| NORMAN CAMPUS |
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| 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 Gaylord College
of Journalism and Mass Communication, 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, a year-round educational center and conference
site. Located one block east of the central campus is Brandt Park and the
Duck Pond, a recreational area used throughout the year by OU students
and Norman residents. David A. 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 Headington Family
OU Tennis Center; the Jimmie Austin University of Oklahoma Golf Course;
L. Dale Mitchell Baseball Park; the John Crain Soccer Field; 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, also located on the south campus, opened to
the public in 2000. |
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| North campus, which is two miles north
of the central campus, includes the Merrick Computing Center; Max Westheimer
Airpark, the University-operated airport that also serves the city of Norman;
University of Oklahoma Research Campus-North; 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; the Oklahoma Climatological Survey; the Oklahoma Biological
Survey; the Oklahoma Archaeological Survey; the Charles M. Russell Center
for the Study of Art in the American West; the Cooperative Institute for
Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS), 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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| HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER |
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| The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences
Center is the state's major educational resource for training physicians,
dentists, nurses, pharmacists, public health specialists and a wide range
of allied health personnel. |
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| The center is one of only four comprehensive
health centers in the nation with seven health professional colleges: the
College of Allied Health, College of Dentistry, College of Medicine, College
of Nursing, College of Pharmacy, the College of Public Health and the Graduate
College. |
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| Faculty and students use the clinical,
laboratory and teaching facilities at OU MEDICAL CENTER, Veterans Administration
Medical Center, Dean A. McGee Eye Institute, Oklahoma State Department
of Health, Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, other affiliated hospitals
in Oklahoma City, the major teaching hospitals in Tulsa, the Veterans Administration
Hospital in Muskogee and various affiliated hospitals and clinics in other
locations in Oklahoma. |
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| TULSA |
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| The University of Oklahoma - Tulsa is
composed of the Schusterman Center, where the majority of OU programs serving
Tulsa are located; the OU/OSU Research and Graduate Education Center, a
collaborative effort to provide graduate education and research programs
to the Tulsa metropolitan area; and several clinics and hospitals. |
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| The Schusterman Center, located at 41st
Street and Yale Avenue, dramatically enhances OU's presence in Tulsa and
expands its educational, research and patient care programs for the community.
Programs in OU's colleges of Allied Health, Arts and Sciences, Continuing
Education, Engineering, Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, Public Health and
the Graduate College are located at the center. Programs in the College
of Architecture and other degree programs are expected to move to the Schusterman
Center by fall 2002. |
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| COLLEGE OF CONTINUING EDUCATION |
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| The College of Continuing Education provides
academic outreach opportunities to the state, region and nation. As the
administrative unit for outreach at the University of Oklahoma, continuing
education programs are the means by which the University extends its resources
to the people of Oklahoma and beyond. By encompassing comprehensive, multidisciplinary
academic services and programs that focus on the needs of adult learners,
the College of Continuing Education offers both credit and non-credit courses,
seminars, workshops, conferences, correspondence study, public service
activities, and travel/study programs. The diversity and quality of the
services available through continuing education programs provide an exciting
and challenging academic experience. |
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| Quoted from the General
Catalog of the University of Oklahoma, 2001-2003. |
