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The 105-acre campus of Providence College, situated in Rhode Island’s capital city, is removed from the traffic and noise of the metropolitan area but remains close to the many cultural and educational offerings of Providence, a city that is enjoying a lively urban renaissance. The city is located only an hour’s drive from Boston and just a few hours’ drive from New York City. Interstate bus, train, and air transportation are conveniently available.
The Providence College campus provides a variety of living, learning, and recreational facilities in an environment that promotes students’ academic and personal growth, as well as their safety and security. A campus shuttle bus provides transportation from campus to adjacent neighborhoods and locations in downtown Providence. Students may access the city of Providence and the entire state by utilizing the Rhode Island Public Transportation Authority (RIPTA) free of charge by showing their student identification card. For more information, please visit www.providence.edu and click on Student+Life > Living+at+PC >Transportation Services.
For a virtual tour of the campus, please go to www.providence.edu and click on “virtual tour.”
Academic Facilities
Classroom and laboratory facilities are found in Accinno Hall, Albertus Magnus Hall, the Ceramics Building, the Feinstein Academic Center, Harkins Hall (also the main administration building), Hickey Hall, Howley Hall, Hunt-Cavanagh Hall, Koffler Hall, Moore Hall (which serves as the center for the Development of Western Civilization Program), Phillips Memorial Library, St. Catherine of Siena Hall, Smith Center for the Arts, Sowa Hall, and Sullivan Hall. To view PC’s academic buildings, go to www.providence.edu and click on About PC > Campus Buildings > Academic.
Smith Center for the Arts
This 2 1/2-story building serves as the premier teaching and performance facility for undergraduates enrolled in performing arts courses or participating in extracurricular activities involving music, theatre, and dance. The primary performance venues are the 283-seat Angell Blackfriars Theatre and the 272-seat Ryan Concert Hall. Teaching spaces include a “black box” studio theatre, the Bowab Studio Theatre; the Higgins Clark Dance Studio; a 20-keyboard piano lab; a film-screening classroom; a music library; and choral and instrumental practice rooms. The building also contains the Reilly Art Gallery, as well as offices, conference rooms, and storage areas for the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Film and the Department of Music. For more information, go to www.providence.edu and click on About PC > Campus Buildings > Academic on the PC Web site.
Technology Classrooms/Facilities
Providence College continues to increase the number of its SMART™ and multimedia classrooms. These classrooms have the latest in audio, visual, computer, and Web connectivity to enhance the instructional environment.
Technology facilities are located in buildings across the campus. Accinno Hall houses the College’s Department of Information Technology and four computer laboratories. Additional computer labs for PC faculty, staff, and students are found in Albertus Magnus Hall, Howley Hall, and Koffler Hall. For more information about computer technology at PC, go to www.providence.edu and click on Academics > Technology Resources > Computer Labs.
Desktop Technology
Providence College is focused on providing anytime-anywhere access to information. With CyberFriar, the main Web system that interfaces with the College’s administrative database, students can manage their personal and academic records from their desktops or laptops. They can register for courses, view address and personal information, view mid-term and final grades, view all financial aid and billing information on their accounts, view and request academic transcripts, and monitor their progress toward completion of their degree requirements.
With ANGEL, a course management system used by many PC faculty members, students have another way to communicate with faculty members, participate in online discussion groups, check course syllabi, submit papers, and efficiently manage their class work.
For more information about CyberFriar and ANGEL (A New Global Environment for Learning), go to www.providence.edu and click on Academics > Technology Resources.
Athletics & Recreational Facilities
Joe Mullaney Gymnasium in Alumni Hall, Schneider Arena, Peterson Recreation Center, an artificial-turf field, and various other outdoor playing fields provide the focus for both intercollegiate and intramural athletics on campus. The Dunkin’ Donuts Center, with a seating capacity of 12,993, serves as the home court for the men’s basketball team. For more information about athletics facilities at Providence College, go to www.providence.edu and click on About PC > Campus Buildings > Athletic/Recreational.
Recreational facilities are also found in Slavin Center, PC’s student union, which houses McPhail’s Entertainment Facility and the entrance to the Alumni Hall Food Court. Those facilities, plus various lounges and club rooms, offer students places to relax between classes or to study with friends. For more information about Slavin Center, go to www.providence.edu and click on About PC > Campus Buildings > Administrative.
