Facilities
Shawnee State, located in downtown Portsmouth, has a 52-acre (210,000 m2) campus, featuring 36 buildings, including the Advanced Technology Center (former home of one of only 50 Digistar II planetariums in the world and now home to the first Konica Minolta MediaGlobe II system in the United States), the Clark Memorial Library (which provides access to the 45.5 million items of the OhioLINK libraries' collections), the 102,000-square-foot (9,500 m2) Vern Riffe Center for the Arts, which features an acoustically superior 1,139-seat main theatre and one of only a few functioning Virtual Audio Listening Rooms designed (along with main theater) by George Izenour. Other structures include the James A. Rhodes Athletic Center, which offers a gymnasium that is home to the Shawnee State Bears, weight rooms, racquetball courts, a dance classroom, and a junior Olympic-size swimming pool. A modern University Center, a bookstore operated by Barnes & Noble, and a network of off-campus townhouses for student living are also features of the SSU campus. Up to 1000 students, opting for an on-campus experience, may choose from several newly renovated housing complexes. Due to insufficient planning for the enormous on-campus growth, a significant portion of students currently have to share mailboxes with randomly assigned partners. As of the 2010-2011 school year, the campus has not announced plans to remedy the situation.
Shawnee State’s Children’s Learning Center serves area pre-school children and is a lab school for teacher education students at the university.
The university features a computer network comprising 560 student-accessible computers, all of them under 3 years old, available in 30 labs on campus. The university also offers free Internet services as well as a campus e-mail account to each student, faculty, and staff member. In 2010, University Information Systems (UIS), offloaded email services for students onto the Microsoft Live@EDU infrastructure allowing alumni to retain email accounts after graduation and giving current students access to Microsoft Skydrive and other online resources.
Criticisms of Shawnee State University's computer network include poor wireless network throughput, limited wireless coverage, and bloated student workstations. UIS also requires the Cisco Clean Access client to be installed on personal computers in order to access computer networks with Windows and MacOSX systems.
The Shawnee State University Board of Trustees voted in April 2006 to establish three new centers on campus. The Board established a Teaching and Learning Center, a Women's Center, and a Community Service Center.
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