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You probably wouldn’t expect The University of Southern Mississippi to be accepting national awards among top marketers from American Express or Coca Cola, but in June, the university’s president, Dr. Martha Saunders , took home its second Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Silver Anvil Award, as well as several Silver Anvil Awards of Excellence. While the daunting task of branding a University is a far cry from branding a small business, I jumped at the opportunity to learn a few things from the woman who increased Southern Miss’s national media coverage by over 800 percent, web traffic by 107 percent, the alumni association by more than a 1,000 members beyond its goals and freshmen enrollment by 14 percent
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