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MTSU Honors College
contact: Marsha Powers, 615-898-5759 or Marsha.Powers@mtsu.edu
Captures
top Collegiate Crown Award for second consecutive year
MURFREESBORO — MTSU’s
“Collage: A Journal of Creative Expression” continues to excel against peer
publications in national competitions.
“Collage” recently earned a Collegiate Gold Crown Award from
the Columbia Scholastic Press Association for the second straight year and
third major award in the past three years, University Honors College Dean John
Vile announced
Edmund J. Sullivan, executive director of the Columbia
Scholastic Press Association, announced the 2013 Collegiate Crown Award winners
recently at the College Media Convention in New York City.
“In the years that ‘Collage’ has been housed in the Honors
College, it consistently has won awards, but the last three have been
especially special,” Vile said. “‘Collage’ is a great example of bright
students working under the coordination of a dedicated staff member (Marsha
Powers) and producing a publication in which the entire university community
can take pride.”
Collage is published two times a year. Copies are available
in the Paul W. Martin Sr. Honors Building, both in the first-floor students’
commons area and outside the “Collage” office (Room 224). Copies also are
available in special racks around campus in Peck Hall and the Todd, Student
Union and John Bragg Mass Communication buildings.
“Winning Crown Awards three years in a row, one silver and
two gold, is a high honor and a testimony to the quality of our students,”
Powers said, mentioning senior Courtney Hunter and alumna Jennifer Johnson,
editors-in-chief and designer of the award-winning issues, who “worked
tirelessly to produce quality journals both semesters. Their leadership, the
input of our committed staff and the talent of MTSU’s student contributors were
a winning combination.”
Hunter and Johnson discussed their “Collage” experiences and
the accumulating recognition.
“I’m proud of the staff and submitters who contributed to
the fall 2011 and spring 2012 issues,” said Hunter, an art major, this year’s
editor-in-chief and designer of the award-winning issues.
“They gave me ample creative content to design two
impressive journals,” Hunter added. “Designing these issues was an invaluable
experience that allowed me to explore and develop my style on a platform where
my growth would be recognized. I am grateful to have had the opportunity.”
“‘Collage’ holds a very dear place in my heart, perhaps
because of the community and collaboration of which it is a product,” Johnson
said. “It is an honor to have been a part of this publication and to have
contributed to the Gold Crown magazines.”
Johnson recently was accepted into the graduate counseling
at Peabody College of Education and Human Development at Vanderbilt University.
In the recent contest, 1,344 digital, print and hybrid
magazines, newspapers and yearbooks published during the 2011-12 academic year
were eligible for judging in the 2013 Columbia University Crown Awards program,
Powers said. Only three college print magazines received Gold Crown Awards and
five earned Silver Crown Awards. All were judged Dec. 8-10, 2012, at Columbia
University.
This year marks the 45th anniversary of
“Collage,” which began in 1968. It has been sponsored by the Honors College
since 2004.
Powers oversees the student editors who review visual
submissions that include photographs and works of art and literary selections
that include prose and poetry from MTSU students across campus. She said
“Collage” is very selective, typically selecting only 50 to 60 out of about 250
submissions per issue. Nashville-based Franklin Graphics prints the magazine.
For the past two years, alumnus Paul Martin, the first
graduate from the Honors College, has made a special contribution to support
“Collage” and other honors publications. He gave this year’s donation in honor
of MTSU President Sidney A. McPhee for his continuing dedication to the Honors
College and for his unwavering commitment to academic excellence.
Alumnus Bruce C. Huskey also supported the publications with
a special gift.
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