Academic Facilities

Champlain believes in a practical, hands-on approach to learning — a philosophy reflected in the remarkable array of campus resources and facilities available to students.

S.D. Ireland Family Center for Global Business and Technology

This $10 million facility was built in 2004 to enable the College to put students to work on business and technology-related challenges for Vermont companies and non-profits. Resources include:

• fully wired and wireless classrooms featuring interactive whiteboards and the latest multimedia software and equipment
• Mac G5 computer classrooms and a multimedia design classroom with open development stations to facilitate teamwork and interactive learning
• multimedia suites where Champlain students can create innovative print, interactive, 3D and video graphic solutions using top-of-the-line visual and audio equipment
• international business resource center and conference rooms

Miller Information Commons

The Robert E. and Holly D. Miller Information Commons holds all the resources of a traditional library, as well as:

• fully networked computers, multimedia labs and private study rooms
• video-conferencing centers and electronic resources
• online work stations that provide access to subscription service research sources such as Lexis-Nexis and JSTOR
• wireless computer networking
• PC computer classroom

Hauke Family Campus Center

Hauke houses classrooms, a photo lab and darkroom, and art and drafting classrooms. A fiber-optic computer network that links faculty, staff and students throughout campus includes more than 260 PCs for student use.

Foster Hall

Foster is Champlain’s central computer support building. Students have access to PC and Mac computer classrooms and a fully networked computer lab.