The Career Resource Center’s front doors on the first floor of the Humanities Building. The center’s staff begins moving to its new location this week.

In an effort to bring student advising and career support to the center of campus, the Career Resource Center is moving from the Haggerty Administration Building to the Humanities Building, beginning Jan. 14.

Tonda Highley, associate dean of student advising and director of the Career Resource Center, is excited about moving to the heart of campus. “We’ve been interested in finding a more accessible space for students,” said Highley.

The major highlight of the new location is that it is closer to classrooms and faculty offices and is now across the concourse from the Academic Advising Center (in the Wooster Science Building), an office that the Career Resource Center works closely with in preparing students for meaningful careers after New Paltz.

The renovation of rooms 105, 105A and 105C in the Humanities Building will provide the center with seven new offices, a waiting area, a reception area, interview rooms and a conference room. The center, which is also the training site for students completing practicums in the Mental Health Counseling Program, will have additional space to carry out training. The center will also be working with Instructional Media Services to install digital signage outside of the new location to announce the center’s programming and events.

The waiting area (left) and an office (right) in Career Resource Center in the Humanities Building.

Highley said the move has allowed the department to continue enhancing its services towards their new focus established at the beginning of 2008. “We have shifted our department’s focus towards services to support students seeking internships and post-graduate employment opportunities,” said Highley.

For more information on the Career Resource Center, visit www.newpaltz.edu/careers.

Tags: Career Resource Center, Haggerty Administration Building, Humanities Building, Moving In Day

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