UTC Communication Department

Applications are now open for 2026–2027 Communication Department scholarships.
✅ One application
✅ Multiple awards
✅ Open to COMM majors (especially juniors and seniors)
📎 Apply here: Communication Department Scholarship Application (https://forms.cloud.microsoft/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=2RNYUX1x3UWeypqhnAnW-WnBUsjp5ahLtM6OKTDPWM5UQ05LN0Q0Mk9OWlgzUkg1WlNZUzhTNTI2Vy4u) – Fill out form
📅 Deadline: Friday, June 19
Don’t miss this opportunity to support your academic and professional goals.

UTC student media made a great showing at the Golden Press Awards on Wednesday evening in Knoxville.

Megan Cooper won first place in podcasting; Sydney Banks won first in Sports Reporting; Clara Paulson won first in Photojournalism; and Delaney Holman, Ryan Conley, Malcolm Key, and Kayelyn McCaslin won second as a team in best news story with a story on Engel Stadium and Chattanooga baseball.

Thanks to the East Tennessee Chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists for hosting this event, and also thanks to the San Diego SPJ chapter for judging the entries and their glowing comments on the work of our student journalists!

Congrats to all our newest Communication alumni and all the 2026 graduates at UTC! We are all so proud of you and wish you all the best in the next chapter! Go Mocs!

Congratulations to all the winners at tonight’s Comm Department Awards Night. We are so proud of all that you’ve accomplished and excited for what comes next!

It is a very exciting day for student media at UTC, with NASCAR visiting campus! Cup driver Austin Cindric and Talladega Superspeedway region President Josh Harris were in town to promote the upcoming Jack Links 500.

Austin and Josh were interviewed by University Echo Sports Editor Zoie Denton with the help of the the Mocs News student broadcast team.

The full video will be up soon on Mocs News, and read Zoie’s Echo story online in the coming days.