To help a magazine story really shine, give it an illuminating illustration. Here, the 2024 Circle of Excellence winners in the illustration category share their advice for marketing and communications team members collaborating on graphics and illustrations.

CASE’s 50th anniversary is also a time to look to the future. Five advancement leaders share thoughts on the challenges ahead, along with what makes them optimistic in this roundtable discussion.

Many recent Circle of Excellence Awards entries touch on environmental issues. Ahead of Earth Day 2022 on April 22, learn about the latest environmental research with three facts about climate change from award-winning projects.

Circle of Excellence winners showcase three components of great data visualizations

To communicate its value to prospective families, Shanghai American School found methods to “make stories part of the everyday”—even on the international school’s fleet of buses.

How do higher education institutions display the value of the research being done on campus in a world where it is only getting more difficult to hold someone’s attention?

Amid tight budgets, a shifting readership, and the drive for engaging online content—is print dead? The answer, by all accounts, is no. Print is alive and well. Alumni and school magazines have stayed relevant and resonant with audiences by leveraging the strengths of print and strategically grappling with cost challenges.

For members seeking information on a variety of advancement topics, the CASE Library’s Advancement Resource Catalog provides a central stop for resources on topics including campaign planning, engaging non-traditional alumni, and the latest research in the world of advancement.

The chicken or the egg? The data or the story? Which comes first? Learn how (and why) to make your data accessible to a broad audience.

Q: How do you decide what data to dig into for your illustrations? What intrigues you?