Services and Facilities

For more information about any of the services below, visit www.sjfc.edu.

Dining Services

Fisher Dining Services offers several options for dining on campus. All venues accept board meal plans, Cardinal Cash, cash, and major credit cards. Current hours of operation, menus, monthly newsletters, and calendars are posted on the dining services website.

The two main dining locations on campus are Ward-Haffey Dining Hall and Murphy Dining Hall. Ward-Haffey Dining Hall is open seven days a week and offers dine-in “all-you-care-to-eat” meals. Murphy Dining Hall is open five days a week and offers dine-in “all-you-care-to-eat” breakfast and dinner.

Located in the Golisano Gateway, Cyber Café offers Starbucks coffees, fresh baked pastries, hot breakfast sandwiches, Grab & Go salads and sandwiches, soups, snacks, and desserts.  Cyber Café is open five days a week.

Located in Michaelhouse,  Cardinal Café offers a variety of Grab & Go foods with healthy eating in mind, paninis, smoothies, and fresh baked goods to compliment Starbucks Coffees. Cardinal Café is open for late night seven days a week. The Fishbowl, also located in Michaelhouse, offers the perfect place to hang out with friends and enjoy a burger, fries, milkshake, or sandwich. Fishbowl is open 7 days a week.

The Pioch Commons Café offers a convenient Grab & Go location featuring Finger Lakes Coffees, and favorites from Cyber and Cardinal Cafés. Open five days a week.

Information Technology

Computer Labs

Computer labs across campus offer access to a variety of software, including productivity and academic applications, and a variety of hardware, including PCs, printers, and scanners. The Kearney Academic Computing Lab is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week via card-swipe access when the College is open. Hours are posted in the open area of the lab.

Service Desk

The OIT Service Desk, located in the basement of Kearney Hall with a satellite desk in Lavery Library, is the primary contact for all support issues and service requests. In-addition to walk-up assistance, the Service Desk provides 24/7 phone support for issues such as password resets and account access. Current hours are posted on the OIT website.

Library

The Charles J. Lavery Library offers a blend of traditional and electronic resources available to the Fisher community. The library’s print collection is complemented by an extensive offering of online scholarly resources. Information resources include 300,000 volumes and access to approximately 50,000 print and electronic periodical titles. The library provides a variety of study venues. Individual and group study areas, a computer lab, and a floor designated for quiet study make the library a popular spot on campus for research, meetings, and instruction. It is also a great place to relax with comfortable furniture; popular books, magazines, and DVDs.

The Learning Commons within the library enables students to conduct research and produce projects in one location, steps away from a Help Desk staffed by technology students and librarians. Students have access to PC workstations, Macintosh multimedia workstations, and group workstations.

Geared toward educators and pre-service educators at all levels, the K-12 Resource Center occupies 1,250 square feet on the lower level of Lavery Library. The Center simulates the typical K-12 school library, and offers a range of fiction, non-fiction, school textbooks, and lesson-planning resources all aligned with New York state standards. Ample work space, combined with ready access to materials and the professional assistance of the Education Librarian, provides an ideal environment for project and lesson development.

Math/Computer Science Help Center

The Math/Computer Science Help Center, located on the third floor of the Academic Gateway, offers free one-on-one and group instruction by peer tutors. The Center is open on a daily, walk-in basis Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Friday, 9 a.m. to noon. College networked computers provide access to the Internet, as well as to many software applications used in various current mathematics, science, and computer science courses. The Center provides an ideal place for individual and collaborative study with expert help close at hand.

Nursing Learning Resource Center

The Nursing Learning Resource Center provides students with hands-on experiences to learn technical, assessment, and critical thinking skills that prepare them for the competencies required for patient care in clinical practice sites. The facility contains two major nursing laboratories. The Nursing Skills Lab is an undergraduate skills laboratory with equipment, supplies, and medium fidelity simulation mannequins for practice of technical skills in simulated hospital or nursing home settings. The Health Assessment Lab includes examination tables and equipment found in ambulatory/primary care settings.

The Wegmans School of Nursing is also home to the Glover-Crask Simulation Center, a 10,400-square foot space that mirrors a hospital unit. Center features include individual simulation rooms, community space used for home care visit role-play and scenarios, control room for faculty simulation facilitation, debriefing rooms, classrooms, and faculty offices. The Simulation Center provides enhanced training and experience through the use of a Pyxis MedStation system, the leading automated medication dispensing system supporting decentralized medication management.

Student Accessibility Services

St. John Fisher College is committed to assisting students with documented disabilities who are otherwise qualified for admission to the College, in compliance with Section 504 of the 1973 Federal Rehabilitation Act and Title III of the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA, as amended). Students with documented disabilities (physical, learning, and/or psychological) who may need academic accommodations are advised to refer to the accessibility services information on the College’s website. For additional information, students may call or make an appointment with the coordinator of student accessibility services in the Student Accessibility Services Office, Kearney 300, (585) 385-5252.

Veterans Affairs

The veterans affairs certifying official, located in the Registrar’s Office, Kearney 201, provides students with information and assistance relating to veterans’ benefits and concerns. The certifying official may be contacted by phone at (585) 385-8031. For information on educational benefits and eligibility, visit the VA online at: benefits.va.gov/gibill/ or call 1 (800) 442-4551.

Writing Center

The Writing Center assist students with writing tasks from all disciplines and during all stages of the writing process. Individualized service and extensive writer participation enable students to become more skillful writers. Resources include a library of style manuals, handbooks, dictionaries, workbooks, and user-friendly handouts. Computers and printers are also available for student use during regular operating hours. Hours vary by semester. Writing Center services are free of charge to all Fisher students. “Walk-ins” are welcome but subject to tutor availability.