The Adult Student Services Center was established as the Re-entry and Nontraditional Student Services Office on September 1, 1991, with Maxine Thompson (Davis) as its first director. It was established for the benefit of undergraduate students 25-years-old or older who had delayed or interrupted their college education or who had children.
In addition to direct services, such as an adult student orientation, programs, and workshops, the office published a newsletter, Transitions, in the fall and spring, and initiated a handbook, Encore, describing services available to adult students. The first edition of Encore won a Certificate of Merit from the National Academic Advising Association as an Outstanding General Advising Publication.
The office was retitled the Adult Student Services Center in the late 1990s. The center was terminated on June 30, 2008, as part of the $11.1 million required budget cuts resulting from the economic downtown. At the time of its termination, the center was serving approximately two thousand students, and had two employees—Assistant Director Lydia Jurand and graduate assistant Jennifer Bodnar. It held its final adult student orientation July 7.