MANSFIELD, PA— The Mansfield University Departmen
t of Marketing won a Bronze Award in the TV Advertising: Produced In-House category at the ninth annual CUPPIE Awards in Hershey, PA on March 10.
Mansfield was honored for the TEAM PA commercial, which was produced when MU’s innovative merit-based, tuition incentive program was launched in fall 2014.
The commercial featured 2015 graduate Tyanna Roberts and was produced by Adam Murtland ’12, Mark Polonia and Dennis Miller ’71.
The highly competitive CUPPIE Awards are presented annually and are designed to recognize and honor creative excellence in the field of higher education marketing and communications.
The awards are presented as part of the annual CUPRAP Development Conference. Founded in Pennsylvania in 1980 as one of the nation’s few statewide organizations, CUPRAP members now come from many states and number nearly 350 members from 100 institutions.
CUPRAP members work in public relations, media relations, marketing, publications, sports information, web and graphic design, and other fields. Members come from private and public colleges and universities, junior colleges, community colleges, independent schools, as well as other organizations involved in higher education.