CAMPUS FACILITIES

Located on its own 240-acre island, the University features modern classroom buildings, support facilities, and student apartments. Surrounded by the waters of Corpus Christi and Oso Bays, the campus is approximately ten miles from downtown Corpus Christi.

The Mary and Jeff Bell Library houses a collection of approximately 350,000 books, bound periodicals, microforms and state and federal documents. The Library subscribes to over 1,600 periodical titles, provides electronic access to library resources, has a strong media collection and has major collections of South Texas books and archival materials.

Librarians are available to assist individuals in locating, using, and evaluating information sources as they work on assignments and/or do research. Librarians are also available to instruct classes in the information sources of specific subject areas. Entering freshmen and all new students receive an orientation to and a tour of the Library as part of their introduction to the campus. Services and resources are reviewed regularly to meet changing curricular demands and to support new and developing academic programs.

The Library is committed to providing an interconnected and productive electronic environment to help students in their search for information. This includes an integrated system of library automation. An online catalog is accessible from computer workstations located throughout the Library, the campus network, and from off-campus.

The Library provides access to over 150 electronic databases that are mounted on the campus network. These databases provide indexing and abstracting access to many of the periodicals titles in the Library's collections as well as full text access to over 1,000 periodicals. Internet access is available through all workstations at the library.

The Library Media Center provides access to the Library's collection of instructional media and audiovisual playback equipment. These materials are available for use within the Library Media Center. Screening rooms and media carrels are available in the Media Center for student and faculty use of the various media formats. Also available are computer workstations for student use in the production of multi-media programs. The State Adopted Textbook Collection, which includes curriculum guides, serves as a laboratory facility for students in the teacher education program. The Special Collections & Archives Department houses a collection of rare books and archives dealing chiefly with the life, history and culture of South Texas, and other books and manuscripts that require special housing and handling. These materials are available to individual students, student classes, and researchers under special and appropriate conditions within the Department.

In order to augment the resources available locally to faculty and students, the Library actively participates in national, state, and regional networks, commercial information services, area library compacts and interlibrary loan arrangements that provide both information about and access to materials not available in the Library. Through a TexShare program, students and faculty have access to and borrowing privileges at other academic libraries in Texas. Borrowing from and use of these libraries is governed by the policies and procedures of these libraries.

Also located in the Bell Library are the Tutoring and Learning Center, Center for Teaching Excellence, and Texas Art Archives.

Computing resources for students include laboratory classrooms housing over 300 work stations. Seven of the laboratories are Intel based systems; four are Macintosh based; and one is DEC Alpha RISC-UNIX based. Most laboratories are open over 90 hours per week. They are staffed with student laboratory assistants. The student network servers are equipped to provide a wide range of software applications including a variety of word processors, spreadsheets, graphics programs, e-mail, programming languages, and specialized software applications which support individual classes. Students have full access to the Internet from the laboratories and through telephone modem banks.

The Student Services Center is the round building near the center of campus. In this one location, a prospective student can complete all the steps necessary to be admitted to the University. This one-stop location houses the offices of Admissions, the Registrar, Financial Assistance, the Bursar, the University Core Curriculum Program, the Academic Testing Center, and other units serving students.

The Center for Instruction is a multipurpose teaching facility. It houses a 275-seat lecture hall, a 225-seat lecture hall, ten 60-seat lecture halls, and two 35-seat classrooms. In addition there are six science laboratories, a social science laboratory and four computer laboratories. The third floor houses faculty offices, conference rooms and seminar rooms. Most of the teaching areas include state-of-the-art audio-video and computer equipment.

This building includes classrooms, auditoriums, laboratories and faculty office-labs for the disciplines of biology, chemistry, geology, medical technology, environmental science and nursing. Specialized areas include a greenhouse, aquariums, and collection rooms.

The Center for the Arts houses general and special purpose facilities for students of art, communications, music, theatre and TV-film. In addition to regular class and seminar rooms, the Center includes art studios, TV-film facilities, music ensemble and individual practice rooms, Warren Theatre (a 275 seat, continental-style auditorium), the Wilson Studio Theatre (an experimental theatre), and the Weil Gallery.

This multifunction facility houses a number of general purpose classrooms, a 112-seat auditorium, the University's computer center, specialized instructional areas, a study lounge area, and administrative offices.

The Glasscock Center houses a food court, campus post office, branch bank, automatic teller machine, games room, convenience store, commons area, meeting room, and big-screen television. Additionally, the University Bookstore, the gift shop, and a convenience store are located here. In 1999, many of these facilities will move to the new University Center.

The University Center is scheduled to open in spring 1999. The new center will contain facilities for student activities and student services, expanded food services and commons areas, the University Bookstore and several other shops, meeting spaces, entertainment areas, and study areas.

This facility houses research laboratories, a conference center and administrative offices. The Institute provides a nucleus from which faculty and students work with leading professionals and researchers in the areas of continuing education and professional development for surveyors, science education and surveying related research.

The Moody Sustainers Fieldhouse and Gymnasium

Includes a full-size gym with locker and dressing facilities, a weight room, and four racquetball/handball courts. Adjacent to the gym are six lighted tennis courts, a practice court, a 25-meter swimming pool and lighted playing fields.

houses University programs and state agencies focusing on natural resources and the environment.

serves as a public school for area children and as a university teaching laboratory and research center. Children attending the school are selected from a stratified random sample.

Other facilities on campus include the Faculty Center (housing the offices of the college deans), the Dr. Héctor P. García Plaza, the Physical Plant, and buildings housing administrative support offices.