2007-2008 Grace University Catalog

Our Facilities

Grace University is a compact urban campus in beautiful Omaha, Nebraska. Our Campus is located approximately two blocks from the historical downtown business district. The campus covers approximately six city blocks in the historic Dahlman Association neighborhood and is only nine blocks from the Botanical Gardens. The Campus is approximately halfway between the Old Market in downtown and the Henry Doorly Zoo and Rosenblatt Stadium (home of the NCAA College World Series). The section “Our Past” in this section of the catalog describes the development of the campus. This urban campus has seen over $11,000,000 in new construction, remodeling and renovation upgrades during the past five years.

Currently, the campus has 185 dormitory rooms for students within Harder Hall, Rieger Hall, Stanford Hall and Schmidt Hall, modern classrooms of various sizes, the campus library within the Tschetter Academic Center, learning labs for computer usage and music, and curriculum labs for teacher education, and church education, Suckau Chapel, the Dirks Student Lounge, the Duerksen Dining Commons, administrative and faculty offices, and green space and parking areas. The Jim Classen gymnasium, with double NCAA approved courts for tournament play and seating for 800, was dedicated in August, 2003.

The Library has a collection of over 62,000 volumes and over 230 current periodical subscriptions in hard copy and over 6,600 journal titles with full-text articles in online subscription databases. The library’s electronic resources includes access to Britannica Online, FirstSearch databases, EBSCO’s Academic Search Elite, Wilson Web, and the premier indexes in the fields of religion, education and psychology. The Library’s collection includes over 7,000 e-books from Netlibrary. The Library shares an online catalog with the Nebraska Independent College Library Consortium which results in having over 750,000 volumes plus additional periodical journals available via interlibrary loan. There are 14 networked, computer workstations in the library for students to use as well as a wireless connection which allows access to web-based and CD-ROM databases, email, word processing, and general internet access. The Library provides systematic instruction on information literacy (research skills) which is integrated into the undergraduate curriculum, and provided to new graduate students via an online class. You may visit the library’s homepage at www.graceuniversity.edu/4309.htm.

Email and Internet access are available to all faculty and students through GraceNET, the University network.  Access to GraceNET is available in any of our three computer labs as well as every classroom, office and dormitory room.  The University has invested heavily in providing a fast and stable network to serve the community of learners academically and administratively.  The Grace University Department of Information Services provides network, computer, telecommunications and helpdesk services to meet the ever-changing needs of our University community.  The University also maintains a Microsoft software license allowing all faculty, staff and students common access to current license versions on school and private computers.