Campus and Facilities
The University's 480-acre main campus has 55 major facilities in an attractive park-like setting. The newly constructed $50 million Education and Human Services Building opened in the summer of 2009. The 134,500 square-foot facility is technology-rich, energy efficient, and conducive to interpersonal activity. The Herbert H. and Grace A. Dow College of Health Professions is housed in a state of the art building completed in 2003. Other academic additions to the physical campus in the last ten years include a music building, and a $50 million addition and renovation of the library that incorporates the latest information technology. The Student Activity Center provides space and equipment for everything from aquatics to weight lifting, jogging, bowling, billiards, racquetball, table tennis, basketball, volleyball and various other leisure activities.
Nearly 6,000 students live in CMU's 22 residence halls. Five new residence halls have opened since 2003, providing students with apartment-style living. Each hall complex includes an academic adviser's office, a 24-hour computer lab and a fitness center. Residence hall suites have separate bedrooms, study areas and bathrooms. Individual rooms are wired for high-speed internet access. The entire campus is linked by a high-speed wireless network and the majority of classrooms are mediated as the result of a multi-million dollar investment in information technology.
CMU also operates a biological station on Beaver Island, which is unique among North American biological stations because its insular location provides access to truly exceptional freshwater ecosystems within the Great Lakes basin. The Biological Station offers a diversity of academic courses during the spring and summer months, and provides research facilities throughout the year.