Academic and Career Planning Center to Host Open House
The new Academic and Career Planning Center at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, will host an open house for its new space on Wednesday, Oct. 14, from 1 to 5 p.m. in Reed Union Building, room 125, immediately above the college’s recently renovated bookstore. The Academic and Career Planning Center was previously the Career Development Center and Division of Undergraduate Studies.
The center’s 5,000-square-foot suite includes 11 offices, three standard interview rooms and a video interview room, since Penn State Behrend students increasingly are being interviewed by companies recruiting at the University Park campus. In addition, a new executive conference room is located at the front of the suite and available for campus use.
Weber Murphy Fox, which also led the design of the college’s $30 million Research and Economic Development Center, planned and designed the bookstore renovation and expansion project, which included the center’s new space.
The Academic and Career Planning Center is one-stop resource for students’ academic and career needs, including advising and scheduling services for, in particular, first-year and exploratory students to interviewing skills, career planning, and assistance with securing internships, full-time positions or admission to graduate school for upperclassman.
Now that the Academic and Career Planning Center has relocated, Penn State Behrend’s Office of Educational Equity and Diversity Programs and Personal Counseling office are housed in the center’s former space. Future renovations to this shared space will ensure that students have more privacy when seeking either office’s services.