Grainger Hall addition leads to unit relocations

Four campus units will relocate from 905 University Ave. to other locations around campus to accommodate growth at the School of Business.

The McBurney Disability Resource Center, the Counseling and Consultation Services (C&CS) arm of University Health Services (UHS), offices of the Division of Continuing Studies and College of Letters and Science/School of Human Ecology Career Services all will move after the end of the spring semester.

The building at 905 University Ave., once home of the First Wisconsin Bank, will be removed to make way for the new MBA wing of Grainger Hall facing the intersection of Park Street and University Avenue.

In March 2004, the university announced the plans after receiving a $20 million gift from the Grainger Foundation of Lake Forest, Ill. The new addition is expected to open its doors to students in fall 2007.

In the case of the four units, every effort will be made to make the transition with a minimum of disruption of campus services, says Alan Fish, associate vice chancellor for Facilities Planning and Management.

McBurney, along with the Division of Continuing Studies and the College of Letters and Science/School of Human Ecology Career Services, will be relocated to the W.S. Middleton Building, 1305 Linden Drive.

Formerly the W.S. Middleton Medical Library, the building is located directly across from the School of Human Ecology. The library relocated to the new Health Sciences Learning Center last summer.

“Although the name sounds like we’re moving to the suburbs, we’ll actually be in the heart of campus and closer to many of the students we serve,” says Trey Duffy, McBurney director.

Duffy says the new location sits on the Route 80 and 81 campus bus lines and will offer disabled-accessible parking directly behind the building in Lot 21.

“We serve over half of the university’s undergraduates, so this move will benefit both recruiters and students who use our services,” says Ann Groves Lloyd, director of Letters and Science Career Services. “We’ll be centrally located for L&S students and right across the street for SoHE students.”

C&CS will move into Rust and Schreiner Halls, 115 and 123 North Orchard St., currently the site of single graduate student housing. Rust-Schreiner is located about a half block from Union South, Engineering Library and Computer Sciences, with a Madison Metro bus stop one block away.

C&CS eventually will rejoin the rest of University Health Services in the future University Square development, slated to be finished in the next three to four years.

“We are very grateful to University Housing for giving up one of their halls to provide us a home,” says Kathleen Poi, executive director of UHS. “Although this may be a temporary inconvenience, students can look forward to a state-of-the-art health facility coming their way in the near future.”

Current residents of Rust and Schreiner Halls will be guaranteed a lease in University Apartments for 2005-06.