Awards & Accolades
Awards & Accolades
Awards & Accolades
The last five years of Edelman CCCA featured numerous awards and accolades.
Our college was ranked both nationally and internationally for our programs. In 2021, the website Study.com honored Rowan University with inclusion in its yearly rankings, naming the Bachelor of Arts in Public Relations the #4 program of its kind in the country and the Bachelor of Advertising the #5 program. Our Radio, Television & Film program was ranked #9 internationally by the Broadcast Education Association that same year.
Our faculty and staff continued to recieve honors and reknown. Alongside this, two of our long-standing faculty members were honored with the University-wide Lindback Teaching Award for Excellence.
Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons
The National Press Foundation honored Nancy Ohanian (Art), whose syndicated political illustrations publish in some 250 newspapers each week, with the Clifford K. and James T. Berryman Award for Editorial Cartoons in 2018. Ohanian is the first full time educator to win the Berryman since the NPF launched its awards program nearly 30 years ago.
QUEST at Sundance
Jonathan Olshefski (RTF) reached instant critical acclaim after his documentary QUEST became one of 113 films out of nearly 14,000 submissions selected for the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. In June, QUEST premiered on PBS, reaching a national audience.
BMAV designs VR for the U.S. Army
A team of biomedical art students and faculty, led by Amanda Almon (Biomedical Art & Visualization), create storyboards, illustrations and 3D models of the visual environment in the virtual and augmented reality simulation for the U.S. Army.
Our Lindback Award Winners
Honored annually, the Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award recognizes one Rowan University faculty member for an outstanding record of teaching and a sustained record of commitment to student learning. Our college celebrated two Lindback honors over the past five years in 2020 and 2021.
Suzanne Fitzgerald (PR/Ad)
Suzanne FitzGerald, Ph.D., APR, Fellow PRSA was honored in 2020 with the prestigious Lindback Teaching Award. She is professor and chair of the Department of Public Relations & Advertising at Rowan University. She offers an unusual educator/practitioner perspective with a doctorate from Temple and the Fellow credential awarded to fewer than 2 percent of all PR practitioners.
Carl Hausman (Journalism)
As a full professor in the Department of Journalism, Hausman received Rowan’s greatest faculty honor, the 2021 Lindback Teaching Award, recognition for his commitment to reach students and continually inspire them, often through stories.
