UNC Asheville Marketing Team Earns Gold Award for Website Redesign

The University of North Carolina Asheville has been recognized with a 2026 Gold Level Award in the Website Redesign category of the dotCOMM Awards for its project, UNC Asheville Website Migration and Redesign: Creating a Unified Digital Experience.

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — August 19, 2026 — The University of North Carolina Asheville has been recognized with a 2026 Gold Level Award in the Website Redesign category of the dotCOMM Awards for its project, UNC Asheville Website Migration and Redesign: Creating a Unified Digital Experience.

The award recognizes the Communication & Marketing team’s work to redesign and migrate the University’s website to create a more unified and streamlined digital experience for students, faculty, staff, alumni, and other audiences.

The award-winning project consolidated approximately 6,000 pages across three competing websites and more than 80 department subdomains into a single, unified home at unca.edu.

The redesign also introduced new ways to tell the UNC Asheville story, including career pathway pages connecting majors to outcomes, expanded showcases of experiential learning opportunities, and student success stories highlighting real student experiences.

“This redesign has been years in the making, and I am so proud of the team effort that went into showing what UNC Asheville is all about,” said David Bradham, UNC Asheville web designer.  “We gathered input from faculty, staff, students, and the entire Bulldog community. Winning gold illustrates all the hard work and talent that went into this project.”

The dotCOMM Awards recognize excellence in web creativity and digital communication. The international competition honors outstanding work in website development, digital marketing, social media, video, advertising, and other forms of digital media.

The Gold Level Award adds to a growing list of national and regional honors recognizing the creative, strategic, and collaborative work of UNC Asheville’s Communication & Marketing team.

About UNC Asheville

UNC Asheville is North Carolina’s public liberal arts and sciences university of the future, marked by technology-driven solutions, hands-on learning, a  student-centered focus and career and professional readiness. With  award-winning faculty, small class sizes, and 60+ academic programs, including  a dual degree in Engineering/Mechatronics with NC State, the University provides free tuition and fees through its Access Asheville program as well as merit scholarships to all first-year students. In the US News & World Report 2026  edition of Best Colleges, UNC Asheville is ranked No. #10 in Top Public  Schools, and No. #12 in Princeton Review’s 2026 Top 50 Guide to Green Colleges.  Known as the Bulldogs, UNC Asheville student-athletes compete in 16  NCAA Division I Teams in the Big South Conference. For more information, please  visit: unca.edu.