• Chapter of Distinction Awards
• Educator of the Year
• Hall of Fame
  • Hall of Fame Honorees
    • Philip R. Forrest Jr.
    • Rex Kelly
    • Sherry Harlow, APR
    • William “Bill” Michelet, APR, Fellow PRSA
    • William E. “Bud” Kirkpatrick
    • Yvonne McGehee Sorge, APR
• Lantern Awards
• Past SPRF Presidents
• Professional Achievement Award
• Professional Achievement Guidelines
• Southern Public Relations Hall of Fame
• SPRF Senior Practitioners

Educator of the Year

Initiated in 2008, each year SPRF recognizes outstanding professional educator members through its Educator of the Year award.  Each state organization (ECPRO, PRAL, PRAM, PRCA) is invited to nominate one outstanding public relations educator for the SPRF Educator of the Year Award.  The recipient of this award is announced at the SPRF annual conference.   

SPRF established this award to recognize an educator who has taught public relations or a closely-related discipline and who has demonstrated a commitment to advance the profession of public relations.

Melissa “Missy” LaBorde, APR, is the 2011 award recipient. She is an assistant professor of communications studies at Louisiana State University in Alexandria. LaBorde was nominated for the award by PRAL. Other nominees included John Forde, APR, Fellow PRSA, of PRAM, Teri Henley, MBA, of PRCA, and Randall Bobbitt, PhD, APR, of ECPRO.

Past Educator of the Year Recipients:

• 2010 – Lisa Darnell, APR, University of North Alabama – PRCA
• 2009 – Robin Street, APR, University of Mississippi – PRAM
• 2008 – Dr. Laura Walton, APR, Mississippi State University – PRAM