UC Davis started its 'Unfold' podcast to highlight key strategic communication pillars, including food security and climate change.

In too many organizations, advancement is lagging on diversity, equity, and inclusion when it should be leading—and leading proactively. To build inclusive cultures and achieve real success in DEI objectives, advancement teams have to move from awareness to assessment to understanding. It's action with accountability. In this book excerpt, Angelique Grant and Ronald J. Schiller share key steps for leaders to do that.

The new documentary The Antidote spotlights Amarillo College and its efforts to break the cycle of poverty for its students. The institution’s leaders share their thoughts on the film and how it shows the impact of community colleges.

What do readers want from a university’s newsletter? Tecnológico de Monterrey asked its readers, and built its Tec Review newsletter to be customized, audience-focused, and innovative. Ana Bertha Torres Moya gives an inside look at the process, which won a CASE Platinum Award for Best Practices in Digital Communications.

Red River College highlights its technological tools with grand opening, virtual tours, and robots 

CASE award winners reflect on the key aspects of live theater in educational settings 

Sports rivalries in higher education and among independent schools foster advancement opportunities 

How advancement draws on athletics to communicate with constituents, motivate alumni, and speak to a greater mission—even in an era when the sports environment has changed radically

In the summer of 2020, Virginia Commonwealth University's alumni relations team was looking for new ways to both highlight alumni and create lighthearted, short, non-event programming during COVID-19. So, in July, the Richmond, Virginia, institution lauched its alumni business spotlights on Instagram.

Students today increasingly look to other students on social media for their opinions and thoughts on college life. Their number one platform? YouTube, where room tours and “day in the life” videos rack up thousands of views. So, institutions are getting ahead of the trend by finding and partnering with student influencers or sharing their organic content.