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The Office of Communications and Marketing leads Â鶹ŮÀÉ’s 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 Â鶹ŮÀÉ’s 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 Â鶹ŮÀÉ.
  • Brand strategy and identity: Steward Â鶹ŮÀÉ’s 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 Â鶹ŮÀÉ’s public website, digital content strategy, user experience, accessibility, analytics, and related governance.
  • Social media: Manage Â鶹ŮÀÉ’s flagship social channels and guide campus partners in effective, brand-aligned social media use.
  • Media relations: Connect Skidmore 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 Â鶹ŮÀÉ 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 Â鶹ŮÀÉ’s goals.
Â鶹ŮÀÉ website homepage with the large headline “Creative Thought Mattersâ€

The new Â鶹ŮÀÉ.edu

A comprehensive redesign of the College’s digital front door, improving user experience, accessibility, performance, and brand alignment.
Three students walking along a tree-lined campus path beneath green and yellow Â鶹ŮÀÉ banners reading “Creative Thought Matters†and “Curiosity.â€

A campus, branded

A coordinated banner system that brings strategic messaging and brand standards into the campus environment, reinforcing Â鶹ŮÀÉ’s identity across key spaces.
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Cover of Â鶹ŮÀÉ’s Fall 2025 SCOPE magazine featuring an alumnus in mountaineering gear kneeling on a snowy peak and holding a Â鶹ŮÀÉ Baseball banner, with the headline “On Top of the World.â€

Scope Magazine

Â鶹ŮÀÉ’s flagship publication, connecting alumni, families, and friends of the College with the people, ideas, and priorities shaping Â鶹ŮÀÉ’s future.
Â鶹ŮÀÉ hockey player on the ice in his uniform.

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 Â鶹ŮÀÉ’s academics, community, outcomes, and sense of place.
Student smiles in a pose while wearing a Â鶹ŮÀÉ branded sweatshirt or hat.

Wear the brand

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

For the scroll

Platform-specific video and social content that helps audiences experience Â鶹ŮÀÉ’s 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 Skidmore

Student video profiles that capture the range of passions and possibilities that define the Â鶹ŮÀÉ 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 Â鶹ŮÀÉ faculty, students, and alumni engage emerging technologies through creativity, inquiry, and critical thinking.
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Awards

OCM’s 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, 2023–24
    Winner, Storytelling — Scope Magazine: Forging Â鶹ŮÀÉ’s Second Century
  • Education Digital Marketing Awards, 2024
    Bronze, TikTok Campaign — Creative Thought Matters: Â鶹ŮÀÉ’s TikTok Success
    Bronze, Digital Advertising — Real Results: Â鶹ŮÀÉ’s Reddit Advertising
  • College Sports Communicators, 2024
    30 Under 30 — Kyle Lancto

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