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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 still 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.
Campus Parking
Parking is allowed only upon issue of a permit from the Office of Safety and Security, open at times convenient for graduate students. Students must present a current student ID card, driver’s license, automobile registration, and proof of automobile insurance. All cars must be registered with the Office of Safety and Security. Strict ticketing and driving rules are enforced.
NOTE: While display of a campus parking permit allows a student access to designated parking areas, the availability of a parking space is not guaranteed. Students may have to park on adjacent streets, as city parking codes allow.
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, Phillips Memorial Library, Ruane Center for the Humanities, St. Catherine of Siena Hall, Smith Center for the Arts, Sowa Hall, and Sullivan Hall.
Disabilities Services and Policies
The College’s ADA/Section 504 Coordinators are available to facilitate students’ access to College facilities, programs, and activities. Students with physical or medical disabilities may qualify for reasonable accommodations coordinated by Student Affairs (Slavin Center); students with learning-related disabilities may qualify for reasonable accommodations coordinated by the Office of Academic Services (Phillips Memorial Library). Please visit http://www.providence.edu/academic-services/Pages/default.aspx for more information. The College provides these services in compliance with Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended by the Americans with Disabilities Amendment Act of 2008, and Rhode Island law. Student procedures for ADA/504 Grievance Resolution are available at: http://www.providence.edu/ACADEMIC-SERVICES/services/Pages/disability.aspx.
Technology Classrooms/Facilities
Classrooms at Providence College are furnished with networked computers, laptop connections, digital projectors, and the latest in audio and video equipment. Many have interactive whiteboards or Apple TV devices to allow faculty and students to annotate presentations. Wireless connectivity is available in all classrooms, and some rooms have power available at each student desk.
Technology facilities are located in buildings across the campus. Accinno Hall houses the College’s main Information Technology department and four computer laboratories. Additional computer labs for PC faculty, staff, and students are found in Albertus Magnus Hall, Howley Hall, and Koffler Hall. The TecHub, a combination IT and library Help Desk, is located in the lower level of the Phillips Memorial Library.
Technology Resources
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 online. They can view address and personal information, mid-term and final grades, all financial aid and billing information on their accounts, view and request academic transcripts, and monitor progress toward completion of their degree requirements.
With Sakai, the learning management system used by many PC faculty members, students can communicate with their instructors, participate in online discussion groups, check course syllabi, submit assignments, check grades throughout the semester, and efficiently manage their class work. In addition, faculty have access to personal response systems to ask questions in class and display feedback immediately for students to see, wiki software for student collaborative coursework, and video editing stations. Students have access to high-end Macintosh computers equipped with video and audio editing software to complete multimedia course assignments and extracurricular video projects.
Students can also utilize iHelp at http://www.providence.edu/ihelp. This site integrates the efforts of the Information Technology Help Desk, the Phillips Memorial Library, Academic Media Services, and the Instructional Technology Development Program.
The College also has a mobile application that can be downloaded for free for iPhone, BlackBerry, or Android mobile devices. It provides on demand access to important information including CyberFriar, Sakai, campus events, news, maps, and directory information.
Please refer to http://www.providence.edu/it/Pages/policy-information.aspx for detailed information on the usage policy for Information Technology Resources. In addition, visit http://www.providence.edu/ihelp/Pages/default.aspx for detailed information on technology resources and assistance that are available to faculty, staff, and students.
Phillips Memorial Library
The Phillips Memorial Library is at the heart of the College’s intellectual life. Much of the architecturally impressive facility, which was built in 1969, has been recently renovated.
The library maintains a collection of approximately 386,000 print volumes, nearly one million eBooks, 500 print periodical subscriptions, and more than 52,000 full text-electronic journals. The library also offers an extensive collection of print and electronic research/reference materials, including 120+ bibliographic and full-text electronic databases, the third largest collection of electronic databases in Rhode Island (after Brown University and the University of Rhode Island). In addition, the library houses the Providence College Special and Archival Collections, the Office of Academic Services, and the core of the College’s iHelp integrated services group.
The library is a member of the HELIN (Higher Education Library Information Network) consortium, which gives students access to over six million volumes from any of nine collegiate libraries in Rhode Island, Wheaton College in Massachusetts, and most of the other Rhode Island libraries. In addition, the library’s interlibrary loan service connects students and faculty to worldwide resources.
