Focusing Resources on Excellence: Investments in the Campus Environment
Our strategic plan calls for building, renovating, enhancing, or expanding facilities to make the Santa Clara campus even more conducive to learning.
The New Learning Commons, Technology Center, and Library: $80 million
Today's new libraries are everything generations of Santa Clara students remember - and more. The new SCU library will house books, scholarly journals, reference desks, and students studying for exams. But modern libraries must also be wired and wireless-enabled, with computer stations and study areas for break-out groups, Internet sources, and a professional staff to support technology-enhanced study. At more than 194,000 gross square feet - including a café - Santa Clara's new library is destined to become a hub of intellectual activity on campus.
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| Model of the Leavey School of Business |
Leavey School of Business: $40 million
We will create a new 86,000 square foot business school that will enhance learning at the undergraduate and MBA levels. By design, the facility will support creative collaborations critical to business success in today's world. Among its features: wired classrooms, wireless capability, videoconferencing space, seminar-sized rooms for student teams, and flexible classrooms to support spontaneous brainstorming or role-playing exercises.
Leavey Center: $29 million
Renovations include 23-foot-high glass walls, a new floor and bleachers, and a suspended electronic scoreboard. The fully-renovated Leavey Center will boost Santa Clara team pride and provide scholar-athletes with a modern showcase for their talents. Campaign gifts will expand the Center's seating capacity, add weight rooms for women and men athletes in training, and develop 25,000 square feet of office space for the athletic department.
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| Drawing of Schott Baseball Stadium |
Baseball Stadium $8 million
Our athletic teams play with commitment, intensity, and focus. The university's baseball stadium with lights, press box, and amenities will create an environment that supports competitive excellence while encouraging students and other fans to enjoy the teams' successes.
New Jesuit Residence: $12 million
When students live in campus residences, their opportunities for growth extend beyond the classroom, creating deeper bonds with each other and with the university. Our goal is to enable 75 percent of undergraduate students to live on campus. Building a new Jesuit residence will permit SCU to return centrally located Nobili Hall, now a Jesuit Community residence, to university purposes.
Law School Expansion: $4 million
Santa Clara's law school is renowned for bringing the Jesuit values of competence, conscience, and compassion to bear in the legal profession. The school maintains a nationally recognized program in intellectual property law, has been honored for its achievements in diversity enrollment and bar passage rates, and recently inaugurated its High Tech Law Institute. Our campaign goals include expanding the existing Law School and remodeling the Bannan Hall facility.
 | Bob Finocchio '73 seated
with Brandi Chastain '91 | Bob Finnochio's Dream for Santa Clara Board of Trustees member and retired corporate CEO, Bob Finocchio's dream for Santa Clara is a library that gives students and faculty the tools, resources, and inspiration to explore, discover, innovate, and achieve; and a business school that equips students with the technical competence, effective interpersonal skills, and strategic thinking abilty required to lead in today's business environment. |
