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Facilities
| Art Galleries |
The Hayward campus enjoys two exhibition spaces (the University Art Gallery and the Student Gallery) which make it possible to mount shows of varying size and significance.
The University Art Gallery is 2820 square feet of exhibition space. Located in AE 106, the Gallery has one person shows, group shows and student shows in a variety of media. An adjoining courtyard is available to display outdoor sculpture. Admission to the University Art Gallery is free. The student gallery, located in AE 274, is a more intimate space. Throughout the year, students present their works for short exhibitions. The days and hours of these shows vary and are also admission free.
| Bookstore |
The Pioneer Bookstore at California State University Hayward is located between the Library and the University Union, across the street from Warren Hall. The Bookstore's mission is to provide course materials required and recommended by CSUH instructors, and other products to support and enhance students' academic endeavors.
Course materials are on the second floor. On the first floor, the store offers CSUH logo clothing and gifts, electronics, educationally-discounted computer software, computer supplies, school and office supplies, testing materials and study guides, general books, greeting cards, used-book buyback services, University Catalogs and Class Schedules, art supplies, a convenience store, a full-service U.S. Post Office, and a branch of Cal State 9 Credit Union.
See the Pioneer Bookstore's website for current hours and general information at: www.bookstore.csuhayward.edu. You may also call the Bookstore at 510-885-3507 for information on special hours and holidays, or if you have other questions.
| Business and Economics Special Facilities |
The College of Business and Economics offers tutorial assistance for Accounting classes. There is also a Student Learning Center and Video Lab in MB 2505, a Student Computer Center in MB 2515, and an administrative Student Service Center in MB 2525.
| Computing, Communication, and Media Support |
The university provides support for the technology needs of the campus community primarily through the Media and Technology Services Division (MATS) of Information and Computing Services (ICS). This unit provides support and facilities to faculty, staff, and students through specific Service Centers.
The Administrative Service Center (ATSC), located in Warren Hall 363, provides desktop support and workshops and/or training for staff and administrators in selected university-specific enterprise computer applications.
The Classroom Service Center (CSC), located in the Library, room 1105, provides support for faculty classroom presentation needs and includes: two-way compressed video distance learning support; video-conferencing; classroom equipment delivery and maintenance; engineering and installation; analog and digital video distribution systems; consultation on equipment purchases; satellite teleconferencing; and Smart Classroom and multimedia classroom design and maintenance.
The Instructional Technology Service Center (ITSC), in the Library, room 2196, provides support for faculty presentation needs and facilitates their use of all forms of instructional technology in the classroom and on the Internet. Some of the services provided by the ITSC are multimedia production, consultation with individual faculty on computer applications and presentation equipment, coordination of campus-wide technology funding initiatives and software distribution programs, online education (Blackboard) and internet delivered instruction, curriculum server and streaming media technologies, and digital video and television editing and production.
The Student Technology Service Center (STSC), located in the basement of Warren Hall, B53, provides and maintains student accessed central computing labs, media production facilities, and a laptop loaner program for financially eligible students.
A central Help Desk is available to all members of the campus community who have questions regarding computing software, hardware and network communications and can be reached by calling 885-H-E-L-P (4357).
| Early Childhood Education Center |
The Early Childhood Education Center (ECEC) is located on-campus, next to the Art and Education Building, and provides child care for infants, toddlers, and preschool children of students, faculty, staff, and the community. The ECEC is funded through a partnership between the Associated Students, Inc. (a non-profit auxiliary of Cal State Hayward); Child, Family and Community Services, Inc. (the grantee agency for the Southern Alameda Head Start program); and Cal State Hayward's College of Education and Allied Studies.
The ECEC is a state-of-the-art facility with high quality innovative programs and developmentally appropriate activities provided in a safe, nurturing, and supportive environment. This State-licensed center offers both a relaxed family atmosphere and a stimulating educational program under the supervision of a paid professional staff supplemented by volunteers from many departments on campus. Some parental participation is required.
Services provided by the ECEC are free to children and parents who meet the eligibility criteria established by Head Start and State Preschool regulations. A current fee schedule is available for parents who do not meet federal or state eligibility requirements.
For additional information and registration procedures, call the Early Childhood Education Center at (510) 885-2480. Space is limited and early inquiry is recommended.
| Language Laboratory |
The Language Laboratory is a facility of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures. It presently consists of a single room with 30 student carrels equipped with audiocassette recorders connected to a Tandberg IS-10 control console. The control console has a programmable remote control that allows faculty to run as many as four taped programs simultaneously and to monitor and intercommunicate with individual students. The system can transfer programs to student cassette recorders at high speed. Students can interact with the audio program, recording responses and playing them back for comparison and correction. The lab also has several computer workstations as well as VCRs and TV monitors for viewing videotapes.
