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Tennessee Communication Association
2025 Conference
Friday, September 19 – Saturday, September 20, 2025
Motlow State Community College
Smyrna, Tennessee
“Come Together: Colleagues, Classrooms, and Communities”
The theme for the 2025 conference is focused on the connections an individual makes in multiple aspects of his/her/their life. This theme is designed to explore how communication has evolved and has been utilized within classroom assignments and activities, community involvement, and how we as a society, navigate major historical events. Communication areas to consider might include student support and accommodation, generational perspectives, culture, pop culture, technological advancements, etc. We encourage papers, panels, and GIFTS submissions surrounding the theme.
Please submit to a paper, panel, or GIFTS proposal at the link below.
The deadline to submit proposals is Monday, June 30, 2025.
We seek GIFTS proposals that relate to the basic communication course (i.e. Fundamentals of Communication, Public Speaking, Introduction to Communication).
All GIFTS ideas must :
- Be original to the presenter Not duplicate any other previously published work, including your own previously published work
2. Have been implemented in the classroom
3. Presenters should bring printed handouts with an explanation of the GIFTS activity to the conference/presentation.
4. The GIFTS idea should be able to be explained in 8 minutes or less.
11th Annual TCA Student Short Film Contest and Showcase
Please enter your students’ films in the Tennessee Communication Association’s Short Film Contest and Showcase. Entries are due by Monday, June 30, 2025.
The categories are:
- Commercials and PSAs that are 30 – 60-seconds
- Documentaries that are 10-minutes or less
- Short films that are 10-minutes or less
Submit the YouTube Links and Microsoft Word document with the information below for the 2025 TCA Short Film Contest.
Category
Title of Submission
School
Submitted By
Phone Number
Brief Synopsis
YouTube Link
Submit the information in a Microsoft Word document and email at tennesseecommassociation@gmai.com by Monday, June 30, 2025.
It is free to enter students into Student Film Contest and Showcase.
The top films will be put into a 1.5-hour showcase at the conference on Friday evening.
Judges rate the entries, and the top entries will be in the showcase and the winners will be the top rated per category. All directors of the films chosen to be in the showcase will be given a Selected for Screening certificate.
The director of the winning film in each category will be given a certificate and a cash reward. After the showcase, the audience will vote for their favorite film, and the winner will be given the Audience Favorite certificate and cash award.
If you have questions, please contact Dr. Tracy Nichols by email at nicholst@apsu.edu.
Student Scholarship
TCA prides itself for its support of student scholarship. Please pass this invitation along to your students. Remember there are top student paper awards for undergraduate and graduate students. Please notate all student submissions as Undergraduate or Graduate student on the cover page.
Please upload student paper(s) here: https://forms.gle/wwfmCtcXhNg9d4AV9
You will need to sign in with a Google account to upload the student paper(s).
For additional information about the 2025 TCA Conference, please contact:
Bambi Pelham Dr. Shaq Marsh
TCA President-Elect TCA Executive Director
Walters State Community College Pellissippi State Community College Bambi.Pelham@ws.edu somarsh@pstcc.edu
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