Albertus Magnus College Achieves Silver Lining at PRSA Mercury Awards
Marketing, Communications, & Web Team Earns 2 Silvers; Recognized 7 Years Straight
MarCommWeb Team
New Haven, Conn., December 11, 2024 – Albertus Magnus College is proud to once again be recognized by the Public Relations Society of America
Greater Connecticut Chapter (PRSA-CT) — this time earning two Silver Mercury Awards
as the organization celebrates the best work in public relations throughout the state.
The College achieved this level of excellence in two categories: Campaigns/Multicultural
and Diversity as well as Campaigns/Social Media. The pieces honored are Albertus
is a Designated Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) and Albertus Senior Success Stories 2024 — again, both earning Silver.
Congratulations go out to the entire Marketing, Communications, and Web Team (MarCommWeb) with a special thank you to Vice President for Academic Affairs and
Dean of Faculty Rosa Rivera-Hainaj, Ph.D. for being in the forefront as the “face”
of the implemented HSI strategy. Appreciation is also extended to the team’s video
partner, Establishment Productions for their excellent creative collaboration.
“This team strives for creative excellence and execution every day and in every project.
Working as one to tell the Albertus story, we are able to accomplish great things,”
said Albertus Vice President for Marketing and Community Relations Andrea Kovacs,
who is also a PRSA-CT Board Member.
The November 21 PRSA-CT celebration was held at The 1877 Club in Hartford. For the
past seven years, Albertus has won PRSA honors at every level in a wide range of
categories, from reputation/brand management to blogs and from media relations to
website redesign.
About Albertus Magnus College
Albertus Magnus College, founded in 1925, is a coeducational Catholic College in the Dominican tradition. As New England's most diverse Catholic College, Albertus' values- and liberal arts-based education is recognized by external rankings such as US News & World Report, Money Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education, and has been named a Top 10 Military Friendly School. For eight consecutive years, graduating classes at Albertus have achieved post-graduate employment and graduate school success at a rate of at least 95%. The College has an enrollment of approximately 1,300 students across its traditional undergraduate, accelerated adult undergraduate, and 12 graduate programs. Proud to enroll a student body where more than half of its students come from minority backgrounds with nearly the same percentage of undergraduates receiving Federal Pell Grants and being first generation college goers, Albertus is known for its innovative curricular offerings, recently launching new Bachelor's degree programs in Nursing, General Health Sciences, Interdisciplinary Studies, Public Health, and Supply Chain Management; among its graduate programs is the State of Connecticut's only Master of Arts in Art Therapy and Counseling program. Just two years from its historic 100 th Anniversary Year, the College is implementing its Albertus 2025: Lighting the Way to a Second Century strategic plan, which articulates an inspiring, bold vision to "be a destination liberal arts-based college, distinguished in its interdisciplinary and experiential approach to education, rooted in Dominican values, that prepares students for lifelong civic engagement and success." To learn more, please visit albertus.edu.