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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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You are invited to join the staff of the Communication Center for the official grand opening. The event will begin with comments from President Peterson and a tutoring session led by him for a group of students.
From 11:45-1:00, there will be an open house with refreshments. We are located in the Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons, Suite 447. We look forward to welcoming you, and giving you a tour of this important new facility.
Communication Center: Our Space
We
designed Georgia Tech's Communication Center to be a leading-edge model
for communication education. From its design in the Communication
Center Task Force Report in 2007, the Communication Center has presented
a strong vision: It not only includes CommLab (with multiple kinds of
tutoring and practice spaces for writing and design), but it also
includes four Rehearsal Studios (with multiple spaces for coaching
presentations and small group interactions as well as providing
opportunities for student to use the spaces for presentation
rehearsals). In addition, the Communication Center has two offices (for
the new Director and her two Assistant Directors), two small group
meeting and conferencing rooms, a Resource Room for tutor meetings, and a
storage space. In addition to the two Assistant Directors, there are
five professional tutors--all of whom hold PhDs in a
communication-related disciplines. Later this year, peer-tutors will
begin working in the space, and plans to include Research Tutors from
the Library and ESL Tutors from the Language Institute are also being
developed.
Communication Center: Our History
Before this new
Communication Center, Georgia Tech has never had a campus-wide
communication resource. Having the Communication Center be part of the
Writing and Communication Program provides a clear message — that we
designed this center to support our multimodal curriculum as well as to
support campus-wide communication needs. We're one of the few
communication centers in the country to have such a close and
articulated relationship between the curriculum and the
tutoring/coaching support for that curriculum. And we're one of the few
communication centers in the country to have a research-based program — a
center explicitly built on research and a center with research as an
explicit and expected outcome.
