The Speaking Center offers in-person oral communication tutoring sessions and strategic communications workshops, centralizing communication support for the campus community located within the Colket Center. We connect CC students with a network of trained peers who can support their learning in communication. We believe that communication is formative and foundational to human identities, relationships, and communities. Moreover, ethical and strategically effective communication can be the means of critiquing, constructing, and transforming identities, relationships, and communities.

We engage in communication scholarship in the form of research, teaching, and service that: 

• Integrates dialogue and other approaches to communication as the foundation for scholarly inquiry and application to the world.
• Cultivates diversity and respect for differences.
• Promotes change that leads to more democratic, just, and peaceful relationships and communities.
• Engages creative partnerships of faculty, students, and other stakeholders in addressing contemporary challenges and opportunities for improving communication.