Campus community members are invited to celebrate the opening of the McCord-Herbst Student Veteran Center from 9 a.m. to Noon Sept. 8.
Tours of the renovated space will be led by staff and refreshments will be served. Those who plan to attend are asked to respond here by Sept. 6 to aid in food ordering.
In September 2015, Chancellor Pam Shockley-Zalabak announced plans to move the Office of Veteran and Military Student Affairs from a former home on the eastern edge of campus to expanded and remodeled centrally located facilities.
The 2,100 square foot offices in the Gateway Garage in space previously occupied by the Student Health Center. Throughout the spring and summer, contractors worked to turn space were once examined for strep throat to a new home for offices and lounge space specifically designed for veteran and military students.
Lights will be LED, both because they are efficient and because they don’t pulse the way fluorescents do. And there will be a new walkway leading to an east side door for easy access. Students will also be able to enter through Parking and Transportation Services offices. Ceilings were raised and the space offers a kitchen, complete with a wheelchair accessible microwave oven, as well as group study work areas and quiet areas. Wireless hotspots will ensure everyone has access.
In what were exam rooms, staff for the Office of Veteran and Military Student Affairs will have offices where they can meet privately with students to discuss finances, including how to access military benefits, or challenges students face when transitioning to university life.
The McCord-Herbst Center is named in recognition of the late Charles McCord and his wife, Sue, and Clancy Herbst and his wife, Linda. Charles McCord served as president of the University of Colorado Foundation, which manages the university’s philanthropy and endowments, from 1981 to 2000. He died in 2013 at age 78.
Clancy Herbst, of Chicago and Aspen, received the University Medal for his two decades of service to the CU Foundation Board of Trustees. He was chairman of CU’s Frontier 2000 capital campaign from 1986 to 1993, and served as honorary chairman of the Beyond Boundaries campaign from 1996 to 2003.
The Herbsts committed $400,000 to the project and requested that it bear both the McCord and Herbst family names.
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