Emerging Adviser (Honor Roll) Adviser Award
This award is presented to a CMA member with fewer than five years’ experience in college media advising and has distinguished service in a particular area and is an adviser at the time of the nomination.
Beginning in 2023, the Honor Roll Adviser Award was renamed the Emerging Adviser Award. The Emerging Adviser Award does not categorize by medium, only by four-year and two-year colleges and universities. Multiple advisers can be recognized within these categories; the number of advisers recognized each year is determined by the CMA Awards Committee.
Four-Year Newspaper Adviser
- 2021: Peg Achterman, Seattle Pacific University
- 2021: Emily Burch Harris, North Carolina A&T State University
- 2021: Julie Lewis, University of Central Missouri
- 2020: Kimberly Meltzer, Marymount University
- 2019: Sandra Combs, Arkansas State University
- 2019: Amy DeVault, Wichita State University
- 2018: Susan Novak, SUNY Potsdam
- 2018: Theta Pavis, New Jersey City University
- 2017: Michele Day, Northern Kentucky University
- 2017: Adam Maksl, Indiana University Southeast
- 2017: Seth Prince, University of Oklahoma
- 2016: Jim Rodenbush, Colorado State University
- 2015: Jim Burns, Occidental College
- 2014: Loni Smith McKown, Butler University
- 2014: Jody Biehl, University of Buffalo
- 2013: Rachel Wedding McClelland, Indiana State University
- 2012: Judy Gibbs Robinson, University of Oklahoma
- 2011: Lola Burnham, Eastern Illinois University
- 2010: Colin Donohue, Elon University
- 2009: Ruth Witmer, Indiana University
- 2008: Kelly Furnas, Virginia Tech
- 2007: Vince Filak, Ball State University
- 2007: Hillary Warren, Otterbein College
- 2005: Rey Rosales, Lewis University
- 2004: Rick Stewart, Barton College
- 2002: Nancy Brown, Marymount College
- 2001: Mary Jennings, University of North Alabama
- 2000: Ruthe Thompson, Southwest State University
- 1998: Sally Turner, Emporia State University
- 1996: Jennifer F. Wood, Santa Clara University
- 1995: Jack D. Willis, University of Oklahoma
- 1994: Paul Heaton, Ithaca College
- 1993: Lloyd Goodman, University of West Florida
- 1992: Ron Hollander, Montclair State College
- 1989: Chris Carroll, Tulane University (LA)
- 1987: Wilda K. Kaylor, Seton Hill College
- 1986: John Michael Haynes, Texas Tech University
- 1985: O’Ryan Rickard, Western Michigan University
- 1984: Sandra Dickson, University of West Florida
- 1984: Denise Andres, University of California at Los Angeles
- 1982: Richard Wells, University of North Texas
Two-Year Newspaper Adviser
- 2021: Marcie Young Cancio, Salt Lake Community College
- 2020: Judy McGovern, Washtenaw Community College
- 2018: Matthew Kochis, Mercer County Community College
- 2016: Jenna Duncan, Glendale Community College
- 2015: Kelli Bloomquist, Iowa Central Community College
- 2012: Shannon Philpott, St. Louis Community College-Meramec
- 2010: Laura Krantz, Tyler Junior College
- 2004: Ann Christiansen-Bullers, Johnson County Community College
- 1998: Jack Nist, North Hennepin Community College
- 1994: Keisha L. McCray, DeKalb College
- 1993: Stacy Friend Sparks, Dodge City Community College
- 1992: Craig Weincek, Frederick Community College
- 1988: Allan Weintraub, Tulsa Junior College
- 1986: Marianne Mueller, Sinclair Community College
Four-Year Yearbook Adviser
- 2019: Tommy Kopetskie, Elon University
- 2018: Katelyn Ratvasky, Westminster College
- 2008: Lori Brooks, University of Oklahoma
- 2007: Molly Pavlechko, Bucknell University
- 2004: Nicole Boudreaux, Nicholls State University
- 1999: Mary Jennings, University of North Alabama
- 1994: Richard Northcutt, Midland Lutheran College
- 1993: Kent Best, Texas Tech University
- 1992: Rebecca Rayburn, Florida State University
- 1989: Ann Thorne, Missouri Western State College
- 1988: Kathy Clancy, University of Alabama
- 1987: Laura Widmer, Northwest Missouri State University
Two-Year Yearbook Adviser
Four-Year Magazine Adviser
- 2021: Sam Oldenburg, Western Kentucky University
- 2019: Shelley Blundell, Youngstown State University
- 2015: Mike Wagner, Otterbein University
- 1995: Phebe Davidson, University of South Carolina-Aiken
- 1991: Patricia Place, University of Alabama at Birmingham
- 1990: Wayne Maikranz, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- 1989: Richard Daigle, Emory University
- 1988: Hank Nuwer, Ball State University
Two-Year Magazine Adviser
- 2003: Marta Magellan, Miami-Dade Community College
Four-Year Business Adviser
Two-Year Business Adviser
Four-Year Broadcast Adviser
- 2020: David Shabazz, Kentucky State University
- 2016: Steven Hames, Berry College
- 2011: Jamie Lynn Gilbert, North Carolina State University
- 2010: Janice Windborne, Otterbein University
- 1991: Chris Carroll, Tulane University
Two-Year Broadcast Adviser
Four-Year Multimedia Adviser
- 2014: Adelle Crowe, American University
- 2013: Allison Dyche, Appalachian State University
- 2011: Jessica Clary, Savannah College of Art and Design
- 2007: Denise Brown, Morgan State University
- 2000: Jay Hartwell, University of Hawaii
- 1999: Ralph Braseth, University of Mississippi
- 1998: Pam Bumstead, Pittsburg State University
- 1997: Amy Satterfield Gades, Colorado State University
- 1992: Thomas Winski, Monmouth College
- 1991: Michael E. Agin, University of Kentucky
Two-Year Multimedia Adviser