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Sandra Golden

Sandy Golden has been helping to solve college marketing problems for over 38 years. Since the spring of 1995, she has been doing so as the president of Sandra Golden & Associates, a marketing/public relations consulting firm specializing in providing workshops, audits, research and consulting services to higher education.

• She was previously associate vice president, Public Affairs and Information at Cuyahoga Community College where she held a variety of public relations positions for 25 years, with leadership responsibilities for media relations, publications, marketing, advertising, community relations and special events. Prior to CCC, she was a high school English and journalism teacher.



• She has served as president of the National Council for Marketing and Public Relations (NCMPR), an affiliate of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC), president of the Greater Cleveland Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA), and international trustee of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and chair of its Communications Commission.



• Her professional activities have included speaking at more than 350 conferences and workshops for such organizations as CASE, NCMPR, College Board, USA Group/Noel Levitz and AACC, in addition to providing consulting and workshops to more than 100 individual colleges and college groups. She is also a regular contributor to professional publications, and co-author of the book Shaping the Community College Image. In addition to marketing, she also speaks and writes on topics including special events, media relations, and crisis communications.



• Sandra has won more than l00 top honors for marketing and public relations in professional competitions including CASE, PRSA, NCMPR, Women in Communications, Admissions Marketing and International Association of Business Communicators (IABC).



• Among other recognition she was named to Who's Who in American Women, Who's Who in Public Relations, The World Who's Who of Women, Who’s Who in Executives and Businesses, received the NCMPR Communicator of the Year Award, the CCC Professional Excellence Award and the Cleveland YWCA Career Women of Achievement Award.



• She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland.

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