| The main campus and the offices of administration
of the University of Oklahoma are located on some 3,500 acres in Norman,
a city of 90,000 residents. Norman is located near the center of the state,
20 miles south of Oklahoma City, the state capital. |
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| The colleges housed on the Norman campus
are University College, the College of Architecture, the College of Arts
and Sciences, the Michael F. Price College of Business, the College of
Education, the College of Engineering, the College of Fine Arts, the College
of Geosciences, the Graduate College, the Honors College, the College of
Law, and the College of Liberal Studies. The Norman campus is also headquarters
for the College of Continuing Education, which directs outreach programs
throughout the state and around the world. |
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| The Norman campus consists of three sections
-- central campus, south campus and north campus. Most of the academic
and administrative buildings are located on the central campus, noted for
its Cherokee Gothic architecture and award-winning landscaping. Also situated
on the central campus are the University Residence Halls; the Sarkeys Energy
Center; the University libraries; the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art; Catlett
Music Center; Oklahoma Memorial Union; recreational facilities including
the Huston Huffman Physical Fitness Center and the Murray Case Sells Swim
Complex; the Oklahoma Memorial Stadium and Owen Field; and the Oklahoma
Center for Continuing Education (OCCE), a year-round educational center
and conference site. Located one block east of the central campus is Brandt
Park and the Duck Pond, a park and recreational area used throughout the
year by OU students and Norman residents. Burr Park is conveniently located
near residence halls and other recreational facilities. |
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| Immediately adjacent to central campus
is the south campus, site of the Law Center and OU Foundation; the University
apartments; Lloyd Noble Center and parking complex, the tennis complex;
the Jimmie Austin University of Oklahoma Golf Course; L. Dale Mitchell
Baseball Park; the Women's Softball facility; the Sam Viersen Gymnastics
Center; the University Motor Pool; and OUr Children's World Learning Center.
The Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History will be opened to the
public in 2000. |
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| North campus, which is two miles north
of the main campus, includes the Merrick Computing Center; Max Westheimer
Airpark, the University-operated airport that also serves the city of Norman;
Swearingen Research Park; and a complex of federal, state, private, and
University meteorological agencies including the National Severe Storms
Laboratory, the National Weather Service Forecast Office, the Storm Prediction
Center, and the NEXRAD Operational Test Facility. |
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| Other research and study units of the
University include the Biological Station on Lake Texoma; the Sutton Avian
Research Center in Bartlesville; the Oklahoma Geophysical Observatory at
Leonard near Tulsa; the Aquatic Biology Fisheries Research Center in Noble
near Norman; and the Oklahoma Climatological Survey; the Oklahoma Biological
Survey; the Oklahoma Archaeological Survey; the C.M. Russell Center for
the study of western art; the Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological
Studies, and the Center for the Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS)
in Norman. In addition, the Oklahoma Geological Survey is a separate state
agency located on the Norman campus and responsible to the University of
Oklahoma Regents.'' |
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| Quoted from the General
Catalog of the University of Oklahoma, 1999-2001. |
