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Towson University 1 lab, a dance studio theatre, four dance studios, a collaborative interdisciplinary Appendix A: Campus lab, and the Asian Arts and Culture Center, which displays the university’s extensive Asian art collection. Facilities HAWKINS HALL Part of a three-building complex, it houses the Elementary, Secondary and ACADEMIC BUILDINGS Early Childhood Education departments, as well as the departments of Educational Technology and Literacy, Special Education, and Instructional STEPHENS HALL Leadership and Professional Development. Named for former president Earle This distinctive Jacobean building, constructed in 1914, has long been a T. Hawkins, it also houses the Education Technology Center. landmark in the Baltimore area. Departmental and faculty offices as well as classrooms and laboratories of the College of Business and Economics and PSYCHOLOGY BUILDING the Honors College are housed in this building. A 733-seat theater capable of Part of the three-building complex that contains Hawkins Hall. Former home to supporting light opera, dance, and musicals is also located in Stephens Hall. the Department of Psychology. VAN BOKKELEN HALL COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS BUILDING A classroom building for departments that include Mass Communication and Fully opened for fall 2011, the CLA Building is home Towson’s largest college, Communication Studies and Electronic Media and Film, this facility contains the College of Liberal Arts, which includes 10 departments and a variety of therapy rooms for speech-language pathology and audiology majors, as well interdisciplinary programs. as a digital cinema, home to film screenings and media festivals. LECTURE HALL SMITH HALL Part of the three-building complex that contains Hawkins Hall and the First occupied in 1965, the building was expanded in 1976 to 223,285 square Psychology Building, it houses the Academic Advising Center. feet to house the departments of Biological Sciences, Chemistry, and Physics, Astronomy and Geosciences. Included are a state-of-the-art Nanotechnology Center, plant growth chambers, greenhouses, reach-in environmental OTHER BUILDINGS chambers, an aquarium room with an aquatron, and controlled environmental UNIVERSITY UNION animal rooms, in addition to various classrooms and class laboratories. The Watson-King Planetarium is on the top floor. The three-story University Union is the social hub of the campus. Educational, cultural and social programs at the Union are designed to appeal to the entire LINTHICUM HALL campus community. The Union’s services and facilities include a full-service post office, the University Store, the Ticket Office, Cash Office, Auxiliary Houses the departments of Nursing, Interprofessional Health Studies, and Services Business Office, Paws Cyber Cafe, Art Services, Auxiliary Services Health Science. It contains a newly renovated classrooms and laboratory administrative offices, a full-service bank and two ATMs, dining facilities, SGA spaces. offices, Information Desk, Event and Conferences Services, Student Activities, Campus Ministries, Women’s Resources, an art gallery, African American TOWSON SPORTS COMPLEX Student Development, Orientation and New Student Programs, SAGE, The The 24-acre sports complex includes the Towson Center Arena, the 11,000- Towerlight student newspaper office, and Tiger Reels video rental. seat Johnny Unitas Stadium, Minnegan Field, tennis courts with lighting, and separate fields for football, lacrosse, soccer, field hockey and softball. The WEST VILLAGE COMMONS Towson Center Arena seats 5,000 people for athletic events, concerts and West Village Commons is a four-story, 86,000-square foot, mixed-use student lectures. The Kinesiology and Athletics departments are located in the Towson service facility supporting the residential population in the West Village Center. The building also has classrooms, a research laboratory, a curriculum precinct. center, student and faculty lounges, indoor archery and golf ranges, weight rooms, training areas and facilities, fencing, wrestling and gymnastic rooms, ADMINISTRATION BUILDING open teaching areas, locker rooms, team rooms, a fitness center, handball courts and squash courts. Located at 7720 York Road, this building houses most of the executive and administrative offices of the university including the Office of Graduate Studies. ALBERT S. COOK LIBRARY 7800 YORK ROAD Built in 1969, the five-story library contains more than 570,000 volumes, 840,000 microform units and more than 5,600 periodical subscriptions. The This building is the home of University Admissions. It also houses the Learning Commons on the library’s main floor provides 170 computer work Career Center, the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, the stations as well as nine group study areas, each equipped with computers Department of Mathematics, the Center for Geographic Information Services, for collaborative work. The Computing Services Help Center is located on the and other facilities. ground floor. DOWELL HEALTH CENTER MEDIA CENTER The Dowell Health Center is an outpatient primary health care clinic with an This building houses journalism labs, the campus radio station, XTSR-FM, the experienced staff of physicians, nurse practitioners, physician’s campus TV station, WMJF-TV, and digital media production labs. assistants, nurses and health educators. All registered students, including part- time and graduate students, are eligible to use health center services. CENTER FOR THE ARTS Renovated in 2005, this building houses the departments of Art, Dance, Music and Theatre Arts, as well as four theatres, the Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall, a music recital hall, the Holtzman Art Gallery, an MFA Gallery, a digital object 2 Appendix A: Campus Facilities ENROLLMENT SERVICES CENTER This building houses student services including the Office of the Registrar, Financial Aid, the Bursar’s Office, and the Department of Occupational Therapy and Occupational Science. THE BURKSHIRE AT TOWSON UNIVERSITY Adjacent to campus is an 18-story apartment community for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students. GLEN ESK The Counseling Center, which provides a variety of counseling and psychological services to students, faculty and staff, is housed here..