Spaces

Your Home Away from Home

At MOSAIC, our goal is to provide a space that students feel a sense of home and belongingness. Our students, staff, and faculty fellows all work hard to provide a space where folks feel like they can chat about anything and engage in dialogue about the world around them.

Located on level one of the Compean Diaz Student Union (right across from the university bookstore), MOSAIC is open Monday-Thursday 9:00am-6:00pm and Friday 9:00am-5:00pm. You will find many students, studying, hanging out, meditating/praying, and conversing about issues that affect our society in MOSAIC.

Front Desk 

When you walk in, please scan or input your Tower ID. You can find out what is happening in MOSAIC by chatting with one of our friendly student assistants. This is also where you can request free prints and scantrons! 

Mosaic Lounge

Find a comfy seat on a couch or pick a table to study, eat lunch or play a game! The lounge is open to all of our SJSU students and community.

Reserving the Mosaic Lounge

MOSAIC offers the front lounge area with flexible setup, which can accommodate up to 60 people. This space is used by Registered Student Organizations and campus departments for workshops, dialogue sessions, movie screenings, guest speakers, and more! 

To request a reservation, please fill out this online reservation request form.

• How do reservations work?
  • • All requests are on a first come first served basis. 
    • Submitting a request does not gurantee that you will be able to reserve the space. 
    • All requests are reviewed by our staff at our weekly staff meetings. You must submit your reservation the WEDNESDAY (for Spring 2025) before your event in order for it to be approved on time. Please use your best judgement on when to submit the form. For example, if you'd like to host an event on a Thursday, submitting the request the Wednesday before the event would not give you enough time to promote the event, so you should submit it two Wednesdays in advance.)
    • Staff will follow up with you after your reservation request has been submitted to confirm if it has been approved. 
• Who can reserve the Mosaic Lounge? 

  • The lounge may only be reserved by SJSU registered student organizations (RSOs) or SJSU staff and faculty. 

    Non-SJSU community organizations may request to reserve the space, but will require a meeting with Mosaic professional staff before the event if this is your first time. 

    The maximum capacity for the Lounge is 60 individuals. Please consider other spaces on campus if you expect more than 60 people. 

• What can I reserve the Mosaic Lounge for? 
  • • The lounge can be reserved for events, including workshops, special class sessions, community building socials, etc, hosted by SJSU RSOs, staff, and faculty. Students may not reserve the lounge for personal purposes (ie, hanging out with friends)
    • In order to ensure that the lounge can be used by all during normal class times, reservation requests for peak lounge use hours (12-3PM daily) will be honored sparingly.
    • All events taking place at the Mosaic Cross Cultural Center must abide by our community standards listed in the next section of the form. Groups who repeatedly dishonor our community standards will not be allowed to make a reservation in the future.

Conference Room 

Looking for a private room to study, attend a Zoom class, or host a group project meeting? Reserve our conference room! Reservations are available on a first-come, first-served basis in 1-hour time blocks at the top of every hour. Students may reserve up to four hours at a time. Please note that the conference room is unavailable when we are hosting events or having our staff meetings. 

Make a conference room reservation!

Prayer & Meditation Room

Mosaic offers a private, non-denominational prayer and meditation room that is open to our SJSU community members of all faiths and practices. The space is equipped with washing stations (wudu) as well! 

As of Fall 2024, SJSU now has a new prayer space, complete with temporary washing stations and gendered facilities, located in the BBC complex. Tower Card is needed for keypad access. This space was a result of years of student, staff, and faculty advocacy for improved prayer and meditation facilities, and we are so excited that it finally open!