AUCCCD Award for Excellence in Media

Call for Nominations - 2025 Conference

Deadline: July 1, 2025

The AUCCCD Award for Excellence in Media celebrates outstanding media that highlights the work and impact of college and university counseling centers. This award recognizes innovative, creative, and accessible media that enhances public awareness, student engagement, or professional development in college mental health.

Submit an Award Nomination

Purpose

This award promotes the creation and distribution of high-quality media that elevates the visibility of campus counseling services and supports mental health in higher education communities.

Award Presentation

Award recipient(s) will be honored during a business meeting at the 2025 AUCCCD Conference in Orange County, receive a commemorative plaque, and be recognized through a formal announcement to their institution and the AUCCCD membership.

Eligibilty & Criteria

To be considered, the nominated media must:

• Be published, exhibited, or made publicly available between July 1, 2024, and June 30, 2025.
• Take any form, including (but not limited to) video, audio, photography, digital campaigns, or multi-media productions.
• Clearly focus on issues related to student mental health and student development.
• Be relevant and applicable to the professional work of college counseling centers.
• Reflect current topics, challenges, or innovations in the field.
• Include thoughtful consideration of cultural factors, diversity, and inclusion relevant to the topic.
• Involve at least one primary creator affiliated with an AUCCCD member institution.

Nomination Instructions

To submit a nomination, please be prepared to submit:

• A copy of the media (or an accessible link to the full work).
• A brief statement describing the significance of the piece and how it meets the award criteria.

Submit your nomination using our online form by July 1, 2025. Self-nominations are welcome!

Past Recipients

In recognition of the importance of disseminating information about college mental health issues to the public and our profession, the AUCCCD Communications Committee presents to one or more of its members the annual AUCCCD Media Awards.

2024 Media Award

Mental Health Friday Webinar Series
Andrea Lawson, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo

2023 Media Award

A New Narrative for College Mental Health: Four Key Objectives that Every Campus Counseling Center should Obtain.
Eric Wood, Texas Christian University

2021 Media Award

Speak Fire: Speak Fire is a six week Instagram series hosted by two counselors at the Georgia Southern University Counseling Center. Aimed at addressing the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality, this series is designed to provide a lively discussion to support our Georgia Southern students.
Jodi Caldwell, Jamal Hailey and Raven De La Cruz, Georgia Southern University

2020 Media Award

INSPIRE: International Student Perspectives Inspiring Resiliency
Monica Osburn & North Carolina State Counseling Center Multicultural Committee

2019 Media Award

Dr. Kim Gorman, Western Carolina University
Self Help: Mental Health Skills Videos [Video]

2018 Media Award

Katherine Evans, Seton Hall University - Video:   “What’s Up Doc?:  Panic Attacks”
www.shu.edu/counseling-psychological-services/videos.cfm

2017 Media Award

Monica Osburn, North Carolina State University for the Emmy-Award winning "Stop the Stigma" suicide prevention video.

2007 Media Award

Brigham Young University’s student newspaper, “The Daily Universe” dated March 1, 2007. The paper published a series 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 Award

Counseling Crisis
Inside Higher Education (Available Online)
by Rob Capriccioso

2005 Media Award

Dealing with Students in Crisis: A Systems Approach
Accommodating Students with Learning and Emotional Disabilities by the National Association for College and University Attorneys
Kathy Hollingsworth

2005 Media Award

A Nation of Wimps
Psychology Today
Hara Estroff Marano

2005 Media Award

Notre Dame's college journalism magazine "Scholastic" which dedicated its September 23, 2004 edition to the topic of depression.

2004 Media Award

Sarah Schafer

Martha Anne Kitzrow

2003 Media Award