Maharishi University
of Management is located in Fairfield, Iowa, 50 miles west
of the Mississippi River--a few hours from Chicago, St.
Louis, Kansas City, Madison, and Minneapolis. Iowa City,
home of the University of Iowa, lies an hour to the north.
Surrounded by
woods and fields, the 272-acre campus is green and peaceful,
and notable for its attention to environmental conservation.
The campus master plan incorporates renewable energy and
state-of-the-art building technologies.
The 1.2 million
square feet of university buildings include:
The McLaughlin
Building is the home of the Department of Computer
Science.
The Student Union has a café,
bookstore, movie theatre, ballroom, video library, and campus bookstore, with its offering of texts,
gifts and fine organic foods. The Student Union Theater
hosts films and live performances, while a large downstairs
ballroom is the site of everything from Latin dance classes
to fashion shows. The upstairs lobby is filled with pool
tables and student mailboxes. The new Student Center (pictured above) will open in late 2007. This 50,000-square-foot building will be the hub of the campus. Located across from the McLaughlin Building, it will also be our campus’s most prominent structure. Here students, faculty, and staff will come together for dining, meetings, and social events. Students will also find many of the services they need in one convenient location.
The new building will include:
The Recreation Center is fully equipped with weight room, gymnastic
equipment, basketball hoops, volleyball courts, tennis courts, ping-pong
tables, track and a 28-foot rock climbing wall. Outside are outdoor tennis
courts, a soccer field and a swimming pool with an adjoining sand volleyball
court. Within a five minute walk is a two-lake reservoir, ideal for kayaking,
canoeing and windsurfing. The lakes are surrounded by a 17-mile jogging
and cycling trail.
Student Residence
Halls provide spacious, comfortable single rooms, complete
with furnishings and high-speed Internet connections. Most
residence halls are equipped with rooms for exercise, TV
and recreation including billiards and table tennis. The
University is in the process of designing its first "green"
student housing development, fully non-toxic buildings with
earth-friendly energy and water systems. Computer Professionals
Program students may choose to live and take meals off campus.
Family homes are available in the 200-unit Utopia Park,
and housing can also be found throughout the surrounding
city of Fairfield.
Annapurna Dining
Hall has received widespread recognition for pioneering
delicious, organic vegetarian campus dining. The menu is
almost entirely organic and is cooked fresh daily. Entrees
include pizza, enchiladas, Chinese stir-fry, and Indian
peas with panir. Organic mango ice cream, made from the
milk of local cows, is a favorite in summertime. The dining
hall always offers a salad bar, organic fruits, granola,
teas and milk. Food is prepared without the use of onions
and garlic. Students are free to bring their own condiments.
The Main Library includes more than 140,000 volumes, 60 reference
databases, 7000 electronic books and more than 12,000 full-text periodicals.
The library also maintains a campus-wide closed-circuit television network
with over 10,000 hours of videotaped and audiotaped courses, conferences
and presentations. Additional facilities include a multimedia computer
lab, network plug-in ports for laptop users, the campus art gallery and
support for international distance education students.
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