The 108-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
All Graduate and School of Continuing Education students, as well as visiting, practitioner, and adjunct faculty members, are eligible to park on campus at no cost, but only after applying for and receiving a parking sticker. Parking stickers are valid for the academic school year. Parking and operating a motor vehicle, on the Providence College campus, is a privilege, not a right, and constitutes acceptance by the individual of the responsibility to ensure that his or her vehicle is neither parked nor operated in violation of any of the College regulations. A parking sticker allows a student to park on campus but does not guarantee a parking space.
All Graduate and School of Continuing Education students, as well as visiting, practitioner, and adjunct faculty members, are able to register online for parking stickers for the academic year. Stickers will be mailed to the home address specified on the application. All mandatory fields must be completed so that the application process can successfully proceed. There is no charge for a parking sticker. Applicants should print and retain the voucher (final page in application process) for their records.
Stickers must be placed on the lower left part of the driver’s side windshield. The sticker is not to be removed or transferred. A replacement sticker may be obtained for a newly purchased vehicle or a replacement windshield at the Office of Safety and Security.
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, Sullivan Hall, as well as the newly constructed Science Complex addition.
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/disability-accommodations 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 can be found in the Student Handbook, available at http://www.providence.edu/student-affairs/Pages/student-handbook.aspx.
Technology Classrooms/Facilities
Nearly all of the College’s general use classrooms are equipped with multimedia technologies. Our classrooms have the latest in audio, visual, computer, and Web connectivity to enhance the instructional environment. Accinno Hall houses four computer laboratories. Additional computer labs are found in Albertus Magnus Hall, Howley Hall, the Ryan Center for Business Studies, and the new Science Complex addition.
Technology Resources
Providence College is focused on providing anytime-anywhere access to information. With CyberFriar, the main Web interface with the College’s administrative database, students can manage their personal and academic records from their desktops, laptops, or mobile devices. They can register for courses, view address and personal information, access 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 Sakai, a learning management system used in nearly all undergraduate courses, students have another way to communicate with faculty members, participate in online discussion groups, check course syllabi, submit assignments, and efficiently manage their classwork.
Providence College’s mobile app includes information on courses (login required), directory information, campus events, library resources, interactive campus maps, athletics, dining, transportation, and laundry facilities, among others. Students have access, at no additional cost, to Microsoft Office, Adobe Creative Cloud Suite, and collaborative applications such as Zoom and Microsoft Teams.
Phillips Memorial Library
The Phillips Memorial Library is at the heart of the College’s intellectual life, during its 116 hours of operation per week, and the main areas of the library are architecturally impressive and recently renovated.
The library maintains a collection of approximately 286,700 print volumes and provides access to over 1 million electronic books, available online from anywhere in the world. Patrons have access to approximately 240 current print periodical subscriptions and more than 58,815 full-text electronic journals. The library also offers an extensive collection of print and electronic reference materials, including more than 135 bibliographic and full-text electronic databases, the third-largest research 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 on the second floor, and the core of the College’s iHelp integrated services group (Information Technology User Services and Academic Media Services) on the library’s lower level.
The library is a member of the HELIN (Higher Education Library Information Network) consortium, which gives students and faculty two-day access to millions of volumes from libraries in Rhode Island and the region. In addition, the library’s interlibrary loan service connects students to worldwide resources free of charge.
The Phillips Memorial Library provides robust access to the College’s wireless network. In the Library Commons tradition, the library offers 159 public access Windows and Macintosh desktop and laptop computers, sophisticated digitization and multimedia processing resources in Digital Publishing Services and MediaHub Laboratory, a large inventory of iPads with Web access for check-out, collaboration facilities and technology support in the lower-level TecHub, and an extensive array of productivity software, as well as an 18-computer electronic classroom. The InterHub connects the library to the Ruane Center for the Humanities and provides refreshments, robust wireless access, and seating for 36 patrons, color printing, and five desktop computers beginning at 6:00 AM on weekdays. The library accommodates approximately 1,000 students in quiet and group-study areas.
For more information, including library hours, call 401.865.2242 or visit the Library Web site.
Center for Career Education and Professional Development
The Center (https://career-education-center.providence.edu), located in Slavin 108, offers many resources for graduate students: resume/cover letters, interviewing, networking, self-assessment, and career exploration tools. Additionally, we have Handshake for job and internship listings and FriarLink for networking with PC alumni. Students can also take advantage of scheduling appointments with our coaching team through Handshake.
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. The store carries all of the required course materials for classes, as well as a large assortment of Providence College merchandise, school supplies, and snacks. Place orders through our website (www.providence.bncollege.com), or simply stop by the Bookstore. Questions and comments should be directed to pcbook@providence.edu, or by phone at 401.865.2181.
Dining Services
There are a variety of places where graduate students can dine on campus, no matter the class location. Eaton Street Café, located in the Ryan Center for business studies is open seven days a week, Eaton Street offers a grill, grab-and-go options, Starbucks coffee, and a Sandella’s with paninis, quesadillas, burritos, rice bowls, and flatbread sandwiches that are low-fat, trans-fat free and low calorie. Alumni Hall Food Court, accessed from the lower level of the Slavin Center, has a variety of options including York Street Deli, Fresh Fusion Asian cuisine, a grill, and a pizza option as well as a full salad bar. Graduate students looking for a variety of options can purchase a meal at dining’s all-you-care-to-eat location, Raymond Hall Dining. Open seven days a week, students can pick and choose from a variety of options, including comfort foods, vegetarian, full salad bar, deli, pizza, grill, and dessert. Other dining operations include Dunkin’ Donuts, located in the lower level of Slavin Center, and a Starbucks located in the Ruane Center for the Humanities. Menus and hours of operation for all these establishments can be found at https://pcdining.sodexomyway.com.
Concannon Fitness Center
Full-time graduate students may purchase a 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.
The Office of Public Safety
The Office of Public Safety provides service to the campus community 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. The Office strives to ensure that members of the College community learn, work, and live in safe and secure environments. Members of the community share this responsibility and are expected to help the Office of Public Safety identify and report behavior that constitutes a violation of College policy and/or criminal law, and to take reasonable safety precautions. Providence College’s Annual Security and Fire Safety Report is available online.
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