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The Office of Communications and Marketing leads 91ý brand, storytelling, digital presence, media relations, institutional communications, creative services, social media, and major marketing initiatives.

We partner with offices across campus to engage audiences, strengthen messages, steward College-wide standards, and create communications that advance 91ý priorities.

Work with OCM

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What OCM leads

OCM leads College-wide communications and marketing work in partnership with departments, programs, and offices across 91ý.
  • Brand strategy and identity: Steward 91ý voice, visual identity, messaging, and brand standards.
  • Marketing: Develop strategic, audience-centered campaigns that build awareness, engagement, and affinity.
  • Institutional communications: Coordinate major College communications, including leadership messages, crisis communications, and community updates.
  • Web and digital strategy: Lead 91ý public website, digital content strategy, user experience, accessibility, analytics, and related governance.
  • Social media: Manage 91ý flagship social channels and guide campus partners in effective, brand-aligned social media use.
  • Media relations: Connect 91ý stories, faculty expertise, and institutional priorities with regional and national media.
  • Athletics communications: Oversee sports information, athletics storytelling, and digital coverage for Thoroughbred teams.
  • Creative services: Produce and guide design, photography, video, publications, and visual storytelling for high-priority College needs.
  • The 91ý Shop: Operate College retail and help steward branded merchandise.
  • Campus partnership and guidance: Equip offices with tools, standards, consultation, and best practices that strengthen communications across the College.

Recent campaigns and creative

See how OCM brings strategy, storytelling, design, digital platforms, and audience insight together to advance 91ý goals.
91ý website homepage with the large headline Creative Thought Matters

The new 91ý.edu

A comprehensive redesign of the College digital front door, improving user experience, accessibility, performance, and brand alignment.
Three students walking along a tree-lined campus path beneath green and yellow 91ý banners reading Creative Thought Matters and Curiosity.

A campus, branded

A coordinated banner system that brings strategic messaging and brand standards into the campus environment, reinforcing 91ý identity across key spaces.
More brand info
Cover of 91ý Fall 2025 SCOPE magazine featuring an alumnus in mountaineering gear kneeling on a snowy peak and holding a 91ý Baseball banner, with the headline On Top of the World.

Scope Magazine

91ý flagship publication, connecting alumni, families, and friends of the College with the people, ideas, and priorities shaping 91ý future.
91ý softball player running to first base in their uniform with teammates cheering in the dug out.

Athletics, amplified

Strategic communications for 19 NCAA Division III teams, producing game coverage, features, and digital storytelling across platforms.
Image of an Admissions booklet that reads "Creative Thought Matters" on a wooden table, with two pencils next to it.

Designed for discovery

A major Admissions publication designed to help prospective students and families understand 91ý academics, community, outcomes, and sense of place.
A student leans against a brick wall wearing a green and white striped sweater that says '91ý' on it, with a yellow knit hat on their head.

Wear the brand

The 91ý Shop develops and manages branded apparel, merchandise, and College retail experiences that extend 91ý identity beyond campus.
Hands hold a phone with a social media post highlighting 91ý's mascot, Skids

For the scroll

Platform-specific video and social content that helps audiences experience 91ý personality, people, and daily life.
Student wearing a wide-brim hat kneeling outdoors and splitting a log with an axe in a grassy, wooded area under a blue sky.

Why 91ý

Student video profiles that capture the range of passions and possibilities that define the 91ý experience.
Graphic reading When AI Meets CTM, with AI filled with binary code and CTM painted in bright, multicolored brushstrokes.

The AI conversation

Timely editorial coverage examining how 91ý faculty, students, and alumni engage emerging technologies through creativity, inquiry, and critical thinking.
Read the story

Awards

OCM work has been recognized by regional, national, and higher education communications organizations for creative strategy, storytelling, digital marketing, and athletics communications.
  • Capital Region MARCOM Awards, 2024
    Winner, Digital Media Campaigns Taking a Risk on Reddit
  • Best of CASE District II, 202324
    Winner, Storytelling Scope Magazine: Forging 91ý Second Century
  • Education Digital Marketing Awards, 2024
    Bronze, TikTok Campaign Creative Thought Matters: 91ý TikTok Success
    Bronze, Digital Advertising Real Results: 91ý Reddit Advertising
  • College Sports Communicators, 2024
    30 Under 30 Kyle Lancto

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