The Georgia College Forensics Team competed at the University of Alabama this weekend in Tuscaloosa, taking home their second tournament win in a row. Competing alongside his teammates Virginia Copeland, Joshua Jones, Madeline Johnson and Taryn Stanley, Mason Nixon won Tournament Champion in novice IPDA debate. Nixon took home first place Top Speaker Award and second Place in the novice IPDA tournament. Copeland, also on a streak, broke into the quarterfinals. Jones and Stanley competed...
The Georgia College Forensics Team runs it back, taking home their second tournament win this fall at the University of Alabama this weekend in Tuscaloosa. Competing alongside his teammates Virginia Copeland, Joshua Jones, Madeline Johnson, and Taryn Stanley, Mason Nixon won Tournament Champion in novice IPDA debate. He took home 1st Place Top Speaker Award as well as 2nd Place in the tournament. Copeland broke into the quarterfinals in novice IPDA. The Georgia College Forensics Team...
Dr. Kerry Neville, interim chair of the Department of Communication at Georgia College, has received a 2026 Fulbright Alumni award to support a contemplative walking residency at Glenstal Abbey in County Limerick, Ireland. A 2018 Fulbright U.S. Scholar, Neville is one of 30 Fulbright alumni selected for additional project funding in 2026 in celebration of the Fulbright Program’s 80th anniversary. Neville’s experience with her 2018 Fulbright at the University of Limerick (UL) was pivotal. “My...
The Georgia College Forensics Team competed in their first two tournaments of the season this weekend at the inaugural Southeast Squabble hosted by Newberry College. Against programs including Tennessee Tech University, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Newberry College, and the University of Florida, the team won the debate tournament, took home two first-place trophies for the tournament's speaking events, and won third place in overall points at the tournament with just five competitors...
Does your department or office need assistance with communication, promotion or publicity? A Mass Comm practicum student could help!Students in MSCM 2932 can assist on-campus departments and offices with a range of communication projects including graphic design, short-form videography, digital media management including website content and social media channels, copywriting for blogs and press releases and much more. (Please remember that communication products must be approved by...
By Margaret Schell Jailey Ferrer Negron, a senior mass communication major at Georgia College & State University, is a public affairs intern at Moody Air Force Base in Valdosta, Georgia. Since mid-May, she’s been taking pictures and video in the field, writing press releases and stories and networking. Negron chose to intern in public affairs because of her interest in government work. Her father served in the U.S. Air Force for 20 years and her fiancé works at the base. “I wanted...
By Gil Pound Georgia’s already booming tourism industry is set to receive a jolt over the next month with Atlanta serving as a host city for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. The international soccer tournament is expected to bring some 520,000 visitors and an estimated $500 million in economic impact to the state when eight matches, including a semifinal, are played inside Mercedes-Benz Stadium from June 15 to July 15. The over half a million visitors will be in good hands with many Georgia...
Does your department or office need assistance with communication, promotion or publicity? A Mass Comm practicum student could help!Students in MSCM 2932 can assist on-campus departments and offices with a range of communication projects including graphic design, short-form videography, digital media management including website content and social media channels, copywriting for blogs and press releases and much more. (Please remember that communication products must be approved by...
By Ian Wesselhoff Georgia College & State University mass communication students organized a three-week battery recycling competition, culminating on Earth Day, across all five public Baldwin County K-8 schools. This is the second iteration of the “Battery Hero” project that Georgia College seniors debuted at Midway Hills Academy last semester. This semester, a new group of 24 students in a public relations planning class helped add four more schools: Lakeview Primary, Lakeview Academy,...
By Ian Wesselhoff The Department of Communication at Georgia College & State University is enjoying a successful spring, with awards and recognition pouring in for film, speech and debate, student research papers and more. Much of that success was found at the 2026 Georgia Communication Association (GCA) Conference, held Feb. 26-28 at Mercer University. GCSU was named Student Involvement Champion, and Jack McKinney, senior rhetoric major, won Top Student Paper for “The Nation Wears...
