{"id":27439,"date":"2026-11-02T14:58:56","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T19:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=27439"},"modified":"2026-11-02T16:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T21:02:12","slug":"marketing-communications-staff-member-wins-2026-case-best-of-district-v-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2026\/11\/02\/marketing-communications-staff-member-wins-2026-case-best-of-district-v-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Marketing &amp; Communications staff member wins 2026 CASE Best of District V Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-27430 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/11\/ricky-lindsay.jpg?resize=186%2C248&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"a photo of Ricky Lindsay\" width=\"186\" height=\"248\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 186px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 186\/248;\" \/>Ricky Lindsay, senior communications officer for the Marketing &amp; Communications Department, won a 2025-2026 Best of the District Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Award for his feature profile titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.udmercy.edu\/about\/news\/articles\/2025\/06-23-making-a-wheel-difference.php\">Making a Wheel Difference<\/a>.\u201d This story also appeared in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udmercy.edu\/faculty-staff\/marcom\/spiritus-archive\/2025-Spring.php\">June 2025 issue of Spiritus Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Awards will be presented at the District V &amp; District VI Annual Conference in Minneapolis, April 5-7, 2027.<\/p>\n<p>This is the second year in a row that MarCom\u2019s work has earned significant recognition. In 2025, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.udmercy.edu\/about\/news\/articles\/2025\/11-10-spiritus-wins-prestigious-award.php\">Spiritus Magazine won the Best of the District V award<\/a> for General Interest\/Alumni magazines.<\/p>\n<p>CASE is a leading international professional association serving colleges, universities, independent schools and other educational institutions. District V has more than 400 member institutions and encompasses six states: Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.case.org\/awards\">More on CASE awards and recognition<\/a>.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ricky Lindsay, senior communications officer for the Marketing &amp; Communications Department, won a 2025-2026 Best of the District Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) Award for his feature profile titled &#8216;Making a Wheel Difference.&#8217; This is the second year in a row that MarCom\u2019s work has earned significant CASE recognition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":22157,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[4130,7593,7594,123,2349,2453,5445],"class_list":["post-27439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ccnews","tag-case","tag-case-awards","tag-case-best-of-district-v-awards","tag-marcom","tag-marketing-communications","tag-marketing-communications-department","tag-ricky-lindsay"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-78z","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2025\/06\/bikes-from-the-heart-3.jpg?fit=770%2C578&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27439"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27444,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27439\/revisions\/27444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}