Campus Center and Resources

Campus Center

The Shirley L. and Mildred Garrison United Methodist Campus Center

Construction is underway on the $25+ million expansion of the Garrison Campus Center. The new modernized student center is scheduled to open in spring 2024. The expansion adds a second floor and increases the square footage from 39,000 to 58,000. The center will feature welcoming common spaces providing students with a place where they can come together. Features include:

Carlton Chapel: Central to McMurry’s identity as a United Methodist university, the chapel will be enlarged to meet the spiritual needs of our students, faculty, and staff.

Community Area & Kitchenette: A base for students who live off campus or take evening classes to heat a meal, catch the news, or recharge.

Esports Center: A new campus home for McMurry’s competitive esports team, the Esports Center will also be used to support academic programs.

Fitness & Wellness Center: With both exercise equipment and a multipurpose studio, this 5,000-square-foot center will be McMurry’s first comprehensive fitness and wellness facility.

Student Gathering Areas: Expanded and enhanced indoor and outdoor spaces for studying in groups or alone, cocurricular activities, or simply hanging out with friends.

Student Leadership Suite: Designed for student government and other leadership programs, clubs, interest groups, and more.

Spirit Store: Offering McMurry apparel, gifts, and a selection of other study essentials. Online Store is now open!

War Hawk Success Center: Centralization of services including first-year programming, test prep, advising, career development, and more.

The Shirley L. & Mildred Garrison United Methodist Campus Center

Completed in the fall of 1979, the Campus Center is a $22 million structure located in the center of McMurry’s campus. The Campus Center is a partially underground structure with grassy slopes rising around its walls. This structure is used for a wide variety of activities. Weekly campus worship services are held in its chapel, dances are held in its huge ballroom, students’ free time may be spent in the snack bar and game room. The Campus Center was renovated in 2001 to include new carpet in the ballroom, new furniture, and carpeting in the Windjammer’s lounge.

The Campus Center, as both a building and a concept, supports and augments the educational mission of the university by projecting classroom learning into the sphere of human experience.

The Campus Center hours are Sunday through Saturday, 24 hours daily, except in the Summer.

During student center construction, services located in Garrison Student Center have been relocated.

Chapel: September through May; Tuesdays 11 a.m. Matthews Auditorium on first floor of Old Main

Counseling Services: Located in President Building on first floor

Dean of Students: Located in President Building on first floor

Event Services: Located second floor of west side of Radford

Health Center: Located in President Building on first floor

McMurry Student Government Office: Jay-Rollins Library second floor

Post Office and Print Shop: First floor of President Building; Open Monday through Friday 8 am. to 5 p.m.

Religious and Spiritual Life: Located on west side of Radford second floor

Residential Life: Old Main; Suite 305A

Security: Located in President Building on first floor

Spirit Shop: First floor of President Building: Open Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Online Store is now open!

Student Life: First floor of President Building

War Hawk Success Center: Ryan Fine Arts Building off main lobby on north corridor

The old Nest getting demoed.

Demo of the Post Office and Sports Grill.

Old book store / Spirit store demoed.

Mabee Room demo.

Demo of the Presidents Dinning Room.

Housing and Spiritual Life offices demoed.

Mabee room looking out into the courtyard.

Inside the Nest demo.

Cutting the floor for new plumbing installation.

Cuts in the floor.

Pouring new walls.

New addition for storing event equipment.

New footings being installed to support second floor.

Filling in the old courtyard.

Inside view of courtyard being filled.

Preparations for more filling.

More areas filled.

Forms are being built for the pouring of the new loading dock for the Campus Center and Dining Hall.

Courtyard cement pouring finished.

This will be one of the new entrances that will pass by the new Sprit Store.

New plumbing for the kitchen in the Food Court.

Future Wellness Center

New Elevator

Future ESport Room

Future Food Court

Grease Trap Installation

Student Leadership Offices

Carlton Chapel Entrance

New addition on the Northeast side that will be chair and table storage.

Campus Center Steel has started arriving. We should start seeing things go up soon.

Pouring concrete for the Northwest entrance.

Electrical units are starting to be added to the Mechanical Room

Loading Dock concrete pouring

Loading Dock concrete pouring

Steel began to rise today.

Mason contractors almost finished.

First floor almost complete.

Campus Center Bird's Eye View

Back loading dock on the west side of the building.

Beginning to hang some sheet rock on the upper parts of the walls.

Middle of the Campus Center

Tile on the wall of the restrooms.

