Sierra Nevada University’s campus fosters a vibrant community, actively engaged in learning and living.
Upcoming Events
July 5
Independence Day Holiday Observed 2021
August 8
Summer Semester End 2021
August 13 – August 22
MFA Creative Writing and Interdisciplinary Arts Residencies, Summer 2021
September 25 – September 26
Writers in the Woods - Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Campus Services
Campus Facilities
The campus takes full advantage of our spectacular location, tucked between the shore of Lake Tahoe and the Sierra Nevada high country.
Tall windows, open plan layouts, and exposed timber bring our natural environment indoors. Facilities include two residence halls, a dining hall, and a spacious open-plan library.
Prim Library
The library has more than 30,000 books, and documents, as well as access to extensive online resources, including periodical databases, EBSCO full-text journal articles and eBooks, the Gale Virtual Reference Library, and research guides. There are areas for both quiet study and collaboration, public use computers with internet access, and printers, and a walk-in tutoring center. The building also houses Undergraduate Admissions, administrative offices, classrooms, faculty offices, and the IT department.
The Poetry Center focuses on contemporary American poetry, with readings, workshops, and a collection of over 2,500 rare and hard to find volumes.
The Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences
The Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences actively integrates sustainability into the college community’s daily life. Sierra Nevada University and UC Davis have partnered on this LEED certified building containing spacious classrooms, laboratories, and offices. UC Davis’s Tahoe Science Center, a locus for research into solutions for the problems created by developmental pressures on fragile ecosystems, provides internship opportunities for SNU Tahoe science students.
Patterson Dining Hall
The dining hall serves delicious, fresh food, with vegetarian and vegan options at every meal, salad bar and grill, housemade desserts, and recipes from around the world. Locally sourced food is used when possible.
Holman Arts & Media Center
HAMC’s large, open studios and up-to-date audio, video, and digital arts labs provide ample resources for students to explore their artistic practice, from traditional genres to performance art and new media. The five exhibition spaces on campus – three in HAMC and two in Prim – bring cutting edge exhibitions to enrich the visual and intellectual environment on campus, and give students ample opportunities to showcase their own work.
The Residence Halls
The Campbell-Friedman and Prim-Schultz are more a safe place to sleep at night! All dorm residents have access to lounge and game rooms, wireless internet, cable hook-up, vending machines, laundry machines, private bathrooms, lockers for extra storage, and a personal mailbox.
It’s a Wired World
The entire campus is covered by a wireless network with high-speed (T1) internet access. Most offices, classrooms, and dorm rooms also have direct Ethernet ports. The IT infrastructure provides network accounts, email services, and printer access. Students are expected to bring their own laptops. Free student subscriptions to Microsoft Office software is available through your student email.