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Facilities
Adobe Lodge
Adobe Lodge is the oldest building on campus. Restored in 1981 to its original 1822 decor, the lodge contains a presidential dining room as well as central and private dining facilities for faculty and staff.
Bellomy Fields
Eight acres of well-lighted grassy field space accommodates intramural, club, and some intercollegiate practices for softball, flag football, soccer, rugby, lacrosse, and baseball.
Benson Center
The Robert F. Benson Memorial Center is the hub of campus life. The Benson Center is designed to meet the various needs of students, faculty, staff, alumni, and guests, and to provide an environment for the education of the whole person that continues outside the classroom. Among the many services and facilities available are The Bronco (SCU’s late-night food and social venue), the Information Desk, Market Square, Mission Bakery and Terrace Cafe, Shapell Lounge, meeting rooms, the bookstore, and post office. In addition, the office of Campus Ministry, a number of student services, and the offices for undergraduate student government and various student organizations are housed in the Center.
Classroom Buildings
Nine classroom buildings house more than 70 classrooms plus numerous administrative offices. Mayer Theatre and three Fine Arts buildings provide special classroom, rehearsal, and performance facilities.
Computing Facilities
All registered students are provided with University networking and e-mail accounts when they arrive, and they may use any of the computing resources. All residence hall rooms are equipped with a CATV connection, and data and telephone jacks for each student in the room. In general, all full-time faculty members have a personal computer or workstation in their offices, and computer use is a common element in all disciplines.
Santa Clara provides minicomputer and personal computing facilities to support educational programs. Free noncredit short courses are offered periodically. The main general computing labs are typically open from 8 a.m. to 2 a.m. Sunday through Thursday, with hours slightly reduced on weekends.
Personal computers are concentrated in six general-purpose computing labs containing approximately 200 computers (90 percent PCs, 10 percent Macintosh computers) and various software packages for word processing, spreadsheet and database applications, and presentation and programming software. Each lab and classroom computer includes networking software to support Web browsing, Telnet, and FTP, and full access to the Internet. Additionally, there are a variety of classrooms outfitted with computers for teaching and learning, and numerous computing labs dedicated to specific academic disciplines. The new Harrington Learning Commons, Sobrato Technology Center, and Orradre Library contains wired and wireless networks, open computing resources, and more than 30 collaborative workrooms that are fully supported by networking and display technologies.
The University is connected to the Internet through redundant circuits totaling 55 megabits. The connection is openly accessible to all students, faculty, and staff. In addition to the computing labs and classrooms, network jacks are available in the new Harrington Learning Commons, Sobrato Technology Center, and Orradre Library and Benson Center for laptop use. The library provides a full online catalog of its collections and access to many online databases.
The School of Engineering Design Center has a network of more than 120 high-end workstations and terminals grouped into five computer labs. Workstations run HP Unix or Sun Solaris operating systems and are fully networked with Internet access. A state-of-the-art projection system completes the hands-on learning environment. Advanced color printing, scanning, and plotting capability are available throughout the Design Center. All systems have large, high-resolution color monitors and can utilize more than 25 major commercial software packages. Software includes computer-aided design (CAD) and analysis applications for civil, computer, electrical, and mechanical engineering, as well as a variety of programming languages. The Design Center is open and available for students every day from 8 a.m. to midnight throughout the academic year.
Cowell Student Health Center
Cowell Student Health Center offers health services to students. The Health Center also houses the University Counseling Center. Cowell Student Health Center hours are Monday through Wednesday and Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Thursday 9:15 a.m. to 5 p.m., during the time undergraduates are in session. Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. The center is closed during the summer. Call 408-554-4501 for more information.
De Saisset Museum
The de Saisset Museum includes American, European, African, and Oriental art, as well as historically important objects from the early days of Mission Santa Clara. In addition to its permanent collection, it features special exhibitions of traditional, modern, and contemporary art.
The museum is open Tuesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., during regularly scheduled exhibitions. Admission is free. Please call 408-554-4528 before visiting to confirm the schedule.
