GCA Awards
2025 – The University of West Georgia
Top Paper – Jasmine Hope Jackson; 1964 Marietta Daily Journal Coverage of Marietta High School Integration
Top Presentation – Meredith Ginn & Emily Holler; Reflections on the First Semester or Core IMPACTS Implementation
Top Student Paper – Sara Fletcher Rivera; Grave of the Fireflies: An Elegiac Masterpiece
Top Student Presentation – Lauren Lane & Davia Lassiter; Twice as Good: Black Women and the 2024 Election
Most Engaged Institution – Georgia State University
Student Involvement Champion – Mercer University
2024 – Piedmont University
Top Paper – Philip Aust & Alex Bircik; The Connection between Communication, Music, and the Individual: A Business Communication Application
Top Presentation – Matthew Terrell; Improv Exercises in Communication Education – From Human Communication to Mass Media
Top Student Paper – Davia Rose Lassiter; Shattering the Concrete Ceiling: The Brown Table Talk Podcast
Top Student Presentation – Q. McElroy; Boss Babe: A New Stereotypical Archetype for Depicting African-American Women in TV and Other Mass Media
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2027 – Georgia Highlands College (tentative)
2026 – Mercer University (planned)
2025 – The University of West Georgia
2024 – Piedmont University
2023 – August University
2022 – Virtual event
2021 – Virtual event
2020 – Georgia Highlands College
2019 – Clayton State University
2018 – Columbus State University
2017 – Middle Georgia State University (Macon)
2016 – Georgia College and State University
2015 – Georgia Southern University
2014 – Georgia State University
2013 – Dalton State College
2012 – Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College
2011 – Brenau University
2010 – Georgia Southern University
2009 – West Georgia College & State University
2008 – Augusta State University
2007 – Gainesville State College
2006 – Toccoa Falls College
2005 – Georgia College and State University
2004 – Clayton State University
2003 – Georgia Perimeter College
2002 – Valdosta State University
2001 – University of Georgia
2000 – Augusta State University
1999 – Valdosta State University
1998 – Kennesaw State University
1997 – West Georgia College
1996 – Columbus State College
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