The university's 480-acre campus includes 55 major
facilities highlighted by well-landscaped malls and attractive, park-like
settings.Plans are finalizing for constructing a new
Education Building on the CMU campus. The new 134,500-square-foot facility will be technology-rich, energy efficient,
and conducive to interpersonal activity, social learning, professional role
modeling, and team building. Groundbreaking is scheduled for spring 2007
The new
Health
Professions Building unites CMU's respected health care programs in one
technologically advanced environment that is conducive to learning, treatment,
collaboration and discovery.
Opened in 2002,
Theunissen Stadium is one of the finest baseball facilities in the Midwest.
Nearly 6,000 students live in CMU's 22
residence
halls, which are among the nicest in the nation. Five new residence halls,
Fabiano, Celani, Campbell, Kesseler, and Kulhavi, 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 CMU libraries' $50 million library project has transformed
Charles V. Park library into an
electronically supported 21st century information center. The new library
has nearly three times as much seating space, an array of new
technology-based services and resources and space for up to 1.3 million
print volumes.
Clarke Historical Library, which is
housed in Charles V. Park library, holds a renowned collection
of 88,000 items related to Michigan and the Old Northwest.
Kelly/Shorts
Stadium was enlarged and a new
Indoor
Athletic Complex was opened in 1999, providing additional seating for fans
and conditioning space and equipment for athletes. The IAC features a weight
and conditioning center, track and 100-yard Astroturf field.
CMU's new high-tech
music
building is considered one of the finest in the Midwest.
CMU's state-of-the-art 175,000 square-foot
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.
The
Industrial
and Engineering Technology Building and the
Dow
Science Building house a number of state-of-the-art laboratories to teach
electronics, robotics, manufacturing systems, graphic arts, photograph,
chemistry and other science- and engineering-related programs.
The CMU Biological
Station is located on 45 acres of pristine habitat on the sandy
eastern shore of Beaver Island, northern Lake Michigan. The Biological Station
offers a diversity of academic courses -- not just biology -- during the spring
and summer months, and provides research facilities throughout the year.
Additionally, Central Michigan University owns a 230 acre
natural area on the southwest side of Beaver Island known as Miller's Marsh.
This tract of land serves a variety of field courses offered at the station by
providing a highly diverse site for field trips, research and other activities.