From Mary-Ellen Boyle, Associate Provost and Dean of the College:

 SUMMER MOVES ON CAMPUS – JULY 18,  2012

As you have no doubt heard (and perhaps even been directly involved with), a number of offices and staff are being moved this summer, primarily in order to create a temporary home for the LEEP Center and to begin to consolidate graduate admissions.

The LEEP Center, provisionally located in Dana Commons, is intended to offer holistic student support and advising, connecting students with all sorts of resources: curricular, co-curricular, extra-curricular and beyond the campus so that their entire educational experience is well aligned with their interests, goals, and abilities.

In addition to co-locating various academic services for student and faculty, the LEEP Center will work with Alumni Affairs to create an alumni network of mentors and internships, and will create a set of organizational partners (commercial, governmental, non-profit) who will engage with students. Eventually, the LEEP Center will be housed in a new building, still in the planning stages, and its staff will be expanded.

Dana Commons will continue to house the Higgins School of Humanities, the Prayer Room, and the McCann Resource room.

This is what’s changed:

• The LEEP Center includes current staff from Career Services, Study Abroad, Community Engagement, Leir-Luxembourg Program, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Writing Center, CETL, and part of Academic Advising. They will be located on the first and second floors of Dana, though all are temporarily on the first floor until cubicles are constructed in the former Multipurpose Room.

LEEP Center staff are: Alexis Bazoukas, Vicki Cox-Lanyon, Micki Davis, Uwe Gertz, Adriane van Gils-Pierce, Lee Goldstein, Connie Whitehead Hanks, Gayle Holland, Jen Plante, Susan Priest, Evette Walters, Amy Whitney, and Barbara Zerillo

• Previously located in Dana, Academic Advancement and the Office of Intercultural Affairs are now in Corner House.  This includes Amy Daly Gardner, Patty Doherty, Veda Genkos, and Shirley Watkins.
• Jane Daigneault and Disability Services are on the fourth floor of Goddard in the former CETL offices, fully accessible.
• Kevin McKenna and his administrative assistant, Diana Hennessy-Curran will be on the second floor of the Geography Building starting August 1.
• Nancy Budwig has moved within the Geography Building, across the hall to 210. Bill Fisher will have her former office.
• By the end of July, Bill Fisher, Dean of Graduate Studies, Denise Robertson, Coordinator of the Graduate School, and offices related to graduate admissions will be located at 138 Woodland Street. There will be more to report on the consolidations of graduate offices soon.
• Student groups that formerly used spaces in Dana Commons and on 138 Woodland Street are being relocated.

 Phone numbers will not change.

Building signs, maps, websites, and the phone book will be updated.

 THANKS TO ALL WHO ARE MAKING THIS HAPPEN!