What kind of philanthropist are you? That’s what McGill University’s annual giving team invited its community to discover through a fun, Buzzfeed-style quiz for Giving Tuesday 2023.

Carroll Community College created a different kind of employee social media advocacy program. Instead of a marketing team creating messages and then distributing them to employees to post, Carroll’s program, called an “employee impact initiative,” focuses on empowering its faculty and staff on social media.

University recruitment videos tend to follow a similar formula—but Leeds Beckett University had other ideas. In 2022, the institution took a different, cinematic approach to capture arts students and alumni performing original pieces in a newly opened arts facility on the U.K. university’s campus.

Six 2023 Circle of Excellence Awards went to end-of-year video holiday messages, including the Dragon School’s “A Present from the Past.” Find out more about this Grand Gold Award-winning film here and watch the other five award-winning videos.

Tufts University used a drone and a special camera lens to create a film that downsized its campus and showed tiny versions of its community moving about at high speed.

For its 75th anniversary celebrations, The Australian National University launched 75 Features, a storytelling project highlighting alumni connections. Learn more about the stories featured and how they were shared here.

University of Iowa Center for Advancement capitalized on the alumni response to a simple question posted to its Facebook page on National Pizza Day in 2021: "Where was your favorite place to get pizza as a student?"

Despite frequenting the University of Florida, U.S., campus since 1994—first as a student, then as an employee—Alisson Clark had never noticed the inscription in the concrete in a well-trodden section of the Gainesville campus. "Cheryl, if love could be like trees, you would be a forest." The inscription was signed only ’77, presumably a reference to the year. Clark decided to try to track down the mysterious suitor's story.

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.

A holiday video message is a common undertaking for many schools and universities, but the 2020 messages took on a new importance as many institutions were virtual and social distancing guidelines were in place.