The School of Business’ Office of Student Services and Advising is one of a kind at Central.   The mission of our office is to create a home that supports our business majors through academic processes like college transition, junior admission, and any academic adjustment; all with the goal of creating well-educated, ethical, confident individuals who will become the talent for the dynamic workforce that Connecticut businesses and industries will rely upon.

Students are admitted both to Central and our School of Business as pre-majors in accounting, entrepreneurship, finance, international business, management, management information systems or marketing. They are granted upper division status at their junior year, if they have attained our grade and course requirements, and will then work with faculty advisors and mentors in their major.

The goal of our office is to offer the kind of services we ourselves would want to experience.  This is true of our student receptionists and all our advisors.   We are well-known for walking students across campus when further information is needed from other offices.

Our reception desk is totally run by diverse student employees who answer phones, make appointments, give directions to campus and, most importantly, maintain the “student first”  atmosphere for which we pride ourselves.   We maintain an 8:30 am to 7pm office schedule to assure availability for family meetings for working students as well as for traditional students. 

The School of Business Office of Student Services and Advising maintains a tutoring lab in the Robert C. Vance Academic Center for students needing assistance in their statistics, economics, accounting or finance classes.   We also have Bloomberg Financial reporting terminals in our office, and they are led by trained students with the goal of  students’  learning to perform high level financial analyses.   

Our office also organizes the annual First Year Orientation for new students.  When new business students, both freshmen and transfer students, are accepted to CCSU, they receive a “Welcome to the School of Business Family” letter from us, inviting them to a get acquainted meeting where we explain both academic and University policies in a relaxed atmosphere. 

Our office is responsible for organizing School of Business representatives for the CCSU Fall and Spring Open Houses.  We always have a cadre of current students to answer student life questions as well as faculty representatives from each of our departments to talk to students and their parents about each of our majors, courses involved and potential career options.  We have organized “Shadow Days” where prospective students, often Open House attendees, arrange to spend a day at CSSU, attending classes with their student host, having lunch, touring the campus, meeting our Dean, and even attending an athletic event if one is scheduled.   

The CCSU motto of “Start with a Dream. Finish with A Future” is our mantra.

If you would like more information or to visit our office please contact me at 832-3205.