Harrington Learning Commons, Sobrato Technology Center, and Orradre Library
The University library provides library reference and information services in support of the University’s undergraduate and graduate programs. The new Harrington Learning Commons, Sobrato Technology Center, and Orradre Library facility opened in spring 2008, housing the services, resources, and staffs of the University library, Information Technology, and Media Services.
The new Learning Commons facility contains 30 collaborative workroom spaces, wired and wireless network access, classroom and laboratory facilities, technology training opportunities, and language learning centers. The library’s collection includes more than 786792,000 138 books and bound volumes, almost 600,000 government documents, and more than 841,000 microform units.
The library subscribes to more than 4,400 current serials, including more than 500 titles in electronic format, and is a depository for United States and California government documents. In addition, the library provides access to many other information resources through the Internet and other electronic services.
The online library system OSCAR, is available via the campus network or the Web. Through Link+, SCU students may quickly obtain books owned by a number of other California colleges and universities. Bronco Express, the library’s interlibrary loan/document delivery service, is designed to quickly supply books and copies of articles that are not owned by Santa Clara University or available through Link+. SCU students can make requests for both of these services electronically, using OSCAR.
Students can obtain basic information about the library by visiting www.scu.edu/library, or by using the many helpful printed publications and guides that are available in the library. Library staff can also provide information, answer questions, and assist students in locating and using resources. For more in-depth research advising, individual students or project teams can make advance appointments with a librarian. Instruction in finding, using, and evaluating library and information resources is also incorporated into a number of regularly scheduled classes. In addition, the library provides training on popular computer software programs for students and other members of the University community. To obtain information on current training offerings and to register for classes, students should access the training Web site at www.scu.edu/training.
During the academic year, the library is open seven days a week, for a total of 116 hours. Most books may be checked out to undergraduates for 21 days and to graduate students for 42 days. Course reserve materials are often made available electronically through ERes. Circulation periods for printed reserve materials are limited to two hours, one day (24 hours), three days, or seven days. A student’s current University ID (ACCESS card) serves as a library card and must be presented to borrow materials.
Kids on Campus
Kids on Campus is the University childcare and preschool center for children from the age of six weeks to six years. Children of students, faculty, and staff are eligible for enrollment. The center is a cooperative under the supervision of a volunteer committee of a parent board, with a small staff of paid employees and University students. It is also used occasionally for practicum experiences by students in psychology and education courses. The preschoolers benefit from a program that provides a safe, loving, and creative learning environment that enhances the physical, mental, social, and spiritual growth of each child. Because space is limited, it is recommended that applicants sign up on the waiting list as soon as possible.
Leavey Center
The Leavey Center is a popular multiuse facility that features a 5,000-seat arena. The Leavey Center is named after the founder of Farmers Insurance, the late Thomas E. Leavey, who graduated from Santa Clara University in 1922. The center is the home to the SCU Broncos men’s and women’s basketball and women’s volleyball teams.
Lucas Hall – New State-of-the-Art Business Facility
Santa Clara University's new Lucas Hall facility will give its Leavey School of Business students firsthand experience with leading-edge, 21st-century technology. The three-story, 86,000 square-foot building, named after Silicon Valley venture capitalist Donald L. Lucas, opened in September 2008, and is two and a half times the size of the former business school hub. Lucas Hall contains 12 classrooms, six executive-style conference rooms and 16 team project rooms. All are wirelessly connected and most are high definition, teleconferencing-ready. This Cisco-based networking and telecommunications infrastructure makes enterprise-class technology available to students, faculty, and staff.
The high-definition video and voice technology has made SCU's business school headquarters one of the most technologically advanced in the world. It will enable professors to bring top national and global business leaders into the classroom through crisp, vivid virtual connections and facilitate collaboration with other universities worldwide.
Reflecting Santa Clara University's commitment to green and sustainable building, Lucas Hall was built using national Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) guidelines to reduce energy consumption, and features dozens of energy-efficiency measures.