The Phillips Memorial Library has been redone in the “Commons” tradition. The library offers: 125 public access computers; robust digitization resources; 38 laptops (PC & Mac) and more than 25 iPads with Web access for student check-out; a full array of iMac-based productivity and multimedia software (Adobe CS) in the MediaHub; collaborative space for 75 in the TecHub; technology assistance at the TechStation; multifunctional, technology-rich space in the InterHub, the Ruane-Library connector; as well as three instructional rooms for 75 and an 18-workstation electronic classroom. The Phillips Memorial Library accommodates approximately 850 patrons in technology-rich, quiet, group-study and instructional areas and offers faculty collaborative research, study, instructional development, and meeting resources in the Faculty Commons.
For more information, including library hours, call 401.865.2242 or visit their Web site www.providence.edu/library.
Center for Career Education & Professional Development
The Center for Career Education & Professional Development (www.providence.edu/career-education-center), located in Slavin 108, offers many career development resources for graduate students including: resume/cover letter writing, interviewing, and networking guides/videos; self-assessment and career exploration tools; eFriars for job and internship listings and many more. Graduate students can also take advantage of scheduling individual advising appointments with our Graduate Student Advisor by calling 401.865.1290.
Smith Center for the Arts
This 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 Smith Center also includes several general use classrooms that serve both undergraduate and graduate courses. 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, the O’Hurley Rehearsal Room, 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.
Slavin Center
Slavin Center, the student union, is one of the main hubs of the Providence College campus. It is open 24 hours a day during the academic year and is home to the College’s many student clubs and organizations. It also houses a variety of offices and facilities that provide services to students, including the Offices of Residence Life, Off-Campus Living, Student Activities, Cultural Education and Programming, the Providence College Bookstore managed by Barnes and Noble, a branch of Santander Bank, an ATM machine, the Career Education Center, and Dunkin’ Donuts. Additionally, it offers numerous meeting rooms and comfortable lounge space. The Alumni Hall Food Court and McPhail’s Entertainment Facility, which is open seven days a week and hosts events throughout the academic year, are accessed through the lower level of Slavin Center.
Bookstore
The bookstore is located in the lower level of Slavin Center. Textbook ordering information is available to students in compliance with the federal Higher Education Act (2008). Please visit the College’s bookstore Web site to view a listing of required and/or optional textbooks for courses: www.providence.bncollege.com. Faculty will submit textbook information to the College bookstore as materials are identified and retain the right to change book orders at any time. As good practice, students should carefully evaluate all suppliers of course materials, including refund policies and shipping charges. It is recommended that students check the Providence College bookstore Web site prior to the start of the semester for any changes to course materials. Store contact information and updated store hours are available online, via email pcbook@providence.edu, or by calling 401.865.2181.
Dining Services
There are a variety of places where graduate students can dine on campus. The Alumni Hall Food Court, accessed from the lower level of the Slavin Center, is where most graduate students gather. Full meals may also be purchased at Raymond Dining Hall. Other dining operations include Dunkin’ Donuts, located in the lower level of Slavin Center, the Friar Buyer C-store, located in the lower level of Davis Hall, and a coffee shop in the Ruane Center for the Humanities. Menus and hours of operation for all these establishments may be found at https://pcdining.sodexomyway.com.
Concannon Fitness Center
Full-time graduate students may purchase membership to the state-of-the-art Concannon Fitness Center for a nominal fee of $50 per semester.
Campus Chapels
Providence College encourages the spiritual as well as the intellectual growth of each student. St. Dominic Chapel and the Campus Ministry Center are the center of spiritual life on campus. Additional chapels are located in Harkins Hall and in the St. Thomas Aquinas Priory-Gragnani Dominican Center, the principal Dominican residence on campus, and the oratory in Siena Hall.
Center for Catholic and Dominican Studies
The Center for Catholic and Dominican Studies is located in the former Aquinas Chapel, opposite St. Dominic Chapel. Administratively, the Center serves under the auspices of the Office of Mission and Ministry and, in collaboration with the Office of the Chaplain/Campus Ministry, it assists in coordinating the college wide process of maintaining, enhancing, and promoting the distinctive mission of Providence College as a Catholic and Dominican college.
Believing that we are transformed by God’s grace so that we might help change the society around us, the Center serves as a place of intellectual exploration and dialogue where students, faculty, staff, administration, and alumni can gather for study, discussion, and reflection on the ministry shared by all God’s children.
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.
Safety and Security
The Office of Safety and Security operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week, year-round. The principal objective of the office is to safeguard members of the College community and to protect private and institutional property on campus. As a service organization, the security department attempts to contribute to the smooth functioning of College community life by stressing the importance of crime prevention, the individual’s obligation to take necessary precautions, the cooperation of each member of the College community to safeguard personal and College property, and the care that must be taken to comply with fire regulations. The Annual Security and Fire Safety Report is available at the security office and online.
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