The Campus
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Willard's extraordinary 137-acre campus on Mount Ida, above the City of Troy, contains 30 buildings. The three oldest buildings, all of collegiate Tudor Gothic style, include a cathedral-like reading room, classrooms, offices, a main auditorium, a dance studio, a lab theater, residence halls, dining facilities, student center, study, e-cafe, and chapel. The art, music, and library complex opened in 1967.The library holds more than 32,000 volumes and 77 periodical subscriptions. Seven online databases with full text augment the journal collection. The collection also includes 196 CDs, a sizable art and architecture slide collection and the archives, which include 19th-century photographs and manuscripts and some medieval manuscripts.
Athletic facilities include a gymnasium with two basketball/volleyball/ indoor tennis courts, full facilities for fitness training and aerobic dance, a weight room, an aquatics center housing a competition-size pool, three large playing fields, and an all-weather track.
The three-story Hunter Science Center houses state of the art laboratories and teaching facilities for chemistry, biology, physics, and mathematics.
The campus is famous not only for its Gothic beauty but for its system of interconnecting underground tunnels. Approximately 75 percent of the faculty reside on campus in houses and apartments provided by the school.