Concannon Fitness Center
The Concannon Fitness Center is a 23,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility that serves the fitness needs and well-being of students, student-athletes, faculty, and staff. Opened and dedicated in fall 2007, the center specializes in cardiovascular and strength training. The center offers 13,850 square feet of dedicated fitness space on two levels for use by the general College community and a 3,600-square-foot varsity weight room for student-athletes.
Balfour Center for Multicultural Affairs
Originally designated as the Office for Minority Student Affairs in 1988, the Balfour Center for Multicultural Affairs provides multicultural education resources and intercultural programs. The center is a support service on diversity issues for students, staff, administrators, faculty, and neighboring communities. It maintains a clippings library, ethnocentric and race-centric periodicals, as well as texts, video, and audio tapes on various aspects of multicultural life. These resources are available on loan for research as part of the center’s mission to educate. Throughout the year the Balfour Center plans and co-sponsors several campuswide events, speakers, training workshops, and seminars.
In December 1993, the L.G. Balfour Foundation granted funding to Providence College for the continuation and enhancement of its existing minority education programs. The center was subsequently rededicated and renamed on February 2, 1994, and is the site of the Multicultural Scholarship Program office. Several scholarships are part of the program. The Martin Luther King Scholarship Program and the Cunningham Southeast Asian Scholarship Program are the two oldest scholarship programs serving this population.
Located in Harkins Hall, Room 310, the Balfour Center is an intercultural department that works to serve all of the College community. Inquiries may be directed to the dean of multicultural affairs by calling 401.865.2738.
Campus Chapels
Providence College encourages the spiritual and intellectual growth of each student. St. Dominic Chapel and the Campus Ministry Center are the center of spiritual life on campus. Additional places of prayer are the Chapel of Our Lady of the Rosary in the St. Thomas Aquinas Priory-Gragnani Dominican Center, the principal Dominican residence on campus, and the oratories in Harkins and Siena halls.
Center for Catholic and Dominican Studies
The Center for Catholic and Dominican Studies is located in the former Aquinas Chapel. Administratively, the center is part of the Office of Mission and Ministry and, in collaboration with the Office of the Chaplain/Campus Ministry, it assists in coordinating the collegewide process of maintaining, enhancing, and promoting the distinctive mission of Providence College as a Catholic and Dominican college.
Believing that we are called to be transformed so that we may transform society, the center serves as a place of intellectual exploration and dialogue where students, faculty, staff, administration, and alumni can gather for study, discussion, reflection, and service.
Through a variety of events and educational opportunities for the College community, the center strives to share the richness and diversity of the Catholic and Dominican intellectual and spiritual traditions, which offer crucial perspectives for today’s challenges and concerns and invite us together to partake of and benefit from a common mission inspired by faith and enabled by grace.
Phillips Memorial Library
The Phillips Memorial Library is at the heart of the College’s intellectual life, and the main area of the library is architecturally impressive.
The library maintains a collection of approximately 375,000 volumes and approximately 1,600 current periodical subscriptions and has access to more than 37,000 full-text electronic journals. The library also offers an extensive collection of print and electronic reference materials, including more than 120 bibliographic and full-text electronic databases, the second largest collection of electronic databases in Rhode Island (after Brown University). Patrons also have access to approximately 250,000 federal and Rhode Island state government documents in paper and microform. In addition, the library houses the Providence College Special and Archival Collections, several academic departments, and the Office of Academic Services.
The library is a member of the HELIN (Higher Education Library Information Network) consortium, which gives students access to over 5 million materials from any of eight collegiate libraries in Rhode Island. In addition, the library’s interlibrary loan service connects students to worldwide resources.
The Phillips Memorial Library provides access to the College’s wireless network. In the Library Commons tradition, the library offers 75 public access computers, sophisticated digitization resources in Digital Services and Macintosh labs throughout the library, 32 laptops with Web access (for student check-out), a presentation rehearsal/recording room, and an array of productivity software, as well as an electronic classroom. The library accommodates approximately 600 students in quiet and group-study areas.
For more information, including library hours, call 401.865.2242 or go to www.providence.edu and click on Academics > Phillips Memorial Library.
Residential Facilities
Campus residential facilities include traditional dormitory housing as well as suite and apartment-style units. These facilities accommodate approximately 3,100 students. For further information about residential life, go to www.providence.edu and click on Student Life > Living at PC > On-Campus Residence Living.
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