{"id":405,"date":"2012-08-08T02:01:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T07:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tabsslidertype=simpleauto=yesfx=slideautospeed=4000tab\/tabtab"},"modified":"2026-09-09T17:15:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T22:15:56","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/speakingcenter\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">The Speaking Center at Abilene Christian University supports students, faculty, staff, and Abilene community members as they work to improve their public speaking skills.<\/h3>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">We help with speech delivery, group presentations, organization, visual aids, and the finding of credible sources. Have a presentation in any class? We are here to help!<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Our mission is to create a welcoming atmosphere where anyone can become a more confident and competent speaker. Our consultants come from different backgrounds and are trained to provide feedback during all phases of the speech preparation process.<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><em>To schedule an appointment, click <a href=\"https:\/\/go.oncehub.com\/speakingcenter\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">We are located on the top floor of the ACU Brown Library in the AT&amp;T Learning Studio<\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-303\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/speakingcenter\/files\/2011\/10\/SpeakingCenter-head-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"987\" height=\"85\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/speakingcenter\/files\/2011\/10\/SpeakingCenter-head-1.png 962w, https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/speakingcenter\/files\/2011\/10\/SpeakingCenter-head-1-300x25.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 987px) 100vw, 987px\" \/><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Fall 2026 Hours<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Mondays &#8211; Thursdays Noon &#8211; 9:00 PM<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Fridays Noon to 3:00 PM<\/h3>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center\">Sundays 7:00 &#8211; 10:00 PM<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center\"><em>We will close for all official national and campus holidays.<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 The Speaking Center at Abilene Christian University supports students, faculty, staff, and Abilene community members as they work to improve their public speaking skills. We help with speech delivery, group presentations, organization, visual aids, and the finding of credible sources. Have a presentation in any class? We are here to help! &nbsp; Our mission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-405","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/speakingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/speakingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/speakingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/speakingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/speakingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":80,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/speakingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1279,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/speakingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/405\/revisions\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/speakingcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}