The Arts and Sciences Advisement Center is moving to a bigger and better location this week.
The center will be closed until Tuesday to complete the move from Ortega Hall to the Student Services Building, according to an e-mail sent to all Arts and Sciences students on Tuesday.
Brenda Claiborne, Arts and Sciences Dean, said students were informed about the closure only two days ahead of time because of the remodeling process in Student Services.
“The Advising center sent an e-mail out to students as soon as we were notified of the definite move dates,” she said in an e-mail to the Daily Lobo. “As the remodeling process can be unpredictable, we did not want to send vague or confusing information to our student body before we knew the exact dates of the move.”
The Advisement Center’s new space was recently re-modeled to provide waiting-room space for up to 30 students and space for three new advisers.
The Student Services Center is currently home to University College Advisement, One-Stop and Bursar’s Office. Moving Arts and Sciences Advisement to Student Services will help streamline the advisement process, Claiborne said.
She said the number of students in the College of Arts and Sciences has grown 40 percent in the last eight years. But the Advisement Center hasn’t been able to expand as well.
“The University agreed that to better serve our growing population of students, the Advising Center of the College needed more space,” she said.
The e-mail sent to all Arts and Sciences students said that Advisement will probably need more time to process paperwork during the move.
“If you need paperwork processed, it may take longer than the usual week turnaround,” the e-mail said. “We appreciate your patience during our move.”
Although the center will be closed, Claiborne said students who need advisement services can e-mail and call the center most of Thursday and Monday. She said students who need emergency advisement can visit the University College Advisement Center in the Student Services Building.
Student Julie Lang said students in Arts and Sciences who have holds on their accounts may have problems when the center is closed.
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“I didn’t realize that I had a graduation hold on my account until yesterday,” she said. “It’s kind of inconvenient if you need to get that taken care of right away.”
Student Troy Linthicum agreed that students with holds, especially those who want to sign up for eight-week classes, might be frustrated. But he said having the center in Student Services will be more convenient.
“Having everything in one spot seems like a better idea,” he said.
Claiborne said she requested that the center move to Student Services over a year ago.
“We are very pleased that our request was granted and that this move is happening,” she said. “It will allow us to improve services to our dedicated and hard-working students.”
Online advisement appointments can be made at Unm.edu/~artsci/