Pat Malley Fitness and Recreation Center
The Pat Malley Fitness and Recreation Center provides a gathering place for campus fitness enthusiasts of all levels and interests. The 44,000-square-foot Malley Center includes a 9,500-square-foot weight room equipped with state-of-the-art cardiovascular machines, free weights, and weight machines. There are three courts for basketball, volleyball, and badminton. Additional space includes a multipurpose room for aerobic and martial art classes, locker/shower rooms with dry heat sauna, Campus Recreation offices, and the Wellness Program office. In October 2008, the new Sullivan Aquatic Center for lap swimming and water polo opened to the SCU community. A valid ACCESS card or VIP card is required for use of all recreational facilities. Facility hours and campus recreation program information are available at the Malley Center service desk, 408-554-4068.
Louis B. Mayer Theatre
The 500-seat Louis B. Mayer Theatre is designed to provide the traditional proscenium stage common to most theatres, as well as an orchestra pit and thrust elevators that can be raised or lowered electrically. In a remarkably simple procedure, a wall is moved, a few seats are relocated, and the main theatre is reoriented to a new dramatic form that extends the stage into the auditorium so that the audience surrounds the action on three sides.
Mayer Theatre also has a special floor constructed for dance, as well as a large movie screen and film projector.
The Fess Parker Studio Theatre, housed within the Mayer Theatre complex, has no fixed stage or seating. Its black-box design, complete with movable catwalks, provides superb flexibility in an experimental setting.
Media Services
Media Services, which is located in the Harrington Learning Commons, Sobrato Technology Center, and Orradre Library, facilitates the application of media technology and nonprint media resources to support and enhance teaching, learning, scholarship, and administrative services, as well as other campus activities and events.
Media Services offers a broad range of audio, video, and computer services. The office can provide instructional technology such as audiovisual or computer projection equipment to the classroom, create PowerPoint slides, or loan digital cameras (both still and video) for a class project. All faculty, students, and staff have access to equipment and services for class use, class-related projects, and co-curricular use.
The Multimedia Lab in Varsi is equipped for faculty and students to create interactive multimedia projects. Equipment includes an LCD projector, networked laser printer, color scanners, video capture, CD-ROM and DVD burners, and removable storage options (ZIP drives). Software, including Director, Authorware, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Flash, Premiere, iMovie, Fireworks and Firewire, Freehand, and Hyperstudio, is available to support a variety of creative multimedia projects.
Web publishing at Santa Clara University is supported by the Office of Marketing and Communications, Information Services, the University Webmaster and Web applications developer in the Media Services department, and system and network administrators in the Information Technology department.
Mission Santa Clara
The handsomely rebuilt Mission Santa Clara, the sixth mission structure to be constructed under the Santa Clara name, recaptures the appearance of the 1825 church and marks the historic heart of the University. The fifth mission church burned down in 1926, although some of the art and artifacts were preserved. Adjacent to the beautiful Mission Gardens, the church holds regular liturgical and sacramental services and provides an open place for quiet reflection and prayer.
Music and Dance Building
The music and dance facility has a 250-seat recital hall where students, faculty, and guest artists offer a variety of choral and chamber music performances. The music area of the building holds a large rehearsal hall; electronic media lab; library of recordings and scores; and seminar, conference, and practice rooms.
The dance area of the building contains two dance studios for classes, student rehearsals, and performances, as well as dressing rooms and conference space.
Ricard Memorial Observatory
Named after Jerome S. Ricard, S.J., Santa Clara’s Padre of the Rains who was most famous for his sunspot theory of weather forecasting, the observatory was one of the first in Santa Clara Valley. It is not currently used for watching the skies.
Buck Shaw Stadium
Originally built in 1962 for Santa Clara’s varsity football and baseball programs, the 6,400-seat stadium is home to the men’s and women’s soccer programs. The surrounding fields are used as practice facilities for the soccer programs. The stadium regularly hosts NCAA postseason events and was the site of the 1996 NCAA women’s soccer championships.
Stephen Schott Baseball Stadium
The Schott Stadium is the newest addition to Santa Clara University’s athletic facilities. It is named after Stephen Schott, former co-owner of the Oakland A’s and founder of Citation Homes. Schott, who played baseball for the University as a student, graduated in 1960. Home to the Santa Clara baseball team, the stadium has a seating capacity of 1,500.