The Language Laboratory has audio-and videotape collections of instructional programs in the languages currently taught, including American Sign Language. The Lab is located in ST 100 directly opposite the University Union.
| Library |
The library holds over 915,000 items of print materials, including books, journals, scores, maps, and U.S. federal and California state government documents. In addition, there are 880,000 microform items and 30,000 media resources. The library maintains over 2,500 print serials subscriptions, some of which offer free on-line access to electronic versions. This electronic information supplements the library's many electronic databases that provide access to over 4,400 full-text journals online, as well as electronic books. General access to electronic information is available to all users within the building; remote access is available to CSUH faculty, registered students, and staff at http://www.library.csuhayward.edu. The university also maintains a branch library at its Contra Costa Campus. The branch has full access to the main library's resources.
Library materials are arranged on open shelves, except for Special Collections, Archives, reserves, and media, which can be requested through the library's services desks. Individual carrels, tables, lounge furniture, and group study rooms are available for study. To check out library materials, borrowers must present a current, valid Cal State Hayward photo ID at the Circulation Desk. The photo ID serves as the user's library card and is non-transferable.
Other facilities include photocopiers, the library/GIS laboratory classroom, and several rooms for the use of students with disabilities. These rooms contain special equipment for the visually impaired. The library's Upper Mall houses group and individual listening and viewing stations along with videos, music books, scores, and sound recordings. In the Reference area on the Lower Mall, as well as on the Upper Mall, microcomputer workstations provide electronic access to bibliographic, statistical, and full-text databases in business, psychology, medicine, education, public affairs, science, ethnic studies, current news and events, and the humanities and social sciences.
The library's web page (http://www.library.csuhayward.edu) provides a link to HAYSTAC, the Hayward State Automated Catalog, which itemizes the library's collection. The library's website is the portal for the library's many electronic resources and also serves as a gateway to remote electronic catalogs, including MELVYL (the catalog of the University of California libraries). Instructions for connecting may be obtained in the Reference area of the library or on the library's web page under "off-campus library resources."
Information, reference assistance, and instruction in the use of library resources and services are available from library faculty at the Reference Desk in the Lower Mall. Librarians are also available by appointment and during scheduled office hours for individual help with library research. Also available through the website are chat and e-mail reference services. Chat reference, known as 24/7, is available round-the-clock and provides interactive reference assistance with a librarian from a participating library.
To acquaint users with the library, a self-guided walking tour is available at the Circulation Desk. The library also offers LIBY 1010 "Fundamentals of Information Literacy," a course which satisfies the General Education Information Literacy requirement. In addition, the library offers LIBY 1551 "Information Skills in the Electronic Age," LIBY 2000 "Interdisciplinary Applications of Geographic Information Systems," and LIBY 3200 "Discipline Based Information Research." (See the Library chapter in the undergraduate programs section of this catalog for course descriptions and further information.) Subject-oriented lectures and demonstrations are given to classes at faculty request, and Internet and research skills workshops are scheduled every quarter. The library's website also lists a full range of services for students enrolled in online/distance education classes.
A mutual use agreement covering all CSU libraries enables Cal State Hayward students to borrow materials from any of the libraries within the CSU system by using their current Cal State Hayward photo ID card. Faculty, students, and staff may also use the Cal State Hayward library's interlibrary loan and document delivery services (ILL) to obtain materials which are not owned by this library.
| Marine Laboratories |
Instruction in marine biology, geology, oceanography, and other marine sciences is offered at the Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in conjunction with five other cooperating California State Universities. Full-time course offerings are available for resident credit and the facilities are used to supplement courses taught on the Cal State Hayward campus. The laboratories are located 82 miles south of Hayward on Monterey Bay, and some classes are taught in Salinas. See the Marine Sciences chapters in this catalog for further details and for courses offered at Moss Landing, as well as information on the M.S. program in Marine Science.
| Museum of Anthropology |
The Clarence E. Smith Museum of Anthropology was established in 1974 and opened its exhibition gallery in 1979. Chartered as a teaching museum for the instruction of museology in an anthropological context, the Museum is named in honor of the late Professor Clarence Smith of the Department of Anthropology. Professor Smith recognized the advantage of demonstrating tangibly, in art and artifact, both human diversity and the range of human achievement throughout the world. Efforts are made to represent both traditional cultural forms and their contemporary expressions and influences. In the forefront of the Museum's repertory are exhibits designed to illustrate all aspects of human culture from around the world, features of culture change, and technological as well as biological evolution.
