Sentry Halls Changes on Professors

Professors are now required to relocate office and classroom locations due to the renovation of the Collins Classroom Center beginning in summer 2026.  

The CCC currently houses all offices for the School of Humanities and Global Studies. The academic building also includes more than 50 classrooms that are used for the School of Humanities and Global Studies.  

The new building, Sentry Hall, will hold the School of Business and Economics classes, as well as the offices for those professors and the new academic centers.   

Professors who currently have offices in the CCC will be mainly rehomed to Offices in the College of Professional Studies Building.  

This change means the professors in the CPS will be temporarily moved into the vacant space in Delzell Hall, as well as other available spaces in the library.  

Professors have not yet been given the exact locations or numbers of new classroom locations.  

Erica Ringelspaugh, assistant professor of English at UWSP for 10 years and a UWSP alum said, “I want to know where and how my office will be set up. I want to know how my classrooms will be laid out.” 

Humanities and Global Studies professors have all been located on the fourth floor, but with the change, they will be relocated to different office spaces in the CPS.  

“We have colleagues who have worked here for close to 30 years or so, and they’ve always been in the CCC,” said Tobias Barske, the assistant dean in the School of Humanities and Global Studies.  

The CCC was originally built in 1965 and was built to serve the humanities at UWSP. Although it was considered the humanities building, it is now a cornerstone of UWSP’s academic fabric.  

“It’s a good thing we’re moving, but, of course, it’s nostalgic to have to move from somewhere you’ve been,” said Barske. 

Robert Sirabian, professor of English at UWSP for 21 years and College of Letters and Science Faculty coordinator, said, “It’s a space that you’ve grown accustomed to, and I’ll miss that.”   

The new space will provide a larger, more open area. Sentry Hall’s design allows for a refocus on what is needed in the new classroom spaces. With old technology from when the building was originally built, the building does not fit the needs of current students.  

“They’ll be contemporary and well-suited for the educational needs of students today with the technology and the layout of the spaces and the configurations of the classrooms,” said Sirabian.  

Ricardo Boeing, a marketing professor at UWSP for 12 years and director of internships for Sentry School of Business and Economics, said, “I think it’s going to be great for recurring purposes, because students are going to be taking classes there regardless of their major.” 

The new office location in Delzell Hall for professors may allow more online office hours via Zoom, due to the building being further away from the academic buildings and resident halls.  

“I think most of them {students} are going to move to online options, like meeting over zoom,” said Boeing. 

Kevin Neuman, assistant dean of College of Professional Studies and Head of Sentry School of Business and Economics, said, “It’s a great opportunity to physically change the space but is also allows alumni and donors to come back and help, which makes our campus very inviting and modern.” 

Part of the process of redesigning the CCC into Sentry Hall allows classrooms to be reformatted for students.  

Neumann said this allows for “A much more inviting space, more student-focused and community-focused centers to really connect our students with our network and the community. The classrooms being situated and designed for the way our people want to teach and the way our students learn, that is not an opportunity that we get a lot in a UW school.” 

Brianna Ankerson and Abbey Holmes

News Reporters

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