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Academic Catalog | Campus Facilities

Campus Facilities

Dean’s attractively landscaped 100-acre campus features both modern and traditional buildings. These include a variety of residence options, dance studios, a swimming pool, three athletic fields, and eight tennis courts in addition to the following facilities:

Campus Center

The Campus Center, which won a national award for its design, houses the Office of Student Development, The Center for Academic Support Services, the SUFFOLK/DEAN office, classrooms, music practice rooms, the bookstore, student post office, a multipurpose room, game room, dining room, Boomer’s Cafe, and SGA Study Lounge. It is the hub of campus life.

SUFFOLK/DEAN Office

Located on the lower level of the Campus Center, the SUFFOLK/DEAN Office provides all administrative and academic services for students enrolled in the SUFFOLK/DEAN Program.

Louis A. R. Pieri Gymnasium

This gymnasium is the site for all physical education classes and for competition basketball and volleyball. An attached building houses the fitness center, a second gymnasium, and the athletic training room. The area also houses faculty offices.

E. Ross Anderson Library

The E. Ross Anderson Library, which received a national award for its design, is an essential resource center for both students and faculty. The library has a collection of over 42,000 books, 150 periodical subscriptions, and hundreds of videos, DVDs, and compact discs. The library also provides access to more than 20 research databases, including resources from InfoTrac, Lexis-Nexis, Gale Group, SIRS, and ProQuest. Computers are available for students to do research on the Internet.

The library is a member of the Minuteman Library Network, a consortium of 41 public and academic libraries in eastern Massachusetts. The consortium maintains a computerized catalog of all items owned by the member libraries. Once students have registered at the Dean College library, they are able to request and borrow materials from any other Minuteman library, including the nearby Franklin Public Library. For hard-to-find items, the inter-library loan department can request materials from libraries across the country.

The staff of the library maintains a website that provides campus-wide access to the Minuteman catalog and several research databases. Professional librarians are available to answer questions and assist students with their research needs.

The Robert F. Lucey Center for Technology and Training is also located in the library.

Dean Hall

Dean Hall contains administrative and faculty offices, classrooms, Marvin Chapel, and facilities for the Communications Department, which include the College radio station: WGAO-FM; and the Telecommunications Center.

Telecommunications Center

Located in Dean Hall, the well-equipped Telecommunications Center features a spacious master control room, a four-camera television studio, two post-production editing suites, four high-tech audio studios, and a classroom.

Center for the Performing Arts

The Center for Performing Arts features a blackbox theatre, an area for set construction, a dance studio and faculty offices. Most student theatre productions and dance concerts take place at the Center for Performing Arts.

Arthur W. Peirce Technology and Science Center

Located in the Peirce Technology and Science Center are biology, chemistry, and physics laboratories; classrooms; faculty offices; the Media Center; the Technology Center; computer labs; and the Information Technology Department.

Technology Center

Located in the Peirce Technology and Science Center, the Technology Center houses 80 Gateway personal computers with multimedia capabilities. All run Windows 2000 and all have the Microsoft XP suite of products in addition to a variety of educational software packages and programming languages. All computer labs are networked with access to all of the College’s network resources as well as the Internet. Staff are available for students who need assistance with computing. Repair of student computers is offered as a service at an additional fee per incident.

PUTNAM/DEAN Pathway

Located adjacent to Chapman House, the Putnam/Dean Pathway facility is the site of a Putnam Investments mutual fund account data transaction support group. Full-time and part-time Dean students may apply for employment at the Center.

The Robert F. Lucey Center for Technology and Training

The Robert F. Lucey Center for Technology and Training is located on the first floor of the campus library. The Center, supported through a gift by Putnam Investments, includes two state of the art technology-based teaching and learning classrooms. The Lucey Center provides an environment where a wide range of technology training and education programs, classes, seminars and workshops are offered.