Albertus Magnus College Earns Telly Award for Seventh Straight Year

Industry-wide Honor Reflects Excellence and Originality

New Haven, Conn., May 22, 2025 – Call it Lucky Seven. For the seventh year, The Telly Awards recognized Albertus Magnus College. This communications industry-wide organization reflects the standard of video excellence for pushing the boundaries of creativity beyond the frame.

Albertus earned a Silver Award for “When GenZ Takes Over the VP for Enrollment’s Script” this year in the Craft-Viral Trend category at the 46th annual celebration. Albertus utilized the expertise of professional staff and student workers to visualize the College’s unique way of an almost 100-year-old institution being relevant to today’s tech-savvy students.

The winning content was created by Digital Content Producer Sam Tyrrel, MBA ’25, and Social Media Intern Emma DeVico, ’25, with the good-humored collaboration of Vice President for Enrollment Management Brian Fernandes.

“The level of creativity on this team is nothing short of stunning,” said Vice President for Marketing and Community Relations Andrea Kovacs. “The Albertus Marketing, Communications, and Web team works tirelessly to share inspiring stories across a wide variety of platforms. I'm very proud of their work. I'm also very grateful to my colleague, Brian Fernandes, for being such a good sport on this project. His deadpan delivery was beyond the pale and was the key to our success in this project.”

About Albertus Magnus College

Albertus Magnus College, founded in 1925, is a coeducational Catholic College in the Dominican tradition. As New England's most diverse Catholic College, Albertus' values- and liberal arts-based education is recognized by external rankings such as US News & World Report, Money Magazine, and The Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education, and has been named a Top 10 Military Friendly School. For eight consecutive years, graduating classes at Albertus have achieved post-graduate employment and graduate school success at a rate of at least 95%. The College has an enrollment of approximately 1,300 students across its traditional undergraduate, accelerated adult undergraduate, and 12 graduate programs. Proud to enroll a student body where more than half of its students come from minority backgrounds with nearly the same percentage of undergraduates receiving Federal Pell Grants and being first generation college goers, Albertus is known for its innovative curricular offerings, recently launching new Bachelor's degree programs in Nursing, General Health Sciences, Interdisciplinary Studies, Public Health, and Supply Chain Management; among its graduate programs is the State of Connecticut's only Master of Arts in Art Therapy and Counseling program. Just two years from its historic 100 th Anniversary Year, the College is implementing its Albertus 2025: Lighting the Way to a Second Century strategic plan, which articulates an inspiring, bold vision to "be a destination liberal arts-based college, distinguished in its interdisciplinary and experiential approach to education, rooted in Dominican values, that prepares students for lifelong civic engagement and success." To learn more, please visit albertus.edu.