UC Offices Plan To Consolidate
Attia Nasar
Issue date: 4/26/07 Section: News
This summer construction will begin on the new student financial services office. This new office is a consolidation of the financial aid and business affairs offices, according to Stephen Pattarini, dean for student success.
Pattarini was asked by President Todd Hutton to take the lead on the task force with the goal of coming up with a model for an integrated student financial services office, and that's what he has been doing for the past 10 weeks Pattarini said.
With the new office "you go to one place and you speak to one person and they've got all that information on their desktop and they can answer 80 percent of your questions and you're not bounced from one place to another," Pattarini said.
The new office will be taking over rooms 101, 102, 117, 118 and 119 in Hubbard Hall said President Todd Hutton in a memo titled "Campus Update, Spring 2007" on April 3, 2007.
That area was the easiest to reconfigure, Pattarini said. "When you think about it, there's really not another physical space that provides us with that kind of area," he said.
But he's not worried about finding space for classrooms because the new science center will be done in the beginning of June, Pattarini said. Once the science center opens up that will free up classrooms in Gordon Science Center. Another possibility is turning the present financial aid and business affairs offices into classrooms or faculty offices, he said.
The reason these two offices are being merged together is because they are "so interrelated and dependent on each other to give accurate information to students, so they know where they stand what they need to do, that it seems a logical marriage," Pattarini said.
"Communication between the administration and students has been ongoing in terms of what the concerns that students had in terms of getting quality service and service that provides them with a higher level of efficiencies and higher level of privacy and higher level of response," he said.
Pattarini was asked by President Todd Hutton to take the lead on the task force with the goal of coming up with a model for an integrated student financial services office, and that's what he has been doing for the past 10 weeks Pattarini said.
With the new office "you go to one place and you speak to one person and they've got all that information on their desktop and they can answer 80 percent of your questions and you're not bounced from one place to another," Pattarini said.
The new office will be taking over rooms 101, 102, 117, 118 and 119 in Hubbard Hall said President Todd Hutton in a memo titled "Campus Update, Spring 2007" on April 3, 2007.
That area was the easiest to reconfigure, Pattarini said. "When you think about it, there's really not another physical space that provides us with that kind of area," he said.
But he's not worried about finding space for classrooms because the new science center will be done in the beginning of June, Pattarini said. Once the science center opens up that will free up classrooms in Gordon Science Center. Another possibility is turning the present financial aid and business affairs offices into classrooms or faculty offices, he said.
The reason these two offices are being merged together is because they are "so interrelated and dependent on each other to give accurate information to students, so they know where they stand what they need to do, that it seems a logical marriage," Pattarini said.
"Communication between the administration and students has been ongoing in terms of what the concerns that students had in terms of getting quality service and service that provides them with a higher level of efficiencies and higher level of privacy and higher level of response," he said.
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