MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga., April 13 -- Georgia College & State University issued the following news release:

By Ian Wesselhoff

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he 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 Prada: A Transnational Rhetorical and Ideological Critique of the 2025 Met Gala Through a Banal Nationalistic Framework." As an undergraduate student, McKin...