The exhibition galleries of the Museum are located in the southeast corner of the fourth floor of Meiklejohn Hall on the Cal State Hayward campus. They are open to the public, Monday through Friday, and by appointment; admission is free. Access to the collections is limited to qualified professionals and students whose scholarly research requires direct examination of the Museum's holdings. Consult with the Museum's collection manager for a current list of artifacts held. The staff and director's office is located on the first floor (1017) of Meiklejohn Hall. Consultations are given by appointment. For information on exhibits and appointments, call the Museum at (510) 885-3104 or (510) 885-3168, Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
| Parking Facilities |
Campus parking facilities are available to students who have purchased parking permits. Quarterly permits may be purchased by mail during the registration process, on-campus at the Cashier's Office in the lobby of Warren Hall, and in the Contra Costa Campus Academic Services lobby. Several parking lots contain parking permit dispensers from which a "Day Permit" may be purchased. In addition, there are a several metered spaces available on campus. See campus map inside back cover for location of parking facilities.
| Science Facilities |
The College of Science is housed in a modern 201,000-square-foot science building which includes many specialized teaching laboratories, general purpose personal computers, and specialized computing facilities.
The Departments of Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Engineering, Geological Sciences, Nursing/Health Sciences, Physics, and Psychology each maintain a number of well-equipped laboratories for undergraduate instruction. Laboratory classes are limited to 24, 20, 16, or 12 students, depending on the subject matter.
In addition to the normal complement of laboratory equipment, students in the Biological Sciences have access to a cell culture facility, light and electron microscopes equipped with digital image capture, an array of electronic equipment for recording quantitative data, microcomputers, and field equipment, including boats. Other special facilities include a radiation lab; temperature controlled plant growth chambers; an herbarium; a greenhouse; an insectory; two animal rooms for housing animals; an aquatic animal room for keeping live fish, amphibians, and invertebrates; and museums of vertebrate, invertebrate, and entomological specimens. The wetlands field station is located on southern San Francisco Bay on part of the National Wildlife Refuge.
The Department of Chemistry maintains laboratory equipment and instruments typical of comparable institutions. These include UV, infrared and visible (diode array) and atomic absorption (AA: flame, graphite furnace and cold vapor) spectrophotometers; high performance liquid chromatograph (HPLC) and ion chromatograph (IC); NMR and FTIR spectrometers; and capillary gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer (GC/MS). Other specialized equipment includes a research-grade dry box, growth chamber, anaerobic chamber, and environmental field sampling equipment. There are PC-controlled and various desktop versions of the HPLC and visible spectrometers; all other instruments besides the NMR are PC-controlled. The AA, HPLC, IC and GC/MS are all available online so that students can spend extensive one-on-one time with the instruments. A molecular modeling facility is also available for instruction and research.
The Department of Engineering maintains a laboratory with 24 state-of-the-art computers equipped with the latest industrial engineering software such as Pro-Model simulation software, and AUTOCAD for computer-aided design. Equipment includes a computer-controlled turning center and machining center, two robotics arms, a hardness tester, an engineering microscope, a tensile testing machine, a torsion testing machine, a specimen grinder/polisher, a plastics processing machine, and MTS material testing equipment. The laboratory is used in a variety of courses such as systems simulation, manufacturing automation, facilities planning, and computer graphics. In the laboratory, students also receive training in various manufacturing processes for metals and plastics.
The Department of Geological Sciences is equipped with modern research and field instruments including an atomic absorption spectrophotometer; gas chromatograph; X-ray fluorescence spectroscope; cathodoluminescence; X-ray diffractometer; petrographic and ore microscopes; geophysical apparatus for seismic refraction, ground penetrating radar, resistivity, magnetic, and gravity surveys. Field equipment includes a portable kitchen and other supplies necessary for the summer field camp and a small power boat with sampling equipment for shallow water studies. Laboratories are equipped for sediment analysis, thin-section preparation, and photomicrography. The department also has large collections of minerals, rocks, fossils, and maps.
Students in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science have access to a wide variety of modern computing equipment. This includes networks of Sun Ultra Sparc workstations, Linux workstations, and computers with Intel architectures. Many computers have multiple operating systems. Departmental resources include classrooms and labs for demonstrations equipped with computer projection devices. Computer labs are staffed to provide helpful productive student access; the general access lab is ADA compliant. The university provides an advanced ethernet network backbone connecting hundreds of computers to the Internet.
