For Immediate Release:
January 25, 2022
Primary Media Contact:
Sally Voth
Public Relations Specialist
[email protected]
Phone: 540-868-7134
Laurel Ridge’s newly-redesigned website was recently named a Gold winner in the institutional website category in the 2021 Education Digital Marketing Awards.
The website award was just one of seven awards won during the ceremony by Roanoke-based Access, which specializes in graphic design, advertising, web and app development, public relations, video content creation and more. Access assisted Laurel Ridge in creating its new website.
The Education Digital Marketing Awards recognize the best educational websites, digital content, electronic communications, mobile media and social media from colleges and universities nationwide. A national panel of industry specialists reviewed the entries, judging creativity, marketing execution, message impact, technology application and innovation content.
Laurel Ridge’s new website launched in August with a focus on search ease and being mobile-friendly with clean scrollable content.
“We’re very proud of this award and thankful for all the hard work Access put in to helping us redesign our site,” said Laurel Ridge Public Relations Director Brandy Boies. “When students are researching colleges, the first place they look is at the college website. We wanted to make our site as user-friendly as possible with easily accessible and searchable information for our prospective students and their supporters, and as this award demonstrates, we succeeded in doing that.”
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Founded in 1970, Laurel Ridge Community College is a multi-campus public institution of higher education. With four locations — Middletown, Warrenton, Luray-Page County and most recently, Vint Hill— the College serves eight localities in the Shenandoah Valley and northern Piedmont regions. The localities are the counties of Clarke, Fauquier, Frederick, Page, Rappahannock, Shenandoah and Warren and the city of Winchester. Laurel Ridge offers more than 75 associate degree and certificate programs in a wide variety of disciplines, in addition to providing access to bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degree programs offered on site by a four-year institution. Laurel Ridge also serves the business community by offering workforce preparation programs for employees and employers. Laurel Ridge serves more than 9,000 unduplicated credit students and more than 11,000 individuals in professional development and business and industry courses annually.
Laurel Ridge Community College (Laurel Ridge) is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award associate degrees. Contact the Commission on Colleges at 1866 Southern Lane, Decatur, Georgia 30033-4097 or call 404-679-4500 for questions about the accreditation of Laurel Ridge Community College. Laurel Ridge Community College is an equal opportunity institution providing educational and employment opportunities, programs, services, and activities and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, age, religion, disability, national origin, marital status, political affiliation, sexual orientation, or other non-merit factors. Laurel Ridge also prohibits sexual misconduct including sexual violence or harassment.
Laurel Ridge Community College was known as Lord Fairfax Community College until June 2022. For consistency purposes, the college will be referenced as Laurel Ridge going forward.
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