Mississippi State University's design for its site on the World Wide Web is among top winners in regional competition for a professional education advancement organization.
The site, designed by a team led by assistant University Relations director Bennet George, won second place in annual competition sponsored by District III of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education.
Broward Community College of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., was the first-place winner.
Mississippi State's World Wide Web site can be accessed at http://www.msstate.edu/. "This site is an integral part of the university's communication efforts and has come to play an important role in student recruitment, alumni relations, and internal communications, as well as in instruction, research, and public service," said Joe Farris, assistant to the president and director of University Relations.
He said an online admissions form generates approximately 25 student applications each week and that the university receives about 100 general information inquiries per week from the site.
More than 1,000 Mississippi State alumni have used an online form to update information about themselves, and the university has established an electronic-mail directory for alumni in recent months. Visitors to the site also can access information about two prominent alumni, novelist John Grisham and retired Congressman G.V. "Sonny" Montgomery.
Farris said that a calendar of coming events and the online version of the university's faculty-staff newsletter are heavily used.
CASE District III includes more than 500 schools, colleges and universities in the Southeastern United States.