The Speaking Center at UVA

We are currently booking appointments for April 2025. Consultations are free for UVA students. If you have any general questions, please email: speakingcenteratuva@gmail.com

Students helping fellow students with their public speaking needs

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Mission: The Speaking Center provides students with the highest quality service to assist them with their communication skills so that all Virginia students can realize their full oratorical potential.

A one-on-one consultation

One-on-one consultations

Led by students involved in public-speaking groups on grounds, we will facilitate one-on-one tutoring sessions to help relieve stress and create a more persuasive presentation or speech. Through 30 minute sessions, students will adjust and prepare for their assignments and reduce their stigma behind public speaking as a whole.

Professor lecturing a classroom of students

Faculty Trained

Virginia public speaking professors have trained our student consultants to effectively teach material concerning oral communication. Through training, our student consultants have gained a greater understanding behind the structure of speeches and presentations, how to effectively and succinctly articulate arguments, and how to assist those dealing with speech anxiety.

Although this organization has members who are University of Virginia students and may have University employees associated or engaged in its activities and affairs, the organization is not a part of or an agency of the University. It is a separate and independent organization, which is responsible for and manages its own activities and affairs. The University does not direct, supervise or control the organization and is not responsible for the organization’s contracts, acts or omissions.