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Brammer University of Chicago  \nBuilding partnerships with academic programs and campus divisions can advance a communication center’s goal of enhancing students’ communication competencies while also expanding the reach and visibility of the center. This paper explicates a process for establishing and executing such collaboration effectively--from advocating for the center’s integration in student life to developing and executing pilot projects that address recognized communication needs on campus. Central to this process were undergraduate students who conducted research, designed communication modules, and facilitated difficult conversations. New student orientation proved to be a fruitful campus site for communication center student consultants to support and enhance their peers’ public speaking, interpersonal, and small group communication skills.  \nKeywords: Collaboration, Advocacy, Integration, Co-curricular Activities  \nIntroduction  \nBuilding partnerships with academic programs and campus divisions can advance a communication center’s goal of enhancing students’ communication competencies while also expanding the reach and visibility of the center. Our center’s pilot collaborations with the student life division evidences the value of integrating communication theory and practice in other realms of student campus experience. In this paper, we detail our pilot projects and discuss the process for building a student life partnership at a private, liberal arts college. The collaboration entailed a summer of researching and developing pilot communication modules for student life that were deployed in the fall of 2017. Central to this process were undergraduate students: they conducted the research, participated in design of the plan, and trained their student peers to support implementation. The paper discusses our process of developing projects, the benefits of co-curricular collaboration for engaging the campus community, and  \nstrategies for building fruitful campus partnerships.  \nTurner and Sheckels (2015) have articulated the value of collaboration and cross-disciplinarity in advancing the pedagogical mission of a communication center as well as publicizing its value to the wider campus community. Common and effective strategies for advancing a center’s objectives include peer tutoring and supporting faculty in their development and evaluation of oral communication assignments. In addition, some centers facilitate direct integration into courses by embedding center staff who provide individual project consultation or conductoral communication workshops (McCall, Ellis, & Murphy, 2017; Fairchild & Carpenter, 2015) .  \nEstablishing a center as a campus resource is not without challenges. Communication support via a single assignment or a specific course often lacks the breadth or depth of curricular intervention to which many centers aspire.  \nAs Corey Lieberman (2012) notes, a fundamental challenge for communication centers is how they can reach across disciplines and campuses to ensure that all students access and value a rhetorically and theoretically grounded communication experience--one that views oral communication as process, not product. Further, centers often face misconceptions about the relevance and importance of communication, which may prevent students and faculty from seeking the resources that centers have to offer. These include:  \nstudents viewing oral communication as irrelevant; students viewing communication as outside the purview of their own major; and/or the campus community viewing communication only as a skill, not a liberal art. Attending to these attitudes may require communication centers to more proactively demonstrate the centrality of communication to students’ lives and future work, particularly for students outside the fine arts and humanities (Lieberman, 2012) .  \nThus, ","cbCaifoAYP630Tg8","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaifoAYP630Tg8","pdf",67170,"English","# Introduction\n## Advocacy\n## Needs Assessment\n## Capitalizing on Existing Campus Programming\n## Evaluation","[{\"question\":\"What goal does the paper pursue regarding communication centers?\",\"answer\":\"It shows how partnerships can advance a communication center’s aim of enhancing students’ communication competencies while expanding the center’s reach and visibility on campus.\"},{\"question\":\"How were the pilot communication modules developed and implemented?\",\"answer\":\"Undergraduate students conducted research, participated in planning and design, and trained their peers for implementation, with modules deployed in the fall of 2017.\"},{\"question\":\"Why is new student orientation emphasized in the paper?\",\"answer\":\"It serves as a productive campus site for communication center student consultants to strengthen peers’ public speaking, interpersonal, and small-group communication skills.\"}]","Building Campus Partnerships through Advocacy and Collaboration | PDF",1792088341]