Mussafer Hall provides a combined home for the Academic Advising Center, Career Services and the Success Center. By collocating these three departments adjacent to Cudd Hall, the administrative building for the Newcomb-Tulane Undergraduate College and the Center for Public Service in Alcee Fortier Hall, a number of undergraduate academic services are centralized on the edge of a single quad.
Located on Tulane University’s Gibson Quad, Mussafer Hall combines the adaptive reuse of a 1902 brick building with a modern limestone addition. The building is the home of the Center for Student Success, which brings together Tulane’s Academic Advising and Career Services programs.
The 1902 Dutch-Renaissance style building was originally constructed as the college’s first dormitory. The long, narrow building was divided by a double-loaded corridor. The glass-fronted offices and interview rooms lining the hall have windows looking outside to make the building feel open and bright. Two original stairwells have been repurposed as lightwells and, where possible, original brick interior walls were exposed and repointed.