Siena College - Campus

Campus

The college is an suburban campus taking up 174 acres (70 ha) at the northern edge of Loudonville. The campus includes:

• Siena Hall

The main college building, housing classrooms and administrator and faculty offices. The cupola at the top is used as the symbol of the college, appearing on the college logo and most printed and web material.

• J. Spencer and Patricia Standish Library

Built in 1999, it has space for 400,000 volumes, seating for 700 readers, networking for 500 computer connections, 100 computer work stations, an audio-visual center, an archive and special collections suite, 11 group study rooms, 16 faculty carrels, and training laboratory and demonstration classrooms.

• Roger Bacon Hall

Houses the School of Science offices and classrooms as well as the Psychology Department.

• Morrell Science Center

Attached to Roger Bacon Hall and built in 2001, it houses the chemistry, biochemistry and biology departments.

• Kiernan Hall

Classrooms and faculty offices. Notable for the design: the first floor consist of two sections separated by an outdoor walkway, with the second floor bridging the two sections.

• Foy Hall

Home to the creative arts department, campus theatre and studio of Siena College Television.

• Marcelle Athletic Complex

Athletic offices and facilities.

• Sarazen Student Union

Houses the post office, campus radio station, Student Affairs office, student government offices, the Pepsi Cafe, O'Leary's Pub, Pandini's, and the Sub Connection.

• There are eight residential living areas on campus: Cushing Village (4 or 6 person townhouses), Hennepin Hall (6 story traditional dorm building), Hines Hall (5 story traditional dorm building), MacClosky Square (6 or 8 person townhouses), Padua Hall (traditional dorm building, second newest hall on campus), Plassmann Hall, Ryan Hall (exclusively for Freshmen), and the New Hall, which was just built in 2010 and has not yet been named. The residence halls tend to be concentrated in the middle of campus and at the southern end while the townhouse residences are concentrated along the northern edge of campus off Fiddlers Lane and were at first controversial with the neighboring Newtonville community. When the first townhouses were proposed the Newtonville Homeowners Association unsuccessfully sued to block construction. Subsequent construction has not been controversial thanks to the town board including the Newtonville Homeowners Association in the decision making process.

Siena College, due to United States Army funding, was forced to shut down their ROTC program, on campus. Current enrolled Cadets are now required to travel to other schools in the region, in order to continue participation in the Reserved Officer Training Corps.