May 30, 2003
MU Extension picks up five
national awards
MU faculty and staff recently were presented
five awards at the University Continuing Education
Association's annual conference in Chicago.
Faculty at the Center for Distance and
Independent Study received the Outstanding Course
Award for K-12 in the UCEA Distance Learning
Awards Program for the course Interactive Spanish
1, First Half Unit. The creative team consisted of
course author Joy Benson, course editor Tracy
Barnett and designers Sandhya Sharma and Julie
Moriarity.
Staff from MU Extension Marketing won four
awards in UCEA's marketing competition for
universities with more than 25,000 enrollments:
- Nancy Daniel, marketing publications
coordinator, won a bronze award in the poster
competition for MU High School's "Lewis
& Clark: William Clark Writing in his
Journal at Eagle Creek, May 31, 1805."
Gary R. Lucy, an artist from Washington, Mo.,
was the illustrator.
- Daniel and Kristi Smalley, principal of MU
High School, received a bronze award
recognizing the publications campaign for the
2002-2003 MU High School bulletin, folder and
inserts disseminated to schools in Missouri
and other states.
- The MU High School bulletin and the Center
for Distance and Independent Study's
university bulletin tied for the Meritorious
Award in UCEA's distance learning community of
practice catalog competition.
- Lesley McKinnon and Tanya Heath, both
marketing specialists, earned an honorable
mention in the category for single
advertisements of three or more colors for
"This Summer Become an Even Better
Teacher," a Center for Distance and
Independent Study ad that ran in the Missouri
State Teachers' Association magazine, School
and Community.
