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Brand, Communications, and Marketing

Our Audiences

Every member of the ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ community (past, present and future) has a unique perspective of this university based upon their own experiences. Effective brand positioning finds the right tone and the right voice for each audience while delivering the same consistent messaging.

Imagine each of us as a chorus of unique voices but singing from a single scoreÌýand the power that represents.

Moving these audiences to action, together, in ways that support ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´â€™s strategic priorities is the goal of University Communications and Marketing.
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External

Prospective Students & Their Influencers

Strategic Goal

Increase the awareness of and positive feelings about attending ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´.

Communications Goals

  • Put ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ into the mindshare of prospective students and influencers.
  • Encourage campus interaction, visits, discussions among student-peers and student-influencers.
  • Specifically position ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ as a high-value educational option and provide sufficient program details to generate interest.

Alumni

Strategic Goal

The ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ alumni should be among the very strongest advocates for ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´.

Communications Goals

  • Keep the alumni informed about important developments about ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´.
  • Continue and reinforce the sense of belonging to ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´.
  • Enhance the feeling that the degree they earned is valuable.
  • Encourage the advocacy of the large and growing alumni.

Donors

Strategic Goal

By blending the philanthropic priority of ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ and targeted success messages, increase the rate and level of university giving.

Communications Goals

  • Educate donors on the criticality of ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´â€™s mission and its impact on the communities it serves.
  • Increase understanding that ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ has an increasing reliance upon gifts
  • Create comfort that gifts will be well stewarded.
  • Demonstrate how gifts are leveraged to produce desired outcomes for research, academic scholarship and student success.
  • Show that there are many options for giving.

Employers

Strategic Goal

Position ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ as a producer of high quality, contributing members of the workforce that are great hires.

Communications Goals

  • Instill confidence that both the quantity and quality of students is much more than adequate to meet the needs of employers.
  • Encourage employers to ‘look here first’ for summer employment, internships, and permanent employment.
  • Educate employers as to the breadth and depth that our education provides.

Community & Government Leaders

Strategic Goal

ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ is a top consideration for support, and a great resource to help solve a huge array of regional, national, and international problems.

Communications Goals

  • Build awareness of the distinctive and valuable asset that ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ is in our community.
  • Educate about the economic, cultural and human capital impact on the local community, the region, the state, and the world.
  • Promote ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´â€™s mission and its core values
  • Highlight the research, community service and partnerships that ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ has built.

Internal

Students

Strategic Goal

Continuing to strengthen the ties student have to ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ has two specific outcomes in mind. We want students to be successful. Stronger affiliation with ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ will increase academic success because ‘connected’ students will be more likely to access academic and social support services. We also want our students to consider themselves as lifelong members of ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´.

Communication Goals

  • Increase awareness about the nature and strength of ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´ and its mission, building affiliation
  • Broad awareness and understanding of resources, options, and campus activities.
  • Positive feelings about what they are doing and accomplishing.
  • Increased involvement with the wide array of activities and functions within the university.

Faculty & Staff

Strategic Goal

Increase the direct connection faculty and staff have to the university as a whole and increase the interdepartmental and unit awareness.

Communications Goals

  • Alignment with the vision, mission, and position of the university
  • Engender pride in the university and a sense of belonging to something important and impactful.
  • Paint a picture of the future and generate a sense of excitement about it.
  • Provide all members of the internal community with the information needed to be a strong advocate for ÌÇÐÄÔ­´´.