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Frances Searle
Reception area of Frances Searle 
Completed in 1972, the 83,000-square-foot Frances Searle Building houses the Deans Office, the Department of Communication Studies, and The Roxelyn and Richard Pepper Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders. The building serves a large part of the School's administrative, teaching, clinical, and research activities.
Video conference room in Frances Searle 
In Frances Searle, the Dean's Office carries out the administrative functions of the School. Undergraduate students visit advisors and find internships in the Office of Undergraduate Programs' Student Resource Center. Faculty and students use the Digital Services Center and Teleconferencing Facilities.
An audiology class in the department of Communication Sciences and Disorders 
The Richard and Roxelyn Pepper Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders uses portions of the building for diagnostic, therapy, and counseling rooms in Speech Language Pathology, Learning Disabilities, and Audiology. Classrooms are equipped for all types of audiovisual presentations; and laboratories are used for physiological, psychoacoustic, psychoeducational, and behavioral research.
A class in Rhetoric, Media, and Public Culture 
The Department of Communication Studies houses portions of its undergraduate and graduate majors in Frances Searle, along with its professional education program, the Masters of Science in Communication.


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