Hofstra University Resources: A Comprehensive Guide to Campus Services and Bookstore Information

Hofstra University provides a wide array of resources and services designed to support students' academic, personal, and professional growth. From academic advising and library assistance to career development and recreational facilities, Hofstra is committed to fostering a holistic and engaging campus environment. This guide offers a detailed overview of key services and facilities, with a special focus on the Hofstra University Bookstore.

Academic Support and Resources

Center for University Advising (CUA)

Located in Bernon Hall, the Center for University Advising (CUA) offers comprehensive support to students for course planning, interpreting university policies, and understanding degree audits. Students can meet with their advising dean to discuss academic challenges, seek referrals, and address issues related to transfer credits. The CUA can be reached at 516-463-6700.

Axinn Library

Axinn Library is a vital resource for academic research. Faculty librarians are available at the reference desk on the main floor for one-on-one consultations. They assist students in navigating the library's print and electronic resources, including books, journals, and databases. Students can access the Library Homepage to make research appointments or use the virtual Chat feature for remote assistance. The reference desk can be contacted at 516-463-5962.

The Center for Academic Excellence is located on the 3rd floor of Axinn Library and is dedicated to helping students achieve success in their academics and overall college experience. The phone number is 516-463-2000.

Writing Proficiency Exam

Even if students transfer in Writing Studies and Composition 001 and 002, they still need to pass the test to graduate.

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Student Life and Engagement

Campus Access and Security Systems

Located in Room 110 of the Mack Student Center, Campus Access and Security Systems is responsible for issuing ID cards and managing meal card charges. The office can be reached at 516-463-6942.

Campus Recreation

The Campus Recreation office, located in 101 Mack Fitness Center (516-463-4037), manages the Fitness Center and intramural sports, promoting student fitness and well-being.

Commuting Student Services and Community Outreach

Room 221 Mack Student Center (516-463-3469) offers services for commuter students to help them become fully involved at Hofstra.

Office of the Dean of Students

The Office of the Dean of Students, located in Room 243 Mack Student Center (516-463-6913), provides a variety of social and educational programs designed to assist students' growth and development, promotes responsible living through the PRIDE principles, and handles student disciplinary matters.

Office of Equity and Inclusion

Located in Room 102 Mason Hall (516-463-4908), Hofstra University promotes an institutional culture that values and supports diversity, equity, and inclusion. Appointments can be scheduled online.

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Center for Career Design and Development

The Center for Career Design and Development, located in 110 Weller Hall (516-463-6060), helps students with major and career exploration, interest assessments, resumes, internships, and jobs.

Hofstra University Bookstore

Location and Offerings

The Hofstra University Bookstore is located in the Mack Student Center and offers a variety of products including textbooks (downstairs), books, gifts, and spirit merchandise for the university community. The bookstore can be reached at 516-463-6654.

Textbook Rentals

The bookstore provides convenient textbook rental options, allowing students to save significantly on their course materials. The facility is dedicated to maintaining high standards for book condition upon return and encourages responsible use of rented materials with clear guidelines on acceptable wear and tear.

Payment Methods

The bookstore supports various payment methods, including financial aid, ensuring accessibility for all students.

Mack Student Center and Campus Traditions

Atrium

The atrium in the Student Center is a hub for activity, especially during the fall and spring semesters.

Events

The atrium was also the stage for Hofstra's launch of the national It's On Us campaign to prevent sexual assault, and is home to Hofstra's annual St.

Hofstra Celebrates the Holidays

Another annual tradition, Hofstra Celebrates the Holidays, takes place in the Student Center's main dining room. Student clubs and organizations paint the Student Center windows to display their interpretation of global holiday traditions.

Late Night Breakfast

Late Night Breakfast, which draws more than 1,000 students annually at the end of each semester during finals week, is served in the Student Center Café.

Directions to Sondra and David S.

Meadowbrook Parkway: to exit M4 West (Hempstead Turnpike). Hofstra is less than a mile to the west. At the third traffic light from the Meadowbrook, turn right onto North Campus. At second stop sign, bear left and park.
Travel through the Village of Hempstead: on Hempstead Turnpike. Go under the second Unispan (walk-over). At the next light, make a left onto Hofstra's North Campus. At second stop sign, bear left and park.

Data Privacy and Protection

Information Collection and Use

Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, LLC; and MBS Textbook Exchange, LLC (collectively, “BNED”, “we”, “us”, “our”), collect, use and disclose your personal information, which applies: (i) Online where this Policy is posted; (ii) in person in our stores and at our events; (iii) through our customer service channels; and (iv) in other Online and offline interactions with you.

