New Alumni Center Houses Offices, Hospitality Room
For an Alumni Association as young as UAFS’s, there are plenty of milestones to be gained—hosting the first alumni weekend, launching the magazine, forming the advisory council, and so on—but few are as gratifying as moving into a new campus home.
As big a deal as it is, though, for the alumni staff to have their own suite of offices, it’s an even bigger deal for alumni themselves to have a place of their own on the UAFS campus.“The Alumni Center is going to be a home away from home for our alumni and a front door to the university,” says Alumni Director Elizabeth Underwood of the spacious suite located on the southwest corner of the intersection of Kinkead Avenue and Waldron Road, across from the Stubblefield Center. “We want this to be the first stop when alumni visit campus.”
In addition to offices, the Alumni Center, formerly occupied by the UA Cooperative Extension office, has a conference room for use by the Young Alumni Council, the Alumni Advisory Board, and the Student Alumni Association; a large workroom for the SAA; a reception area; and, most importantly, a comfortable hospitality room with campus history exhibits, the yearbook library, and plenty of casual seating.
The door is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays, and alumni and friends of UAFS, Westark, and FSJC are always welcome. And the best part? There’s reserved parking for guests right in front of the building!
