Part 1. Benefits to Higher Education
Chapter 1. Communication Centers and Retention in Higher Education:
Is There a Link?
Chapter 2. Speaking Our Minds: Communication Centers and Critical
Thinking
Chapter 3. Communication Centers and Liberal Arts Education:
Problems and Possibilities Associated with Cross-Disciplinary
Engagements
Chapter 4. The Communication Center: A Critical Site of
Intervention for Student Empowerment
Chapter 5. The Role Becomes Them: Examining Communication Center
Alumni Experiences
Part 2. Challenges to Today's Centers
Chapter 6. Ethics and the Communication Center: Chameleon or
Tortoise?
Chapter 7. The Blind Leading the Blind? An Ethnographic Heuristic
for Communication Centers
Chapter 8. Learning to Tell What You Know: A Communication
Intervention for Biology Students
Chapter 9. Using Theory and Research to Increase Student Use of
Communication Center Services
Chapter 10. Focusing on Faculty: The Importance of Faculty Support
to Communication Center Success
Part 3. Alternative Models for Communication Centers
Chapter 11. Communication Center Ethos: Remediating Space,
Encouraging Collaboration
Chapter 12. The Combined Centers Approach: How Speaking and Writing
Centers Can Work Together
Chapter 13. Course Management Systems: Creating Alternative Avenues
for Student Access of Communication Centers
Chapter 14. Virtual Communication Centers: A Resource for Building
Oral Competency
Chapter 15. The Implementation of Computer-Mediated Communication
in Communication Centers
Part 4. New Directions in Consultant Training
Chapter 16. Technology Tutoring: Communication Centers Take the
Lead
Chapter 17. Using Empathetic Listening to Build Client
Relationships at the Center
Chapter 18. Best Practices in Communication Center Training and
Training Assessment
Esther Lee Yook is Speaking Center Director and faculty of
communication at the University of Mary Washington.
Wendy Atkins-Sayre is assistant professor of communication studies
and Speaking Center Director at the University of Southern
Mississippi.
“Publication of findings pointing to the value of communication
centers and speaking-intensive across-the-curriculum programs in
higher education has, until now, failed to keep pace with the
success of these endeavors. Professors Yook and Atkins-Sayre have
assembled the finest minds and energies in this compilation to
demonstrate the long-term and wide-ranging advantages available to
schools that have embraced such learning enhancements. The wisdom
shared in each of these essays reflects decades of experience,
relentless testing of theory and revising practices to make
possible the advancement of these initiatives so future
practitioners will be better equipped to meet the particular needs
of the institutions they serve. As enriching and long-overdue as
this scholarship may be, the voices behind it would surely agree,
that the difference revealed by students who have participated in
these programs will be the finest legacy of the pioneering
contributors to this essential text.”
*Linda Hobgood, University of Richmond*
“This volume offers a variety of interesting ideas that point to
the power and promise of communication centers as they support
communication across the curriculum. Directors and administrators
will benefit from such discussions as how such centers enhance
critical thinking, ways of conceptualizing the tutorial process,
and the use of computer-mediated communication for virtual
tutorials.”
*Kathleen J. Turner*
"The editors and contributors are prescient in identifying the need
for this compendium of valuable essays. This edited volume on
communication centers is a must-read for any faculty member or
administrator involved in or considering a center. When we
developed our center in the early nineties at the University of
Colorado, we would have benefited immensely from access to such
useful information."
*Sherwyn Morreale, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs*
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