Marketing & Communications
Marketing and Communications is Ï㽶´«Ã½â€™s dedicated communications agency. Our results-oriented team of experienced and talented professionals provide leadership, strategy, services, and support to advance the LR brand and help the university achieve its mission.
We work with you to ensure successful, targeted, collaborative communications. We do it all: strategy, planning, public and media relations, emergency communications, marketing, web development, social media, video, photography and graphic design.
Contact us today. Our team looks forward to working with you to advance LR.
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Project Requests
All new project requests are initiated with Darsee Heath, associate director for strategic marketing and communications. She can be reached at darsee.heath@lr.edu.
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Brand Style Guide
The Lenoir-Rhyne brand is the summation of our values, mission and vision. It is a representation of our commitment to liberate mind and spirit, clarify personal faith, foster physical wholeness, build a sense of community, and promote responsible leadership for service in the world. The LR brand is much more than a logo, it is a visual summation of who we are.
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Web Content Update Requests
Please submit web content update requests using our simple online submission form. Requests are entered in our tracking system and you can request an email confirmation of your online submission.
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Working with the Media
The news media provide an important communication channel to the citizens of Hickory and surrounding communities in the region, state, and nation. Public understanding and support of Ï㽶´«Ã½ programs can be enhanced through strong working relationships with the media and the provision of information in cooperative, coordinated fashion.
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Event Marketing & Promotion
Allow a minimum of four weeks for maximum publicity, much more time—four to six months to a year—for larger institutional events that require advance promotion to seat a large audience or for an event series. Promote continuously over the weeks leading up to an event.
Use internal and external calendars, email, snail mail, social media, posters/fliers and advertising to promote your event to the campus community, area schools and colleges, listservs, professional associations, friends, etc. Have your event announced in subject-related classes.
The is the university's central, comprehensive events calendar. The calendar informs and connects the campus community with the wide array of events offered at LR.
Marketing and Communications has assembled the following information and resources to assist you in planning and promoting your events.
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Positioning Statement
About Ï㽶´«Ã½
Founded in 1891, Ï㽶´«Ã½ is a co-educational, private liberal arts institution with more than 55 undergraduate degree programs and over 20 graduate degree programs. LR enrolls more than 2,200 undergraduate and graduate students and has had 11 consecutive years of enrollment growth. LR’s main campus is in Hickory, North Carolina, where both undergraduate and graduate degrees are offered. The University also offers graduate degree programs on its campuses in Asheville, North Carolina, and Columbia, South Carolina. The Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary is also in Columbia. LR is affiliated with the North Carolina Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and welcomes students from all religious backgrounds. The website is .
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Publications
- Profile Magazine
Lenoir-Rhyne's alumni magazine and is produced three times a year. Our spring and fall issues are in print and digital formats, while the summer issue is entirely online. The digital version of the magazine is an interactive storytelling experience that combines all the benefits of the print edition while blending text, photography, and video in a beautifully designed and responsive format. - Southern Bulletin
A publication for friends of Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary of Ï㽶´«Ã½. Two issues are produced each year.
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News & Events
![View of entrance to campus and university sign](/sites/default/files/styles/290x218/public/2024-09/lru-entrance_0.jpg?itok=_MBk2ik1)
The Ï㽶´«Ã½ board of trustees announced today the formation of a presidential search committee to lead the search for the 13th president of Lenoir-Rhyne.
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Poet, artist and professor Laura Hope-Gill, MFA, studies and shares the healing potential of storytelling here and abroad, opening up a new approach to healthcare for her students.
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