AUCCCD Media and Professional Scholarship Awards


Call for Nominations

2010 Call for Nominations [MW]

Past Recipients

In recognition of the importance of disseminating information about college mental health issues to the public and our profession, the AUCCCD Public Relations and Advocacy Committee established three annual media awards, initially awarded in 2003. The award winners for 2003 and all subsequent years are listed below.

2008 Media Awards and Recognitions

  • Professional Scholarship Award
    Managing Violent and Other Troubling Students:
    The Role of Threat Assessment Teams on Campus
    by John Dunkle, Zachary B. Silverstein, and Scott L. Warner
    Article published in Journal OF College and University Law Vol. 34, No. 3, 2008.

2007 Media Awards and Recognitions

Brigham Young University’s student newspaper, “The Daily Universe” dated March 1, 2007. The paper published a seroies of articles on domestic abuse and violence. Nominated by Ron Chapman, the director of the counseling and Career Center at Brigham Young. Dr. Chapman said, “The Daily Universe” is a student operated and edited publication….I believe that they have done a fine job addressing a difficult topic with candor and humanity.”

2006 Media Awards and Recognitions

  • Professional Scholarship Award
    Achieving Social Justice for College Women with Disabilities
    by Barbara Palombi
    A chapter in The Handbook for Social Justice in Counseling Psychology
  • Best Journalistic Publication Media Award
    Counseling Crisis
    by Rob Capriccioso
    Published in Inside Higher Education (Available Online)

2005 Media Awards and Recognitions

  • Professional and Scholarly Media Award
    Dealing with Students in Crisis: A Systems Approach
    by Kathy Hollingsworth
    A chapter in Accommodating Students with Learning and Emotional Disabilities by the National Association for College and University Attorneys
  • Professional Journalistic Media Award
    A Nation of Wimps
    by Hara Estroff Marano Published in Psychology Today
  • College Journalistic Award
    Notre Dame's college journalism magazine "Scholastic" which dedicated its September 23, 2004 edition to the topic of depression.

2004 Media Awards and Recognitions

  • A Dying Trend
    by Vanessa Grigoriadis
  • Struggling to be Skinny
    by Sarah Schafer
  • The Mental Health Needs of Today's College Students: Challenges and Recommendations
    by Martha Anne Kitzrow

2003 Media Awards and Recognitions

  • Ivy League students flock to therapists
    by Rebecca Dana
  • Who Was Responsible For Elizabeth Shin?
    by Deborah Sontag