The Wheaton Record won four awards at the Illinois College Press Association’s annual conference on Feb. 16 and 17. The awards contest is open to work published between November 2022 and November 2023. The Record competes in division D, which consists of publications at colleges with less than 3,000 students.
Anna Mares, sophomore Spanish and international relations major, was recognized twice, including a second-place award in the news story category for her coverage of Wheaton College’s historical race review in October. She and Noelle Worley, junior communications and international relations major, received third place in the feature story category for a co-written story on one student’s shortened college experience due to rising tuition costs.
“Your piece highlights something that so many students at liberal arts colleges face — financial difficulty,” wrote the judges of Mares and Worley’s feature piece.
Worley, one of the Record’s two news editors, also received an honorable mention in the news Story category for her reporting on the college’s new student enrollment in September.
Helen Huiskes, senior English writing major and co-editor-in-chief, won second place in the in-depth reporting category for her yearlong series on the budget cuts that caused faculty layoffs in fall 2022. Of the most recent story, the judges praised the incorporation of “both data and human anecdotes from professors impacted by the cuts,” adding that the story captured the anxious mood of the campus about the layoffs.
This is the second year in a row that the Record has been recognized by the ICPA judges. In February 2023, the Record won two first-place awards in diversity, equity and inclusion reporting and feature story and third place in news story. Before that, the last ICPA wins for the Record were in 2017.
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