About the Stinson Student Advancement Center

Creating a Community

SBA has invested more than $1 million to create a student-centered community in its Elliott Hall home by consolidating student services to encourage career enrichment, education, networking and socialization.

The state-of-the-art Stinson Student Advancement Center supports the three tenets of the SBA — integrative thinking, experiential learning and global understanding — through a student room that offers tools for global interactions, collaborations, alumni-student connections, project sponsor-student interactions and business leadership forums.

Together with a separate Network Security Instructional Lab, an executive and professional education room and the new Elliott Hall Café that serves coffee and sandwiches, phase two of the Elliott Hall renovation is complete.

Stinson Center Facts

• Services Available: Advising, mentoring and career development
• Supports Collaborative Work: State of the art collaboration space featuring flexible design to allow easy reconfiguration for multiple education, conference, lecture and other uses separately or concurrently to enable formal and informal collaboration among faculty, students, alumni and the business community, including a cafe serving sandwiches and coffee
• Advances Student Learning: Technology to support innovations  in teaching and learning through action-based learning in a new Network Security Lab
• Facilitates Global Interactions: Leading edge technology that supports virtual global experiences and connectivity to international business centers around the world.

The area for the center was renovated using natural and sustainable materials with high recycled content.

The Stinson Student Advancement Center is named in honor of Ann and Craig Stinson, longtime supporters and friends of Oakland University and the School of Business Administration.

More Information

Read news article
See photos from the grand opening
Replay of Grand Opening program (Monday, Dec. 13)
Grand Opening event details
Event Program (pdf)

Special Thank You (pdf)