Lissa and Cy Wagner Student Academic Services Center

Lissa and Cy Wagner Student Academic Services Center. . The Lissa and Cy Wagner Student Academic Services Center was built in 2008 to bring together under one roof the main academic services available to students. The building is located on the former site of Savoie Lottinville Hall which housed the University of Oklahoma Press until its move to a larger facility on OU's North Campus. The center opened as the home to University College's Advising and Enrollment, Assessment and Learning, Freshman Programs, and the Center for Student Advancement offices as well as OU's Graduation Office and Writing Center. The center also includes resources for career counseling, tutoring, and college orientation classes. There are several classrooms and small group study rooms as well as a computer lab and a two-story atrium that serve as community spaces which encourage students to spend time together conversing and exchanging ideas. , The building is named in honor of Lissa and Cy Wagner of Midland, Texas. Cy Wagner earned his bachelor's degree in geology from OU in 1956 and went on to pursue a remarkably successful career in the energy industry. Lissa Wagner, a graduate of the University of Texas, has been a lifelong supporter of higher education and has served as a trustee of Texas Christian University. She has also served as an active board member for arts and education institutions in the Midland Odessa communities in Texas. In 2005, Mr. Wagner was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame and the following year, he received the University's highest honor, the Doctor of Humane Letters. , The Wagners are among the University's most visionary supporters whose generosity has benefited virtually every area of campus. They were Energy Center founders and founding members of the Seed Sower Society, which honors OU donors of $1 million or more. The Wagners were major donors to the Sooner Sports Great Expectations Campaign and the renovation of the Wagner Dining Hall. The couple's gifts have created an endowed professorship in geology and geophysics and a Presidential Professorship that honors outstanding teachers. Their gifts also made possible improvements in the Laurence S. Youngblood Energy Library and the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art. In 2006, they established the largest single scholarship endowment in OU history at that time, the Cy and Lissa Wagner Sooner Heritage Scholarship.