness.
In 2023, teams from 583 institutions in nearly 22 countries entered the awards, submitting 4,021 entries. The awards’ 96 categories span all advancement disciplines, from magazines and publications to fundraising campaigns and alumni initiatives, to special events, marketing, leadership, video, and more.
"The Circle of Excellence Awards showcase the impact advancement professionals have upon their institutions and communities around the globe, every day,” says CASE President and CEO Sue Cunningham. "Our 2023 honorees—from diverse institutions and teams of all sizes—are bold, creative, and resourceful. They demonstrate how powerful it is when advancement teams champion teaching, learning, research, and the progress that education ignites."
This year volunteer judges selected 521 exemplary entries for bronze, silver, gold, or Grand Gold recognition. Winners are recognized for overall quality, innovation, use of resources, and the impact on the institution or its communities, such as alumni, parents, students, faculty, and staff.
Starting in 2022 and continuing this year, award entries were considered for global recognition and regional or district recognition. CASE will announce the Best of Regions/Districts later in 2023.
This year’s winner of the annual Robert Sibley Magazine of the Year Award, part of the Circle of Excellence Awards, is Williston Northampton School, an independent boarding and day school for grades 7 to 12 in Easthampton, Massachusetts, U.S. Judges called the Williston Northampton School Bulletin a “cohesive and engaging publication” that “immediately caught [our] attention.”
About CASE
CASE—the Council for Advancement and Support of Education—is a global, not-for-profit membership association with a vision to advance education to transform lives and society.
CASE is the home for advancement professionals, inspiring, challenging, and equipping them to act effectively and with integrity to champion the success of their institutions. CASE defines the competencies and standards for the profession of advancement, leading, and championing their dissemination and application with more than 97,000 advancement professionals at 3,100 member institutions in 80 countries.
Broad and growing communities of professionals gather under the global CASE umbrella. Currently these include alumni relations, development services, communications, fundraising, government relations, and marketing. These professionals are at all stages of their careers and may be working in universities, schools, colleges, cultural institutions, or other not-for-profits. CASE uses the intellectual capital and professional talents of a community of international volunteers to advance its work, and its membership includes many educational partners who work closely with the educational sector.
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