What about Shriver Center?

Completed in 1957 and originally named the University Center, the Shriver Center remains and will remain a valuable asset to the Miami community. However, despite the construction of two additions and a variety of other renovations since it was built, the more-than 50-year old facility has been rapidly outgrown by a student body that has nearly tripled in size.

Still more of a ‘university center’ than a student center, much of the Shriver Center’s space is dedicated to community-wide resources like the University Bookstore, 1809 Room, and the coveted Multi-Purpose Rooms and Heritage Room, which are in high demand by the campus and Oxford communities.

Students receive no priority in reserving the spaces within the Shriver Center and have little space they can call their own. Other student needs not being met include:

• Less than 20% of Miami’s more-than 350 student organizations can be accommodated within the Shriver Center.

• The dining area is overcrowded during peak times and limited in the selections that today’s students have come to expect.

• There is little space for group meetings and studying – a campus-wide dilemma

• The Shriver Center is outmoded and lacks the technology required by today’s students.

• There are almost no spaces for social interaction or recreation

• Most of the Shriver Center’s services close by 10 p.m., failing to accommodate the 24/7 lifestyle of today’s students.