Students can now visit their advisors within their own dorms after the UW-Madison Cross College Advising Service recently branched out into more residents halls.
Prior to this semester, advisors maintained one full-time advising office in the Chadbourne Residential College. There will now be offices in Sellery Residence Hall and the Bradley Learning Community.
The expansion is an attempt to link a student's academic life and life in general more closely, according to Cal Bergman, coordinator of academic programs for the UW-Madison Division of University Housing.
In the past, this method of offering advising in a student's home has been popular.
According to Timothy Walsh, the Cross College Advising director, the number of students attending evening group advising sessions in the residence halls jumped from 310 in fall 1999 to more than 1,500 last fall.
