Across Circle of Excellence Awards categories, women-focused themes emerged. Here are five winning entries that highlight, uplift, and celebrate women through compelling storytelling.

In the past two years, Wheaton College evaluated its social media ambassador program to better align it with institutional diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging goals. Anice Rodrigues Barbosa’s team created systemic practices that continue to generate growth within the program and division, as well as throughout the college.

Rates of mental health issues among college students have been rising for a nearly a decade—made worse by the pandemic. Now, more colleges and universities are discussing, focusing on, and prioritizing mental health initiatives. Here’s how advancement teams are working to support students’ mental health today, by raising awareness and sharing information, mobilizing donor and alumni support, and promoting wellness campuswide.

To help students overcome geographic, economic, and social barriers to education, LUMS launched a comprehensive recruitment and support initiative. Here's how the Pakistan university's award-winning program is making an impact.

All Day Hall Day offers 24 hours of activities and giving opportunities.

Many agree that collecting, storing, and analyzing qualitative data is vital to advancement’s growth and an important balance to departments’ continually growing quantitative data capabilities. But is there a method that’s scalable? How can advancement professionals work with data that is, by its definition, difficult to measure? 

What is race equity as it applies to education institutions? How are advancement teams approaching this work, which experts say involves a wholesale transformation of organizational cultures? How are institutions and individuals moving forward in the name of equity? 

The director of strategic communications at The Browning School shares her thoughts on representation, authenticity, and the power of alumni of color.

Sonbol Aliabadi, executive director of the Sierra College Foundation, discusses the passion and hard work necessary to assist community college students when they need it the most. 

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