Magnolia’s Dan McConnell, founding advisory-board member and longtime instructor in the University of Washington’s Public Relations and Strategic Communications Certificate Program, has been recognized with the UW’s highest award for teaching.
At UW’s Professional and Continuing Education awards ceremony, McConnell received the Teaching Excellence Award for his skills and commitment as a teacher from the business community.
McConnell was called into service when the state cut funding of the school’s communications department. He helped to develop the yearlong curriculum that touches all aspects of the public relations and strategic communications profession. He has taught every course in the program over the years and has been integrally involved in keeping the courses current.
Presently, he is president and CEO of DMCPR, specializing in the development of effective communications strategies, solutions to difficult crisis-communications problems and experienced storytelling for a small group of clients spread all over the world.
In 2006, he received the Public Relations Society of America’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
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