Bergen Community College: College Communicators Continue Winning Ways

Press release from Bergen Community College:

December 3, 2024

The Paul Marshall Concert poster won a gold NCMPR Medallion award for Bergen Community College.

“Bergen has become a stalwart at NCMPR awards programs over the last decade,” Executive Director of Public Relations Larry Hlavenka, Ed.D., said. “Though we don’t set out to win awards, we have an incredible communication team that executes a comprehensive communication strategy that tells Bergen’s story in unique and creative ways. Nonetheless, it’s rewarding to see our work recognized as exemplary among our peers.”

Bergen earned Medallions in four categories, with first-place gold honors in two areas (postcard and poster) and third-place bronze in the other pair (newsletter and postcard).

The poster award recognized a splashed-paint multicolor piece promoting an on-campus performance: the Paul Marshall Scholarship Concert: The Roots of Pop and Rock, Vol. 1. Meanwhile, a whimsically designed postcard for the Bergenstages theatre troupe took home the other gold honor. The Inside Bergen Community College newsletter and a Giving Tuesday postcard for the Bergen Community College Foundation earned the bronze awards. The newsletter Medallion represents Bergen’s sixth in the category, with entries previously winning in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2023.

A panel of independent judges from both academia and industry evaluated submissions from eligible colleges in the northeastern U.S. and Canada before announcing the winners at the NCMPR District 1 conference that took place in Baltimore, Maryland in October.

Based in Paramus, Bergen Community College (www.bergen.edu), a public two-year coeducational college, enrolls more than 13,000 students at locations in Paramus, the Philip Ciarco Jr. Learning Center in Hackensack and Bergen Community College at the Meadowlands in Lyndhurst. The College offers associate degree, certificate and continuing education programs in a variety of fields. More students graduate from Bergen than any other community college in the state.

This press release was produced by Bergen Community College. The views expressed here are the author’s own.