Wellness Center Multipurpose Room

Post Office/Print Shop windows

Entrance to ESport

Northwest Entrance into the Student Center

Ceiling of the middle section

Ceiling of the middle section with the stairway ready to be installed.

Contractors are installing the stairs to the second floor of the Student Center

Last beam being placed.

Scaffolding in the dance hall going up.

Scaffolding floor installed. This will allow multiple people to do the required work on the inside ceiling.

Campus Center Entrance

President Dining Room on the second floor, above the main entrance.

Northwest Entrance by the Dining Hall

One of the Restrooms

ESports

Post Office and Print Shop

The Nest

Mabee Room, which was one room, will now be able to be divided into four separate rooms.

Central Gathering area facing west

Central Gathering area facing East

Commuters Kitchen

Mabee room kitchen with a new walk in cooler.

Main Gathering area.

Fire Suppression pumps located in Mabee Dining Kitchen

Post Office cabinets getting installed.

Elevator installation.

This is the central gathering space. You will see the McM as you come in the front doors.

This is the elevator that was installed last week. They are closing-in the outside of it.

New sidewalks along the north side of the building and the northwest entrance.

New sidewalks along the north side of the building and the northwest entrance.

Counters, sinks and faucets are being installed in the bathrooms.

Staging area in Meeting room #1 and #2.

Student Affairs Suite Meeting room doors have been installed. Note they will be sliding doors instead of swinging doors.

Success Coaches office suite.

Four meeting rooms on the second floor.

Area for commuters to bring their lunch.

Food court tile installation.

Starbucks back wall.

Ceiling tile and lighting being installed in the Nest.

CAB offices getting ceiling tile, lights, and cabinets installed.

Sound Panels are being installed.

Flooring is starting to be installed in the hallway by the Fitness Center and restrooms.

Front Entrance is starting to take shape.

Gathering area, this picture is taken from the second floor looking down on to the central gathering area.

Food Court tile is currently being installed.

Floor tile installation.

Second floor carpet has all been installed.

Front entrance: This is a 3000 lbs. granite logo.

Kitchen equipment is on site and getting installed.

President Board room carpet has been installed.

Student Success Center carpet has been installed.

Ceiling tiles have been installed along with lighting in the Nest.

The lighting and carpet has been installed in Carleton Chapel.

When the food court and Starbucks are closed these will be the panels that you will see.

Backyard sidewalk getting poured.

Backyard sidewalk getting poured.

Counters have been installed along with the kitchen equipment in the food court.

Starbucks counters have been installed.

We had a lot of furniture delivered last week, and it’s being stored in the Student Gathering area.

Booth seating on the second floor.

Reception area for Student Affairs and Spiritual Life.

This will be MSG’s office space.

Spirit Store entrance, you can see how the front doors will be able to open.

Fitness Center equipment getting installed.

Fitness Center equipment getting installed.

Fitness Center equipment getting installed.

Fitness Center equipment getting installed.

Food court grills and service area.

New lighting getting installed in the entrance.

Student Success and Student Affairs sliding office doors.

Student Success and Student Affairs sliding office doors.

Main gathering area seating installation.

Starbucks service area.

The foundation and sidewalks have been poured on the west side of Mabee Dining for the outdoor trellis.

Graphics on the second floor wall outside the upstairs kitchen.

Mabee room lights have been installed. Ceiling tiles will be completed soon.

The package lockers for the Post Office have been installed and wrapped.

Another set of package lockers.

Graphics outside the Spirit Store.

The mill work is completed on the central gathering and it will be varnished next week.

IT is in the process of running miles and miles of data wires.

Office of MSG

The Backyard trellis is on site and will be installed after the first of the year.

The trellis installation has started.

Installation of the blinds for the second floor.

Carpet in the central gathering area is complete.

Housing directors area.

Stage installation is complete. The new stage can be folded out as needed.

More office furniture is getting installed.

Reception area in front of the Student Affairs and RSL suites.

Second floor furniture.

Central gathering area.

Esports

Fitness & Wellness Center

Mabee room

Nest

North Entry

Stairs

Main Entry

Front of campus center

The Backyard Trellis is complete and furniture installed. It has seating for 52 along with tables. As you look at the picture the shade portion can be either open or closed. There is also lighting for night time events.

Installation of the turf on the Amphitheater levels.

Campus Center & Resources

Campus Center

Coming in 2024 - New Campus Center

The Shirley L. and Mildred Garrison United Methodist Campus Center

History

The Shirley L. & Mildred Garrison United Methodist Campus Center

What's in the Campus Center?

During student center construction, services located in Garrison Student Center have been relocated.

Campus Center Renovation