General
After your freshman year, you may want to move off campus with friends. This office will likely have information on places for rent.
Housing/ Res Life
You’ve taking English 102 this semester and haven’t been able to get a grade higher than a C on all your papers thus far. You visit your professor’s office hours, hoping for feedback and he suggests this center on a campus to help you make improvements on your paper.
The Writing Center
Your syllabus from each course you take in college will have a list of required texts and materials that you’ll need to purchase from this place
Bookstore
You want to start a fornite club on campus. This is the office you’d go to
Student Life/ Student Activities
You think you are sick. You have a fever and maybe might feel like I’m gonna faint. This office on campus will help you in your time of need.
Health Center
As a freshman, this office should be one of your first stops when you want to learn more about what kind of events and programs your schools has to offer.
Campus/Student Life
You are taking a difficult course and you are on the absolute struggle bus. You’ve failed the first exam and your professor loves giving pop up quizzes, this support resource on campus will help you identify strategies to get back on track
Tutoring
You received an award letter from your college that included scholarships, but you have a question about the amount of money you should take out in student loans. This office will help you figure out how much you should take out.
Office of Financial Aid
You’re fed up with your roommate because his/her side of the room looks like a hurricane swept thru. You tried talking to them, but it hasn’t worked. This PERSON is someone you should probably go talk to
Resident Assistant/Advisor aka RA
You are locked out of your email and student portal because you forgot your password and now you are unable to reset the password. This office will help you get back in
IT Office
This office is known for hosting and sponsoring cultural related events and initiatives on campus. You’d likely go here to learn about various Affinity groups on campus
Office of Diversity & Inclusion/ Multicultural Affairs
You started out the semester having a good sense of what you wanted to major in, but then you took a course that you thought you would like and hated. This office will help you explore some additional options to consider for a major to figure out what you like.
Career Services
It’s the end of your 1st semester of college and you realize you spent all your money on Domino’s Pizza & Starbucks Frappuccinos. You decided it’d be fiscally responsible for you to upgrade your meal plan. This office will be able to support you in your effort to up your meals for the semester.
Dining Services
You are a student at SUNY Albany and you REALLLLYYY miss home. Your first semester has been a bit difficult to adjust to and you haven’t made as many friends as you hoped. You’ve called home a few times but your parents, just don’t understand. This office and resource on campus, will likely be the listening ear you need.
Counseling Center
You have an IEP and would like extended time for my test. This office will help you arrange those accommodations.
Disability Services
If you've taken a few College Now credits or taken a CLEP exam, you'll want to get credit for them. This office is where’d you go to submit an official copy of your college transcript for college credit
Registrar’s Office
This person is often someone you’d turn to in the event that you need help registering for classes or are curious about your next steps related to your major
Academic Advisor
You may go here to find an opportunity to work on campus.
Employment Services/Student Employment Office
This office known for sending out early-warning text and email alerts about local crime and security threats. This office is likely be the first stop and resource after a student has been sexually assaulted or raped on school grounds
Campus Safety
In the event that you break a rule found in the student handbook like plagiarism, drinking and smoking on school property, you’d likely face this office to deal with the repercussions.
Student Affairs or Dean of Students
This office generally houses information about faculty and academic programs. Their website often has information on faculty department heads in the event that you may need to make a complaint about an unfair or unruly professor.
Academic Affairs/ Faculty
This office often shares a home with the writing center, tutoring, and career services. Sometimes you may also find special programs like EOP or HEOP also lives here too.
Opportunity Office/ Student Success
Both you and your parents would like to set up a payment plan to pay your bill for your college costs. This is the office you’d remit payment to
Bursar's Office
This organization is often a great resource to connect with other graduates, learn about professional opportunities, and stay in touch with your college and it's events and programming once you graduate.
Alumni Association
This place is your go to access free books, study with classmates, and learn information about many things. Usually if you want to take something with you, you'll have to check it out.
Library