MONMOUTH, Ill. — Tiffany Cole, a Monmouth College alumna and a member of its college relations staff, was recently named a winner of a prestigious award from Pi Beta Phi, the national women’s fraternity founded at Monmouth.

Cole received one of the organization’s Carolyn Helman Lichtenberg 2002 Crest Awards. First presented in 1991, the award honors a former president and recognizes distinguished alumnae who exhibit excellence and outstanding leadership in their careers or volunteer service to their communities.

Cole, who is director of advancement for alumni programs/planned and major gifts at Monmouth College, has been involved in numerous civic, state and national organizations, often in leadership roles. Those organizations include the Monmouth Area Chamber of Commerce, the Warren County Prime Beef Festival Committee, the Monmouth Noon Lions Club, the Junior Women’s Club, the Warren County United Way, the Monmouth Early Learning Center, the Monmouth Alumnae Club and the City of Monmouth Mayoral Search Conference.

A 1989 Monmouth College graduate, Cole earned her MBA from Western Illinois University. She previously worked as a trust and loan review officer at the National Bank of Monmouth.

She is a graduate of Illinois Partners in Policy Making Program, for which she was one of 30 participants chosen from a statewide pool of applicants. She is also one of 30 in the nation who was selected to serve on the National Peer Review Team, a Washington, D.C.-based committee, which reviews each state’s university affiliated program on an ongoing basis.

For her outstanding leadership in the community, Illinois Lieutenant Governor Corrine Wood gave Cole the Illinois Woman of Achievement Award in 2001.

“Tiffany Cole is a gracious, generous and caring person, who has a smile and a good word for anyone,” said her nominating letter. “How Tiffany manages to do everything she does so well, so pleasantly and so efficiently is a mystery, but she does it.”

Cole lives in Monmouth with her husband, Jim, and two children.