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Your Learning Has Just Begun, Dr. Booth Tells Graduates.......... 6
9-11 Survivor Calls Faculty Her ‘Dream Team’.................... 11
NHC Funds Health Care Equipment................................ 16
Welcome Back Week........ 18–19
August 2016
Gayle Arries Receives Presidential Medallion For Staff Excellence Gayle Arries, director of Marketing, was honored August 15 with the highest award given for staff excellence at the College. Dr. Booth presented Gayle with the Presidential Medallion for Staff Excellence at the College’s Fall Convocation. The medallion, along with a cash award made possible by the Tri-County Technical College Foundation, goes to a person who best exemplifies the College philosophy and has contributed the most during the academic year to the development of the College and its students. Gayle joined the College in 2005. As Director of Marketing, she manages the College’s advertising, marketing, and graphics projects. “Gayle brings passion and vision to her work every day and is committed to transforming lives through the College’s educational programs, one student at Gayle Arries a time. Gayle is creative and fosters the ability for those around her to develop new ideas, test those ideas, and bring those ideas to fruition,” said Linda Jameison, assistant vice president for Student Support and Engagement, in her nomination letter. “Her work over the last two years with colleagues to connect with prospective, past, and returning students is an example of her expertise. Her ability to bring people to consensus resulted in creating a marketing and advertising campaign that generated excitement about possibilities our students can realize. It is an example that her work isn’t just about the tag line or the visual; it’s about the people who can be inspired by the message,” said Linda. Over the years, Gayle has worked with groups all over campus to assess and streamline the College’s recruitment and enrollment communications and processes. In 2013, she chaired the Communication and Tools for Students Success team, a group comprised of eight persons representing all areas of the College who were involved with the matriculation process. The charter group worked to streamline the enrollment process. Later that year she was selected to be a presenter at the Community College Enrollment Management and Student Marketing Symposium in Raleigh, North Carolina. She spoke about the matriculation improvement project in a presentation titled “Marketing and Enrollment Management: Essential Collaboration.” In 2015 she, along with Koolflix partners Clark Smith and Tim Angevine, were co-presenters at the National Council for Marketing and Public Relations (NCMPR) annual conference in
Passionate people TRANSFORMING LIVES
AND BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITIES ONE STUDENT AT A TIME.
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