Types of Information Collected

Information You Provide: While registration with us is optional, please keep in mind that you will not be able to use certain features of our Services unless you register for an account. You must maintain the confidentiality of your access information and are responsible for controlling access to your account. If you ever use a public computer to visit your account, we strongly encourage you to log out at the conclusion of your session.
Information Collected Automatically.
Information From External Sources: We may also collect personal information about you from external sources, including your friends, our Vendors, customers, applicable educational institution(s), and other third parties that provide information to us, including advertising networks, publicly available information and our affiliates that generally have shared management or ownership with us.

How Information is Used

BNED affiliates.
Vendors and Institutions.
Government and law enforcement authorities.
Security and safety: Where permitted by applicable law, we may disclose your personal information for the purpose of protecting the rights, property, life, health, security, and safety of BNED, our Services, our users, or any other party.
Business transactions: BNED engages in business-to-business interactions, so our personnel interact with the personnel of our customers and Vendors.

External Services

External Services: Vendors and external services may use their own tracking technologies to independently collect information about you and may solicit personal information from you (“Tracking Technologies”). For example, BNED maintains its own branded pages on various social networks.
Social Features: Certain functionalities on our Services may allow you to interact with external services, such as social networks (“Social Features”). If you use Social Features, and potentially other external services, information you post or provide access to may be publicly displayed on our Services (see “User Generated Content” section, below) or by the external services that you use. Similarly, if you post information on an external service that references our Services, e.g., by using a hashtag associated with BNED or our affiliates in a Social Feature, your information may be used on or in connection with our Services or otherwise by BNED. Also, both BNED and its customers and Vendors may have access to certain information about you, and your use of our Services and any external services.
Advertising: We may engage and work with Vendors, customers, and other parties to serve ads on our Services or on external services. Some of these ads may be tailored to your interest based on your browsing, across time, of our Services and elsewhere on the Internet, which may include use of data from cross-device usage, sometimes referred to as “interest-based advertising” or “Online behavioral advertising” (“Interest-based Advertising”), which may include sending you an ad on external services after you have left our Services i.e., “retargeting”.
Analytics: We may use Vendor tools, such as Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics, to help us analyze our performance, and to deliver Services and advertising to you. Additionally, some of the technologies used on our Services, e.g., session replay tools, allow us and our Vendors to monitor and analyze how visitors use our Services to better understand user behavior and improve our Services.

User Rights and Choices

Your Communication and Marketing Preferences.
Review, Update, or Change your Information.
Browser Settings: Because there is no consensus on how to interpret “Do Not Track” signals, our Services do not currently respond to browser Do Not Track” signals.
Self-Regulatory Advertising Organizations: Certain Vendors that perform advertising-related services on our behalf participate in voluntary programs that provide tools to opt-out of interest-based advertising, such as the Digital Advertising Alliance’s (“DAA”) Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising. We support this program, and we expect those ad networks we directly engage to serve you interest-based advertising will do so as well, although we cannot guarantee their compliance. Some of these companies are also members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”).
Mobile Device Settings: You can use mobile device settings to limit mobile Tracking Technologies and associated activities. For instance, you can adjust or reset the advertising identifiers on your mobile device in the device settings. In some cases, you can also use mobile device settings to allow or restrict the sharing of location information. If you do not share your location information, some features of our Services may not be available for use, but we may still estimate your general location based on the IP address you use to access our Services.
Vendor-Specific Tools: If you disable or remove these Tracking Technologies, some functionality on our Services may not be available nor function properly. Please be aware that, even if you are able to opt out of certain kinds of Interest-based Advertising, you may continue to receive other types of ads. In addition, we may serve ads on external services that are targeted to reach people on those services that are also identified on one of more of our databases (“Matched List Ads”). This is done by using Tracking Technologies, or by matching common factors between our databases and the databases of the third-party services. We are not responsible for these external services, including without limitation their data security.

Google’s Invisible reCAPTCHA

BNED may implement Google’s Invisible reCAPTCHA technology on our Services in order to reduce spam and prevent abuse of our Services.

User Generated Content (UGC)

Our Services may permit you to post or submit User Generated Content (“UGC”) including, without limitation, written content, user profiles, audio or visual recordings, computer graphics, pictures, data, or other content, including personal information. If you choose to submit UGC to any public area of our Services, your UGC will be considered “public” and will be accessible by anyone, including BNED. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary, unless otherwise explicitly agreed by us, personal information included in UGC is not subject to our usage or sharing limitations, or other obligations, and may be used and shared by BNED and other parties. We encourage you to exercise caution when making decisions about what you disclose in such public areas.

Children's Privacy

Children under the age of 16 are not eligible to use our Services and must not submit any personal information to us. Our Services are not intended for children under the age of 16 and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 16.

