OCC Marketing Dept. Wins 13 Regional Awards ​at Virtual Conference

OCC Marketing and Public Relations
Nov 12, 2021
  • News Release
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Orange Coast College's marketing and public relations department won 13 Medallion Awards at the National Council of Marketing and Public Relations District 6 and 7 virtual conference and awards ceremony on Nov. 9.

Medallion Awards recognize outstanding achievement in communications at community and technical colleges throughout the U.S. OCC is part of the NCMPR's District 6, which includes Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Utah and areas around Guam.

Coast was recognized with gold awards for the OCC Instagram social media page, a large interior “selfie wall” display, an Honors Night website design, and for the electronic version of the 2020 OCC Annual Report. The College also nabbed silver awards for logo design, the printed version of both the 2020 OCC Annual Report and 2019/2020 OCC Magazine, and the College’s Class Catalog design. OCC took home bronze awards in the “Wild Card,” “Excellence in Writing,” “Microsite,” “E-Card” and “Electronic Newsletter” categories. 

"Each year we gather at NCMPR’s district 6 conference to join our peers from community colleges across the Western United States and engage in collaborative learning and recognition of successful marketing and public relations campaigns and projects,” says Director of Marketing and Public Relations Juan Gutierrez. "OCC's marketing team is consistently recognized as one of the best in community college marketing and PR for their publications, video, graphic design and photography efforts, and this year was no exception."