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In September 2024, first-year advisors at American University were told their office would be shut down in a few months’ time, days before the busiest time in their semester. Now the advisors, already feeling undervalued by administrators, are taking a hard look at their futures at the school. Published April 2025 in AWOL Magazine’s 36th print edition.

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The front desk in Clark Hall on February 26, 2025.
Spare office supplies and miscellaneous objects fill a conference room in Clark Hall.
Movers remove furniture from First-Year Advising office building Clark Hall on March 31, 2025. Advisors had to vacate the building on March 27, Roshan Abraham said.
First-year advisor Roshan Abraham sits in his office in Clark Hall on February 24, 2025.
Abraham in his packed-up office on March 19.