2009 Accolades and Awards
Updated September 1, 2009
- Meredith College is one of the best colleges and universities in the Southeast according to The Princeton Review. The education services company selected Meredith as one of the institutions it recommends in its "Best in the Southeast" section of its web site feature “2010 Best Colleges: Region by Region.”
- “The Colton Review”, Meredith’s journal of art, literature and opinion, earned Award of Excellence in the student-published work category from the University and College Designers Association (UCDA). The journal also earned an Award of Excellence in the 2008 Print Excellence And Knowledge (PEAK) Awards competition.
- Meredith Professor of Biology John Mecham has been elected a 2008-09 SENCER Leadership Fellow by the National Fellowship Board of the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement (NCSCE). Fellowships honor educators for their exemplary leadership and commitment to the improvement of science, technology, engineering and mathematics education.
- Meredith President Maureen A. Hartford received the inaugural Humanitarian Award as part of Women in Business Awards presented by “The Triangle Business Journal.” The award was announced during a celebration on August 6, 2008.
- Meredith College has been cited as one the Best in the Southeast from The Princeton Review for 2008, one of 146 schools to receive designation from the publication. The Princeton Review makes its selection by surveying college students about their schools. Student opinion data from a total of 654 schools is featured on the Best Colleges: Region by Region section of PrincetonReview.com.
- Sherry Shapiro, Meredith professor of dance and director of women’s studies, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant to research and lecture at the University of Cape Town in South Africa from January through July 2009.
- Meredith Associate Professor of Biology Francie Cuffney has been elected vice president of the North Carolina Academy of Science for 2008-09.
- Meredith’s Office of Marketing & Communications won three awards in the 2008 Sir Walter Raleigh Awards, which recognize excellence in communication. Meredith received Gold awards for the 2008 President’s Report and for an admissions publication titled “The Value of Meredith.” A Silver award was presented for Meredith’s online virtual tour.
- Denise Rotondo, dean of Meredith’s School of Business, is one of 24 Impact Education Leaders recognized in the May 2008 issue of “Business Leader” magazine.
- Ten of the 25 designers who participated in the Women’s Club of Raleigh 2008 American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) Designer showhouse were alumnae of or students currently enrolled in Meredith’s interior design program.
- Meredith’s student presenters earned awards for presentations at the 2008 Beta Beta Beta Southeastern Region Annual Meeting. Senior Brittany Ross received a third place award, and senior Molly Aiken and junior Emily Kale both earned honorable mentions.
- The Meredith College Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) chapter placed second in the 2008 Southeast Regional HR Games.
- Meredith junior Jessica L. Loehman received the North Carolina Psychological Foundation President's Award for Undergraduate Research at the spring 2008 conference of the North Carolina Psychological Association.
- Meredith College senior Preethi Sriram received the 2008 John Bowley Derieux Research Award, which is given to undergraduate students who present work at the annual meeting of the North Carolina Academy of Science.
- Meredith College junior Emily King received the Chair’s Commendation Award for her work at the 2008 Southeast University Model Arab League. The award is given to the delegate who best portrayed his or her country.
- A dance choreographed by Carol Finley, director of Meredith Dance Theatre (MDT), was chosen for performance at the gala concert of the American College Dance Festival Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference.
- A Meredith student team won the poster contest at the Student Chapter of the North Carolina Association of Educators (SNCAE) 2008 conference. Team members were Brittany Krohn, ’09, Catherine Pannill, ’11, and Kala Stanton, ’09.
- Meredith MBAs recently scored higher than 90 percent of other MBA students from colleges and universities across the nation who took the ETS Field Test of Business, MBA. The nationally-normed test is used to assess mastery of business concepts, critical thinking, and reasoning ability for MBA students. Meredith gives the ETS Field Test of Business, MBA to its graduating MBA students, and the results from 2007 were outstanding. As a whole, Meredith MBAs scored at the 90th percentile, meaning they performed better than 90 percent of all other test-takers from other institutions.
- Meredith College Interior Design students, Mary Rose and Allison van der Berg, placed first and third respectively in a student design competition, “Unity in Style”, sponsored by the High Point Design Center Association. The competition was open to ID students in undergraduate programs in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee.
- Meredith College earned a place in the Top 40 in the “Open Doors 2007” report on international educational exchange. Meredith is ranked 24th for study abroad participation among master’s institutions. The report ranks institutions by percentage of students participating in study abroad for academic credit. report is published by the Institute of International Education (IIE), the leading not-for-profit educational and cultural exchange organization in the United States.
- Meredith College senior Hayley McPhail received the second annual North Carolina Campus Compact Community Impact Student Award. This award is presented each year to students who have made significant, innovative contributions to campus-based efforts to address community needs. McPhail is the founder of Meredith’s Habitat for Humanity chapter.
- Meredith College President Maureen A. Hartford was chosen by “Business Leader” magazine as one of the publication’s “Women Extraordinaire” of 2007.
- Marisa S. Campbell, director of the Paralegal Program at Meredith College, was elected President of the American Association for Paralegal Education (AAfPE). The AAfPE is an organization of nearly 400 educational institutions, and more than 5,000 educators.
- Meredith College President Maureen Hartford has been named chair of the Marine Corps University Board of Visitors. Hartford was named a member of the Marine Corps University's Board of Visitors in 2004, and reappointed in 2007.
- Meredith Career Center Director Marie B. Sumerel was appointed by Governor Mike Easley to serve on the North Carolina Internship Council for a two-year term.
- Meredith’s Honors Program web site tied for second place nationally in the “National Collegiate Honors Council Small College Website” competition. The competition was judged and awarded by students at other college honors programs.
- Meredith Professor of Biology John Mecham was selected to present research during the 2008 National Center for Civic Engagement and SENCER’s Washington Symposium, held April 13-15, in Washington, D.C. SENCER – Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities – is the signature program of the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement. Mecham’s presentations focused on the Life Science in Context: Sub-Saharan Africa course, which was developed and taught at three consortium institutions: Meredith, NC Wesleyan and the University of South Carolina-Sumter. This effort also included collaboration with faculty and students at two universities in Kenya.
