About the Student Center
The Student Center serves as a gathering place for students, alumni, faculty and staff. The facilities that comprise the Student Center include the Rice Memorial Center (RMC), built through the generosity of friends and alumni and dedicated on Homecoming weekend in 1958. The Rice Memorial Chapel, built through the generosity of the Rayzor family, was dedicated at the same time. The Ley Student Center (LSC) was added later to the west end of the building through similar generosity by the Ley family in honor of their parents, and was dedicated in 1986. The Student Center offers educational, cultural and social programs fostering personal growth and development in a comfortable, clean and safe environment. The Center encourages student-directed activity, the free exchange of ideas and appreciation of cultural diversity.
Our Mission
The Student Center is a gathering place for the campus where a sense of community can be developed
among students, faculty, staff, alumni, and friends of Rice University. It provides the Rice
community a clean, safe and comfortable place to pursue interests outside the classroom in a
relaxing atmosphere. The Student Center houses many of the largest student-led, campus-wide
organizations that help enrich Rice University.
As one of its priorities, the Student Center promotes student-led programming that fosters the
appreciation of diversity in all its forms. The Student Center Development program empowers
students from around the campus to interact and lead on a daily basis.
The Student Center aims to provide services, and events that lead to increased interaction between
Rice and the Houston community, between the graduate students and undergraduate students, and
between the residential colleges. The Student Center will continue to meet the needs of the
changing Rice environment while upholding these goals and priorities.
The Student Center is a department within the Division of Student Affairs.
Rice University is a proud member of the Association of College Unions International.
