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 main dining location on campus is Ward-Haffey Dining Hall. It is open seven days a week and offers dine-in “all-you-care-to-eat” meals as well as Ozzi takeout meals.
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.
Fisher Dining offers two meal exchange locations for student board meals. The Fisher Sub Shoppe in Murphy residential hall, offers subs made to order along with sides and beverages. A bagel bar is offered for breakfast including bagel sandwiches, beverages and sides. Breakfast is available 5 days a week and lunch and dinner Monday – Thursday. Located in Michaelhouse, the SONO Grill features our Latin American cuisine, simple, fresh and made to your specifications. SONO is opened five days a week.
The Pioch Commons Café offers a convenient Grab & Go location featuring Finger Lakes Coffees, and favorites from Cyber Cafe. Open five days a week.
Information Technology
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.
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, Macs, 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.
eSports Gaming Lab
The eSports Gaming Lab in Michaelhouse has gaming PCs as well as PlayStation, Xbox and Switch consoles, with a variety of titles available to play. Hours are posted in the lab, and access is available to all students via card-swipe.
Library
The Charles J. Lavery Library meets the information needs of 21st-Century students. A blend of traditional and electronic resources covering a broad range of subjects is available to the Fisher community. The library’s print collection is complemented by an extensive offering of online scholarly resources available at Lavery Library. Information resources include over 385,000 volumes and access to approximately 60,000 print and electronic periodicals.
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.
Research Assistance
Professional librarians welcome students to the Research Help Desk during day and evening hours, answering questions via phone, email, and videoconferencing. Our librarians are information specialists committed to the academic success of all students. Their schedule is supplemented by a 24/7 Chat-with-a-Librarian service, so students can get assistance with their research whenever they need it.
Learning Commons
The Learning Commons supports student learning, research, and use of technology. Students are able to conduct research and produce projects in one location, steps away from a Help Desk staffed by technology students and Librarians. In the Learning Commons, students have access to PC workstations, Macintosh multimedia workstations, and group workstations. Throughout the library there are additional PC workstations as well as Wi-Fi. Students may also borrow laptops at the Checkout Desk for short-term use in the library.
K-12 Resource Center
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 NYS 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.
Instruction
Librarians welcome opportunities for instructing groups or individuals and offer current instruction in the use of all types of information sources. Classes in information literacy are taught in all subject areas using hands-on techniques and active learning.
Interlibrary Services
Lavery Library Interlibrary Loan is a free service provided to the Fisher community. The library is a member of the Rochester Regional Library Council, which represents a collection of more than 3,400,000 titles. We are also a member of the IDS Project, which represents the collections of over 110 academic libraries. Lavery Library works within these two associations to swiftly provide quality resources not owned by this library. Lavery Library’s Interlibrary Loan service also extends beyond the region to obtain resources from national and international libraries.
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 experiential learning opportunities to develop technical, assessment, and critical thinking skills that prepare them for the competencies required to provide advanced practice nursing care in clinical practice sites. The facility contains two major nursing laboratories. The Nursing Skills Lab is a skills laboratory equipped with healthcare related equipment, supplies and computers for electronic documentation, Medium fidelity simulation mannequins for practice of technical skills in a simulated hospital or nursing home setting. The Health Assessment Lab includes examination tables, supplies and diagnostic equipment found in the 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 simulations, primary care space and a control room for faculty simulation facilitation, debriefing rooms, classrooms, and faculty offices. The Glover-Crask Simulation Center provides students with access to a high-fidelity electronic health record to teach and reinforce electronic documentation, order entry and EHR processes.
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 or by email : veteranservices@sjfc.edu. For additional resources for veterans, military students or their families please Student Financial Services web page. For more information on Veteran Education benefit eligiblity, visist 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.