In the Nursing Skills Lab, nursing students practice in a simulated health care setting under the guidance of the Skills Lab Coordinator. This prepares them to move into local hospitals and community health agencies for their clinical patient/client experience.
Students in Physics have access to instruments appropriate to the discipline, including a 2m-Ebert mound spectrograph, electron-spin-resonance apparatus, a multi-channel analyzer for nuclear radiation studies, equipment for projects that require lasers or holography, a very high resolution Doppler-free saturated absorption spectrometer, and an optic fiber transmission line. Instruments can be fabricated for students with other areas of interest.
The Department of Psychology maintains laboratories and equipment for conducting student research in development, personality, social psychology, industrial psychology, physiological psychology, perception, conditioning, and cognition. These laboratories include facilities for the study of humans and small animals. The Psychology department also maintains a computer lab for use by students and faculty.
A computer lab, funded originally by the National Science Foundation, is equipped primarily for instruction of Statistics majors and minors, but is available for use by students in other areas as well. The laboratory has 20 personal computers networked to servers with professional statistical software and data sets. Both hardware and software are state-of-the-art. Applied and theoretical statistics classes use the lab for demonstrations of statistical computing and for class projects in which students learn practical data analytic skills that aid them in the transition from school to work.
Some rooms in the science building have also been set aside to function as computer centers. The Science Computer Lab is a 36 station lab with all the software needed by science students to do their homework. The flex classroom, Science South 149, is wired for students to bring laptops to use in the classroom.
| University Union |
The University Union is the community center for Cal State Hayward providing services, facilities, and programs to meet the various social, recreational, and cultural needs of the students, faculty, staff, and community.
Campus food service, a game room, lounges, Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) service, meeting rooms, a television lounge, a Sundries/Information center, Copy Center, UU Exhibit Area, multipurpose rooms, and offices of the student government (Associated Students) are some of the service facilities housed in the modern and fully-furnished building. The Pioneer Chuckwagon (located at the PE Building Snack Bar) offers additional food service on campus. Food service and a student lounge are provided at the Contra Costa Campus.
A variety of programs is planned by the AS/UU Programs Department throughout the year to meet the cultural, social, and entertainment needs of the Cal State Hayward community.
All policies and procedures of the University Union are determined by a 10-member board of directors.
Reservation Procedures
Reservations may be made by telephone (510-885-3902) or in person at the University Union Office, Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Organizations that have access to the University Union facilities include university-recognized student organizations, academic and administrative departments, Cal State Hayward-affiliated groups, and off-campus groups.
All recognized Cal State Hayward student organizations may make tentative reservations directly, with confirmation pending approval obtained through the Student Life Programs Office. Academic/administrative/service departments can make reservations directly. The Union facilities shall not be used for regular academic classes. Deviation from this policy requires approval from the dean of the college concerned and the University Union Board of Directors.
Groups not directly affiliated with the university should make reservations directly with the Building Operations Coordinator and will be required to pay all charges and fees associated with their planned event prior to the event.
Room Rental Fees
Rental fees will be levied according to the University Union room rental fee structure. If special services (i.e., technical support, catering, special equipment) are requested, the University Union will levy the charge appropriate for the service requested. Set-up fees may be assessed for use of the University Union when the sponsor requires set-ups beyond those normally provided.
A-V Equipment
Audio-visual equipment is available upon request at the time of reservation. Slide projectors, screens, overhead projectors, a cassette player, P.A. systems, and VCR monitors are available.
Catering
All food and beverages served in the University Union must be provided through the University Union Food Service. Catering arrangements can be made directly through the Food Service Office (510-885-2510). Refer to a catering brochure for menu selection, prices, and procedures. Menus and estimated group size must be submitted within two weeks of the event with final guest count within 48 hours of the event.
Cancellations
The policy of notifying the University Union Scheduling Coordinator of cancellations enables the Union to meet the growing demand for space. Organizations are encouraged to make reservations as early as possible. Groups that frequently violate the cancellation policy will not have the opportunity to continue reserving space. Appeals can be directed to the University Union Executive Director.
Banners/Posters
Recognized Student Organizations, Associated Students, and university departments may place banners announcing events on one of four (4) designated banner spaces on the South balcony. Banner space is available for a maximum of one week on a first-come, first-served basis and must be reserved through the University Union Building Operations Coordinator at 885-3902.
Posting flyers and posters is limited to bulletin board space. For specific poster policy, contact the University Union Administrative Office at University Union 301.
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