New Digs....kinda

In early August, the Admissions staff had our final staff retreat of the summer where we finalized assigning office duties and travel/reading territories (among other things). As a special treat for the conclusion of our retreat, Thyra arranged for our staff to get a special hard-hat visit to our new digs. 

 For those who don’t know next summer Harvey Mudd College will be unveiling its brand new Teaching and Learning Building. The 70,000 square-foot academic building will “provide flexible and technologically-advanced classrooms, lecture halls, faculty offices and public spaces to support the pedagogies and learning styles – for today and tomorrow.”

 But what’s most exciting for my colleagues is that the TLB (I don’t know if that’s what we’re supposed to call it, but I’m going with it) will house our new digs!!!! The most exciting part for me, of course, is that the TLB will house a brand new café which will make it much easier to get my morning coffee fix.

It was fun to walk through all of the different sections of the building, and though there aren’t many walls up yet, it was much easier to visualize the space that will be the Office of Admission by this time next year. Raissa and I were able to “duke-it-out” over who will claim which office space and at this point I think we’ve pretty much come to an agreement. However, I suspect divvying up office space will be a subject revisited at least once more before we make the big move across the courtyard :)

Special Thanks to Asst VP for Planning and Construction David Dower for our guided tour of the TLB!