New Staff Affairs Committee Members Named

Three new members have been selected to serve on the Staff Affairs Committee through June 30, 2013.  New members are Gail Carnagua - At-Large, Amy Losordo - College Programs Division, and Claytona Nixon - Institutional Advancement Division. Returning members are Mattie Hawkins  - At-Large, Kris Householder - Business & Finance Division, Deb Laube - Academic Programs Division and Lauren Sumner - President's Division. The following staff members completed terms on the committee on June 30: Ron Anderson, Jean Gambrill, Edna Gregory, and Donna Knott.

 

New Viewbook Published
An updated version of the Meredith College Viewbook, a primary admissions marketing tool, has recently been published.  This printed piece presents a comprehensive picture of Meredith, emphasizing its unique qualities, providing a sense of what the College “feels” like to a student, with the goal of encouraging students to schedule a visit or apply to Meredith.

 

Prospective students will receive the viewbook as part of the College’s recruitment efforts. Click here to see the new viewbook online.

The new viewbook uses the “I Believe” brand, and features student profiles and quotes about the Meredith experience.

 

Sections are designed around the following themes:

• Learning, featuring information on the strength of Meredith’s academic programs;
• Succeeding, including facts about the success of Meredith graduates, in careers and graduate schools;
• Living, highlighting campus life and Meredith traditions; and
• Exploring, which focuses on Meredith’s campus and our Raleigh location.

The new viewbook, which is printed on a two-year cycle, is a project of the Department of Marketing and the Office of Admissions. As part of this project, the “Why Meredith?” section of the Admissions website was redesigned to work in tandem with the viewbook’s messaging. Visit www.meredith.edu/admissions/why_meredith for more.

 

College Stationery Online Ordering System
Meredith College stationery items, including business cards, letterhead, envelopes and note cards, can now be ordered online through the College’s new vendor, Universal Printing’s Eprint system.

To facilitate this new system, the Department of Marketing held two hour-long training sessions to teach employees responsible for ordering stationery how to use this new system. The sessions were led by Universal Printing staff, who demonstrated the basics of using Eprint, including how to reorder items and how to customize letterhead and business cards.

Approximately 15 employees attended each session. Another training session may be offered in July if additional employees need to learn how to use the Eprint system.  If you would like to attend the July training session, email harrisva@meredith.edu.

 

Through a competitive bidding process, Universal Printing was selected earlier this year to fulfill the College’s stationery needs at a significant savings to offices and departments across campus. Universal Printing is based in Durham, N.C.
 
Meredith faculty and staff who need to order stationery but have not been trained to use the new system should contact Vanessa Harris in the Department of Marketing at ext. 8405 or harrisva@meredith.edu.

 

Meredith Student Crowned Miss North Carolina
Meredith student Hailey Best is the new Miss North Carolina. Best won the title representing Durham during the Miss North Carolina competition on Saturday, June 25, 2011. She will participate in the Miss America pageant in January.

 

Best is a vocal performance major at Meredith, and recently sang one of the leading roles in Benjamin Britten’s “Turn of the Screw.” She won the Miss North Carolina preliminary talent competition by singing opera.

 

The first runner up, Virginia Zelle Brown, is also a Meredith student. Brown competed as Miss Garner.

 

In this Issue:

Jo Allen, ’80, Reflects on Her First Week As Meredith President
Presidential Lecture Series to Have Dual Funding for 2011-12
Interior Design Students Win Awards in Two Competitions
John Creagh Scholarship Endowment Fund Signing Held
New 23+ Undergraduate Scholarship Honoring Sandra Critzer Close, '86
Meredith Named to Presidential Service Honor Roll
Faculty/Staff Accomplishments
Upcoming Events
News Briefs

 

Have you presented research or attended a professional meeting recently? Has your department earned an award? Share news of these accomplishments and more with the Meredith community. Faculty and staff are invited to email items to Melyssa Allen, “Campus Connections” editor, at allenme@meredith.edu.