Promotions

We may offer sweepstakes, contests, and promotions (each, a “Promotion”), including any Promotion jointly or solely sponsored or offered by other parties, which may require submitting your personal information to such other parties. If you voluntarily choose to enter a Promotion, your personal information may be disclosed to BNED, Promotion co-sponsors or administrators, Vendors, and other parties, including for administrative purposes and as required by law, e.g., on a winners list. By entering, you are agreeing to the official rules that govern that Promotion, which may include consent to additional or differing privacy practices from those contained in this Policy.

Data Security

We take steps to help protect your personal information. We maintain appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to help protect personal information collected or received through our Services. Additionally, we limit access to personal information to employees and authorized parties who need to access that information to operate, develop, or improve our Services.

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

This California Consumer Privacy Act Policy and Notice at Collection (the “Notice”) describes how we collect and use personal information, and the rights that the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended (the “CCPA”), provides to California residents. This Notice does not apply to personal information collected from employees, contractors or job applicants. This Notice supplements other parts of our Policy and provides additional information for California residents.

Categories of Personal Information Collected

We collect the categories of personal information about California residents that are indicated in the chart below.

Data Retention

Except as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law or regulation, we will only retain your personal information (which includes the categories of personal information set forth in the charts and sections herein) for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, as required to satisfy any legal obligations, or as necessary to resolve disputes. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider applicable legal requirements, the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes we process your personal information for, and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means.

Sale and Sharing of Personal Information

We sell and/or share this personal information for advertising purposes to third parties. The third parties to whom this personal information was sold and/or shared are advertisers and analytics vendors.

Consumer Rights Under CCPA

Right to Deletion: You may request that we delete your personal information that we have collected directly from you and are currently maintaining. Please note, however, that we may have a legal basis for retaining certain personal information under the CCPA, despite your request.
Opt-Out of Sale/Sharing: We engage in sales and/or sharing via Tracking Technologies. You have the right to opt out of the sale and sharing of your personal information in the context of Tracking Technologies. You may also opt out of the sale and/or sharing of your personal information via Tracking Technologies through an opt-out preference signal. In order to process your request through an opt-out preference signal, you must use a browser supporting the preference signal.
Right to Correction: You may request that we correct personal information that we maintain about you if you believe such personal information is inaccurate. We may request documentation from you in connection with your request. We will also require you (or your agent) to be verified before honoring your correction requests.
Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information: You may direct us to limit the use and disclosure of your sensitive Personal Information to uses/disclosures that are reasonably necessary to provide our goods and services, or as needed: to ensure security and integrity; to prevent fraud or illegal activity; for physical safety; for short-term, transient use, including for non-personalized advertising; to perform services on behalf of the business; and to verify or maintain the quality or safety of a service or device owned, manufactured, manufactured for, or controlled by us, and to improve, upgrade, or enhance such services or devices.
Direct Marketing Information: California law permits customers in California to request certain details about how their personal information is shared with third parties, and in some cases our affiliates, if personal information is shared for those third parties’ or our affiliates’ own direct marketing purposes. We do not share personal information with third parties or our affiliates for those third parties’ or affiliates’ own direct marketing purposes.
Removal of Minor's Content: We will make a reasonably good faith effort to remove the content from prospective public view or anonymize it so the minor cannot be individually identified. However, this removal process cannot ensure complete or comprehensive deletion from the Internet.

Financial Incentives

The full terms and conditions of a Program will be set forth where the opportunity to sign up is offered. The financial incentives that we offer are reasonably related to the value of the consumer’s data. We have made a good faith estimate of the value of the consumers’ data based on relevant expenses related to the collection and retention of consumers’ personal information as part of each Program.

Privacy Laws

Privacy Laws”), that use our Services. You can learn more about the personal information we process in the “Personal Information We Collect” section and the purpose for processing such personal information in the “How We Use Your Personal Information” section. You can also learn more about our disclosure of personal information and the categories of external parties we disclose personal information to in the “How We Disclose Your Personal Information” section. We also process your personal information for Targeted Advertising.

Consumer Rights Under Privacy Laws

Opt-Out of Sale: You have the right to opt-out of the “sale” of personal information, which may overlap with your right to opt out of Targeted Advertising.
Opt-Out of Profiling: You have the right to opt out of our processing of personal information for the purposes of profiling.

Additional Information

Privacy Laws HERE for BNED-run sites. Please note that, depending on the nature of your request, you may be asked to provide information to verify your identity before your request can be processed. We currently do not “sell” covered information as “sale” is defined by such law, and we do not have plans to “sell” this information. Please review this Policy for more information about our information collection and sharing practices.

Policy Updates

From time to time, we may update this Policy and indicate changes by updating the date at the top of the Policy.

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